Microsoft announced earlier this month (July 2025) that the Reuse Slides button will be removed from the PowerPoint ribbon. Why? We’re assuming usage analytics showed this feature was collecting dust, but it’s also possible that Microsoft could be implementing a new reuse system – we just don’t know!
If you aren’t familiar with the Reuse Slides button, you’re not alone. Here’s where to find it (until tomorrow):
It opens a menu within PowerPoint that allows you to pull slides from any deck on your computer, SharePoint, or OneDrive to use in the presentation you’re working on.
You may ask, “is this different from just copying and pasting with ‘Keep Source Formatting?'”
Technically, yes, but the result is the same. Slides from another deck are added to the current deck. The key difference is that Reuse Slides doesn’t require another deck to be open as it’s all done within its own interface in PowerPoint. And if “Reuse Slides” is part of your workflow, be prepared that you’ll now need to go find the other presentation, open the presentation, select the slides, copy the slides, paste the slides into the current presentation.
We feel most people have two or more decks open and simply copy-paste slides as needed as opposed to using the “Reuse Slides” button. However, after today, July 31, 2025, when the “Reuse Slides” button disappears from PowerPoint, everyone will be using the copy/paste method!
-The TLC Creative Design Team