您是否有多个PowerPoint演示文稿需要合并或合并到一个演示文稿中？我自己必须这样做几次，合并演示文稿时最重要的方面之一是您是要保持插入演示文稿的格式和主题，还是让它与主要演示文稿的主题相匹配。(format and theme)第二个最重要的因素是您是否需要维护可能包含在插入的演示文稿中的任何动画和过渡。
根据您希望插入的幻灯片在主演示文稿中的显示方式，您需要在两种不同的方法之间进行选择以加入演示文稿。在本文中，我将提到这两种方法以及每种方法的优缺点。
第一种方法使用PowerPoint中的(PowerPoint)重用幻灯片(Reuse Slides)选项，第二种方法使用插入对象(Insert Object)选项。
重用幻灯片方法
如果您希望插入的幻灯片与主演示文稿的主题相匹配，那么您必须使用“重用幻灯片”选项(Reuse Slides option)。插入的幻灯片将与外部演示文稿中的幻灯片完全相同，并将它们添加到主演示文稿中。
但是，有一个很大的警告：不会保留任何动画或过渡。您在正常查看模式下(viewing mode)在幻灯片上看到的任何内容都将导入到主演示文稿中。
如果您需要维护所有动画或过渡，请跳到Insert Object 方法(Insert Object method)。
要开始使用此方法，请打开主演示文稿，然后在要导入幻灯片的两张幻灯片之间单击。值得一提的是(worth nothing)，此方法还允许您从外部演示文稿中选择要插入的幻灯片，而Insert Object 方法(Insert Object method)将插入整个演示文稿。
现在单击“插入(Insert)”菜单，然后单击“新建幻灯片(New Slide)”一词 ，您将看到一个 菜单出现(menu appear)。该菜单的最底部是一个名为Reuse Slides的选项。
当您单击它时(hand side)，右侧会出现一个选项卡。单击(Click)“浏览(Browse)”按钮，然后选择“浏览文件(Browse File)” 。 如果要保留外部演示文稿的主题和文本格式，请选中保留源格式框。(Keep source formatting)
如果您取消选中该框，那么当您将幻灯片插入主演示文稿时，将不会保留原始格式。相反，幻灯片将使用主演示文稿的主题和格式(theme and formatting)。
选择要插入的PowerPoint 演示文稿，然后单击“确定”。(PowerPoint Presentation)立即，您应该会看到一个小缩略图和显示的每张幻灯片的标题。
正如您在上面看到的，第二个演示文稿的主题与我的第一个演示文稿不同。此时您可以做很多事情。首先，如果您只想从外部演示文稿中插入一张或几张幻灯片，只需单击幻灯片，它就会被插入！
格式将取决于您是否像我上面解释的那样选中了保留源格式(Keep source formatting)框。如下所示，我只插入了外部演示文稿中的一张幻灯片并保留了源格式(source formatting)。
它将插入您之前用红线单击的任何位置。如果要插入所有幻灯片，只需选择右键单击任何幻灯片时出现的Insert All Slide选项。(s option)
最后，您可以通过右键单击并选择(right-clicking and choosing) Apply Theme to All Slides将外部演示文稿中使用的主题应用于主演示文稿。这会将外部演示主题(presentation theme)应用于主演示。
如前所述，使用此方法时会丢失所有动画、效果、过渡等。现在让我们谈谈合并两个演示文稿的另一种方式。
插入对象方法
第二种方法将整个外部演示文稿作为对象插入到一张幻灯片中。然后，您必须配置一些设置，以便在运行幻灯片时，它还可以运行外部演示文稿中的所有幻灯片。
在我们进入如何使用这个方法之前，有几件事需要提到：
1. 当您将演示文稿作为对象插入时，它不是指向演示文稿的链接，而是实际完整副本到主演示文稿中。这意味着，如果您在将外部演示文稿插入主演示文稿后稍后打开它并对其进行更改，这些更改将不会反映在主演示文稿内的导入版本中。
2. 如果您确实想对已插入的演示文稿进行更改，您可以在主演示文稿中对其进行编辑。同样(Again)，这些更改仅对主演示文稿中的版本进行。
在我看来，这种方法比Reuse Slides 方法(Reuse Slides method)要好，因为它可以让您保留所有动画和过渡，并且可以更改或保留插入演示文稿的主题。
首先，打开主演示文稿，然后插入一张新幻灯片。确保(Make)删除新幻灯片上的所有默认文本(default text)框或其他任何内容，使其完全空白。
现在单击“插入(Insert)”选项卡，然后单击“对象(Object)” 。
选择从文件创建(Create from file)单选按钮并单击浏览(Browse)按钮。选择要插入主演示文稿的外部演示文稿。
您现在将看到演示文稿的第一张幻灯片作为可选对象插入。所有其他幻灯片都在那里，但您只是看不到它们。
下一步是将光标移动到插入对象的左上角，直到它变成一个双向箭头。单击(Click)然后将角拖动到主幻灯片的左上角。现在对对象的右下角执行相同的操作，并将其拖动到主幻灯片的右下角。
现在插入的对象应该与插入它的幻灯片的大小完全相同。您希望这样做，以便在播放演示文稿时幻灯片的大小不会发生任何变化。
设置完成后，我们必须配置第二个演示文稿，以便在我们点击插入演示文稿的幻灯片时播放。为此，请选择对象，单击“动画(Animations)”功能区，单击“添加动画(Add Animation)”，然后一直滚动到显示OLE Action Verbs的底部。
将弹出另一个对话框，您要选择Show。如果您此时要播放演示文稿，您会注意到，当您到达插入演示文稿的幻灯片时，它将显示插入演示文稿中的所有幻灯片，但它还将包括第一张幻灯片的静止幻灯片插入的演示文稿的正面和背面(front and back)。
这对我来说有点烦人，幸运的是你几乎可以摆脱它。首先(First)，再次单击Animations，然后单击Animation Pane，它将显示在右侧。
在Animation Pane中，您将看到插入的对象列为 Object 1 或Object 2等，当您选择它时，会出现一个黑色的小箭头，您可以单击它。这将显示一些选项，然后您要选择的第一个选项是Start With Previous。
现在，当您播放演示文稿时，它不会向您显示第一张幻灯片的静止图像，而是实际播放外部演示文稿中的第一张幻灯片。要在演示结束时摆脱静止图像，您必须从上面的菜单中选择效果选项(Effect Options)，然后从动画后( After animation)下拉框中选择动画后隐藏。(Hide After Animation)
它并不完美，因为它仍然向您显示插入的演示文稿在演示文稿结束之前放置一次的空白幻灯片。幸运(Luckily)的是，我也找到了一个非常有效的简单技巧。只需(Simply)将一些内容添加到具有外部演示对象（如文本框(text box)或您喜欢的任何内容）的幻灯片中，然后右键单击该对象并选择Send to Back。
这将有效地将对象隐藏在演示对象(presentation object)后面。现在，当您播放演示文稿时，它将在最后一张幻灯片之后隐藏演示文稿对象(presentation object)，因为这是我们在After Animation选项中选择的。隐藏演示对象(presentation object)时，您将看到隐藏在其下的所有内容。这是避免在演示过程中出现空白幻灯片的好方法。
我想提到的最后一件事是关于编辑插入的演示文稿。您可以右键单击对象上的任意位置并选择演示文稿对象 - 编辑(Presentation Object – Edit)以直接在主演示文稿中编辑插入演示文稿中的任何幻灯片。
希望对于想要将一个PowerPoint 演示文稿(PowerPoint presentation)合并、组合或插入另一个演示文稿的任何人来说，这是一个足够详细的教程。如果您有任何问题，请随时发表评论。享受！
How to Combine Multiple PowerPoint Presentations
Do yoυ have multiple PowerPoint presentations that yоu need to cоmbine or merge into one presentation? I’ve had to do this myself a couple of times and one of the most important аspeсts when merging preѕentations iѕ whether you want to maintain the format and theme of the insertеd presentatіon or have it matсh the theme of the main presentation. The second most important factоr is whether you need to maintain аnу animations and transitions that might be included in the іnserted presentаtion.
Depending on how you want the inserted slides to appear in the main presentation, you will need to choose between two different methods for joining the presentations. In this article, I’ll mention both methods along with the advantages and disadvantages for each method.
The first method uses the Reuse Slides option in PowerPoint and the second method uses the Insert Object option.
Reuse Slides Method
If you want the inserted slides to match the theme of your main presentation, then you have to use the Reuse Slides option. The inserted slides will simply take the slides exactly as they are in the external presentation and add them to the main presentation.
However, there is one big caveat: none of the animations or transitions will be carried over. Whatever you see on the slide in the normal viewing mode is what will get imported into the main presentation.
If you need to maintain all the animations or transitions, then skip down to the Insert Object method.
To get started with this method, open the main presentation and then click between the two slides you want to import the slides into. It’s worth nothing that this method also lets you pick and choose which slides you want to insert from an external presentation, whereas the Insert Object method will insert the entire presentation.
Now click on the Insert menu and then click on the words New Slide and you’ll see a menu appear. At the very bottom of that menu is an option called Reuse Slides.
When you click on that, a tab will appear on the right hand side. Click on the Browse button and then select Browse File. Check the Keep source formatting box if you want keep the theme and text formatting of the external presentation.
If you uncheck that box, then when you go to insert the slides into the main presentation, the original formatting will not be kept. Instead the slides will use the theme and formatting of the main presentation.
Select the PowerPoint Presentation you want to insert and then click OK. Immediately, you should see a small thumbnail and the title of each slide displayed.
As you can see above, the second presentation has a different theme than my first presentation. There are a number of things you can do at this point. Firstly, if you just want to insert one slide or a couple of slides from your external presentation, simply click on the slide and it will be inserted!
The formatting will depend on whether you checked the Keep source formatting box like I explained above. As shown below, I inserted just one slide from the external presentation and kept the source formatting.
It will be inserted wherever you had clicked earlier with the red line. If you want to insert all the slides, just select the Insert All Slides option that comes up when you right-click on any of the slides.
Lastly, you can apply the theme used in the external presentation to your main presentation by right-clicking and choosing Apply Theme to All Slides. This will apply the external presentation theme to the main presentation.
As mentioned earlier, you lose all animations, effects, transitions, etc when using this method. Now let’s talk about the other way to merge two presentations.
Insert Object Method
The second method will insert the entire external presentation into one slide as an object. You then have to configure some settings so that when you run your slideshow, it also runs through all the slides in the external presentation.
There are a couple of things that need to be mentioned before we get into how to use this method:
1. When you insert the presentation as an object, it is not a link to the presentation, but an actual full copy into the main presentation. This means that if you open the external presentation later after inserting it into the main presentation and make changes to it, those changes will not be reflected in the imported version inside the main presentation.
2. If you do want to make changes to an already inserted presentation, you can edit it inside the main presentation. Again, those changes are only made to the version inside the main presentation.
In my opinion, this method is better than the Reuse Slides method because it lets you keep all your animations and transitions and it allows you to change or keep the theme of the inserted presentation.
To get started, open the main presentation and then insert a new slide. Make sure to delete any default text boxes or anything else on the new slide so that it is completely blank.
Now click on the Insert tab and then click on Object.
Select the Create from file radio button and click the Browse button. Select the external presentation you want to insert into your main presentation.
You’ll now see the first slide of the presentation inserted as a selectable object. All of the other slides are there, but you just can’t see them.
The next step is to move your cursor to the upper left corner of the inserted object until it turns into a double sided arrow. Click and then drag the corner to the upper left corner of the main slide. Now do the same thing with the bottom right corner of the object and drag it to the bottom right corner on the main slide.
Now the inserted object should be the exact same size as the slide that it was inserted onto. You want to do this so that there won’t be any change in the size of the slides when you are playing the presentation.
Once that is setup, we have to configure the second presentation to play when we hit that slide that we inserted the presentation into. To do this, select the object, click on the Animations ribbon, click on Add Animation and then scroll all the way to the bottom where it says OLE Action Verbs.
Another dialog will pop up and you want to choose Show. If you were to play the presentation at this point, you would notice that when you reach the slide with the inserted presentation, it will show all the slides in the inserted presentation, but it will also include a still slide of the first slide at the front and back of the inserted presentation.
This was kind of annoying to me and luckily you can almost get rid of it. First, click on Animations again and then click on Animation Pane, which will show up at the right.
In the Animation Pane, you will see the inserted object listed as Object 1 or Object 2, etc. and when you select it, there will be a small black arrow you can click on. This will bring up a few options and then first one you want to select is Start With Previous.
Now when you play the presentation, it won’t show you that still image of the first slide but will actually play the first slide from the external presentation. To get rid of the still image at the end of the presentation, you have to select Effect Options from the menu above and then select Hide After Animation from the After animation dropdown box.
It’s not perfect because it still shows you the empty slide that the inserted presentation was put once before the presentation ends. Luckily, I found a simple hack for this too that works really well. Simply add something to the slide that has the external presentation object like a text box or whatever you like and then right-click on the object and choose Send to Back.
This will effectively hide the object behind the presentation object. Now when you play your presentation, it will hide the presentation object after the last slide because that is what we chose in the After animation option. When the presentation object is hidden, you’ll see any content that was hidden under it. It’s a great way to avoid having that blank slide show up during the presentation.
One last thing I wanted to mention was about editing the inserted presentation. You can right-click anywhere on the object and choose Presentation Object – Edit to edit any slide in the inserted presentation directly within the main presentation.
Hopefully, this was a detailed enough tutorial for anyone wanting to merge, combine or insert one PowerPoint presentation into another. If you have any questions, feel free to comment. Enjoy!
