How to Duplicate Slides in PowerPoint: Step-by-Step Guide

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Learn how to duplicate one or multiple slides in your PowerPoint project

Co-authored by Christopher Batchelor and Nicole Levine, MFA

Last Updated: March 19, 2024

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This wikiHow teaches you how to create copies of slides in PowerPoint for Windows and macOS. Duplicating a slide is as easy as right-clicking it and selecting Duplicate. Once you duplicate a slide, you can move the slide anywhere in the presentation by dragging it up or down in the left panel.

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Click and select the slide(s) you want to duplicate.
Right-click the slide(s) to open the menu.
Click Duplicate Slide.

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To do so, either double-click the .PPTX, .PPTM, or .PPT file, or open PowerPoint and go to File > Open to select your file.
The list of slides appears in the left panel. If you want to duplicate multiple slides at once, hold down the Control key as you click each slide on a PC, or the Command key as you click on a Mac.^{[1]
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Right-click the selected slide(s). A menu will expand.
- If you're using a Mac and don't have a right mouse button, hold down the Control key as you click the selected slide(s) instead.
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Click Duplicate Slide on the menu. The duplicated slide(s) will appear right after the original slide(s).
- You can drag it up or down the slide column to change its order in the presentation.

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You can also select a slide in the sidebar and then press ⌘ Command+D (Mac) or Ctrl+D (PC) to duplicate it.

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If you copy large amounts of text or images, PowerPoint may ask you if you want to make this information available after closing PowerPoint. Click Yes if you're closing your current presentation and opening another one to paste into.

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