Your slide and image assets

Reuse existing slides, slide objects, and images in your PowerPoint presentations.

Insert your slide assets into presentations

You can reuse existing slides from your computer, network, or OneDrive in your presentations. Filter these slide assets by author, date modified, and more. Slide text and file names are searchable, so it's easy to quickly find the slides that you want.

To insert a slide asset into your presentation, follow these steps:

1. In PowerPoint, make sure that you're in the Normal, Outline, or Slide Sorter view.
2. Open the library: on the ribbon, go to the Insert tab. In the Slides group, select Library .
3. In think-cell Library, select a folder that contains your slide assets. To add slide assets to the library, see Add your slide and image assets to the library.

3. In the search box, enter search terms. To filter and sort the results, see Filter and sort your slide search results. To use more search features, see More asset search features.
4. Insert the slide that you want. You can insert the slide with your presentation's formatting or its original formatting:
   • To insert the slide with your presentation's formatting, click the slide that you want to insert. Alternatively, hover over the slide and select Insert slide with destination formatting .
   • To insert the slide with its original formatting, hover over the slide that you want to insert, then select Insert slide with source formatting .

The inserted slide appears after your current slide or at your selection between slides.

Filter and sort your slide search results

When searching your slide assets, you can filter your search results, choose how to sort the results, and hide duplicate slides.

Filter slides

To filter your search results, select Show Filters . Then, apply one or more of the following filters:

• Date Modified: Enter a start date, an end date, or both. In Start Date and End Date, you can type a date in the text box or select a date from the calendar.
  • Text box: Enter the date that you want, then select Enter.
  • Calendar: Select a date by using the mouse or the arrow keys, then select Enter. To close the calendar without selecting a date, select Esc.
• Aspect Ratio: Select one or more slide aspect ratios.
• Authors: Select one or more authors.
• Slide Masters: Select one or more slide masters.
• Layouts: Select one or more slide layouts.

You can also filter your search results by selecting a subfolder within your assets folder.

Sort slides

To choose how to sort your search results, on the Sort by menu, select one of the following:

• Location: PowerPoint files appear alphabetically by folder name, then alphabetically by file name.
• Most recent: PowerPoint files appear by last modified date from newest to oldest.

Hide duplicate slides

In the search results, you can hide slides that look the same as other slides. The first slide that matches your search criteria appears in the results, and any following duplicate slides are hidden.

To hide visually similar slides in your search results, select Hide Duplicate Slides.

Insert slide objects from the library into presentations

You can insert the shapes and elements from a slide in the library onto your current slide, rather than inserting a new slide.

1. In PowerPoint, select the slide onto which you want to insert the objects.
2. In the library, find the slide asset or slide template that contains the objects that you want. To learn how to search slide assets and slide templates, see the following topics:
   • Insert your slide assets into presentations
   • Insert slide templates into presentations
3. In the search results, hover over the slide that contains the objects that you want to add to your presentation. Select Insert all objects onto current slide .

Your image assets in the library

You can reuse existing images from your computer, network, or OneDrive in your presentations. To insert image assets into your presentation, see Insert library images and icons into presentations.

To add image assets to the library, see Add your slide and image assets to the library.

More asset search features

The think-cell Library has several features to help you find the slide or image that you want.

Open and edit your assets from the library

If you want to edit your assets before you continue to use them, you can easily open them from the library. On Windows, the library automatically reflects your changes. To see your changes in the library on Mac, see Add assets to the library on Mac.

Edit slide assets

If you want to edit a PowerPoint presentation (for example, .pptx) before you continue to use it, you can easily open the file from the library. To edit a PowerPoint template (for example, .potx), see the instructions at the end of this section.

1. In the library search results, click the gray bar that contains the name of the file that you want to edit. The presentation will open.
2. Edit the presentation and save your changes. If you can't save your changes, you might not have sufficient Write permissions for the folder or the file (see Permissions (Microsoft Learn)).
3. Wait a moment for your changes to appear in the library. You can also refresh the search results by selecting F5.

To edit a PowerPoint template (for example, .potx), in PowerPoint, select File > Open, then select the file that you want. Edit the file and save your changes, then wait a moment for your changes to appear in the library.

Update image folder contents

If you want to add, edit, or delete image assets, you can easily open the folder that contains the images from the library.

1. In the library search results, click the gray bar that contains the name of the folder that you want to update. The folder will open.
2. In the folder, add, edit, or delete images. If you can't update the images, you might not have sufficient Write or Modify permissions for the folder or the file (see Permissions (Microsoft Learn)).
3. Wait a moment for your changes to appear in the library. You can also refresh the search results by selecting F5.