Your slide and image assets

Add your favorite slides, slide objects, and images to your PowerPoint presentation.

Insert 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, make sure you're in the Normal, Outline, or Slide Sorter view in PowerPoint. Then follow these steps:

1. Open the library: on the PowerPoint ribbon, go to the Insert tab. In the Slides group, select Library .
2. In think-cell Library, select a folder that contains slide assets. To add slide assets to the library, see Add or remove your slide and image assets in the library.

3. In the search box, enter search terms. To filter and sort the results, see Filter and sort your slide assets. To use more search features, see More asset search features.

4. Insert the slide that you want. You can insert a slide with destination or source formatting:

   • To insert a slide with destination formatting, click the slide that you want to insert. Alternatively, hover over the slide, then select Insert slide with destination formatting .
   • To insert a slide with source 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 assets

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

Filter slides

When searching your slide assets, 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. When you're finished, 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. To refine your results, in the search box, enter search terms.
• Slide Masters: Select one or more slide masters. To refine your results, in the search box, enter search terms.
• Layouts: Select one or more slide layouts. To refine your results, in the search box, enter search terms.

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 are identical or nearly identical to each other. The first slide that matches your search criteria appears in the results, and any following duplicate slides are hidden.

To filter visually similar slides from your results, select Hide Duplicate Slides.

Insert slide objects into presentations

In the think-cell Library, you can insert a slide's shapes and elements into your presentation.

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:
   • Insert 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 or remove your slide and image assets in the library.

More asset search features

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

• Resize thumbnails: In the search results, to change the size of the thumbnails, hold Ctrl and rotate the mouse wheel to zoom in and out. On a touchpad, pinch and stretch.
• Result count: Next to asset folders, you can see how many assets in a folder match your search criteria.
• Highlighted slide text: On slide thumbnails, text that matches your search criteria is highlighted in yellow.
• View asset metadata: To see an asset's metadata, hover over its thumbnail. For slide assets, you can see the file name, the slide number, when it was last modified, and the author. For image assets, you can see the file name and when it was last modified.

Update your slide and image assets

If you want to update your assets before you continue to use them, you can easily access them from the library. On Windows, the library automatically reflects your changes.

Edit slide assets

If you want to edit a slide or presentation before you continue to use it, you can easily open the PowerPoint file from the library.

To open a slide's PowerPoint file, in the library search results, click the gray bar that contains the file name.

If you open a PowerPoint presentation (.pptx) from the library, PowerPoint opens the original file. If you open a PowerPoint template (.potx), PowerPoint opens a copy of the template as a presentation (.pptx).

On Windows, changes to PowerPoint files automatically appear in the library. If you don't see your changes in the library, refresh the search results by selecting F5.

Update image folder contents

If you want to add, edit, or delete image assets, you can easily open an asset folder from the library.

To open an image's folder, in the library search results, click the gray bar that contains the image's folder name.

On Windows, changes to image files and folders automatically appear in the library. If you don't see your changes in the library, refresh the search results by selecting F5.