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Frustrated With Changing Templates in PowerPoint 2007/2010?
eSlide Power Blog Post by Jen Finke
 There is often a lot of difficulty with reusing old slides in a new PowerPoint 2007 or 2010 presentation. We understand and empathize with your frustrations, as we deal with these same issues on a daily basis. Many PowerPoint users encounter these same headaches, so we are in "good" company.
Recently, a client came to us with this exact problem. Every time she tried to copy and paste between two "very similar" templates, everything would get messed up. Even though we told her to "Keep source formatting" box unchecked, PPT 2007 still brings in the source masters/layouts from her old file. So...in essence, even though you tell PPT 2007 NOT to keep the source formatting, it goes ahead and does it anyway. The same thing happens if you simply copy and paste from an old deck into a new deck. PowerPoint pastes in all the old masters/layouts with the slides.
We did some research and here's what we found:
The issue, in this case, seems to be that when the layouts are named differently, they will not automatically take the new layout, but instead bring in the uniquely named layouts and keep the imported slides in that layout. Whereas, if the layouts are named identically, they will go into the new template with minimal hiccups.
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