Working with multiple presentations

PowerPoint 2016
You usually work with only one presentation at a given time. But occasionally, you may need to open two or more presentations at once. E.g., to copy text or slides from one presentation to another.

To open another presentation, in the File tab, choose Open or click Ctrl+O and select the presentation.

When more than one presentation is open, you can switch among them by selecting the one you want to see from the taskbar in Windows. E.g.:

Windows PowerPoint 365

Alternatively, you can do one of the following:

   1.   On the View tab, in the Window group, click the Switch Windows button:

Switch Windows in PowerPoint 365

Select any open presentation from there:

Switch Windows in PowerPoint 365

   2.   Switch between open windows of all applications by:

  • holding down the Alt key and pressing Tab to browse thumbnails of open windows (Alt+Tab) - not just PowerPoint;
  • pressing Alt+Esc repeatedly to cycle through them - not just PowerPoint;
  • pressing Ctrl+F6 to switch between just PowerPoint presentations.

See also this tip in French: Travailler avec plusieurs présentations.

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Working with multiple presentations

Working with multiple presentations

You usually work with only one presentation at a given time. But occasionally, you may need to open two or more presentations at once. E.g., to copy text or slides from one presentation to another.
Working with multiple presentations

Working with multiple presentations

You usually work with only one presentation at a given time. But occasionally, you may need to open two or more presentations at once. E.g., to copy text or slides from one presentation to another.
Open presentations

Open presentations

You can work with several presentations at the same time. To open a recently used presentation, you can use the Open pane, but the Open dialog box is your key to finding and retrieving presentations.