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Is there a way to import slides from a PowerPoint presentation into an existing Wdesk presentation?

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We currently have some slides in our investor deck that change each quarter that are prepared by users that do not have access to Workiva.  It'd be helpful to import their slides into the existing slide deck rather than manually recreate them in Workiva.
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  • Mike

    Welcome to the Community, Liz!

    You betcha, you can import a PowerPoint presentation into Wdesk and then copy those slides to your existing Wdesk Presentation. To do so, click Import > From PPTX (Beta).  From here, you can choose to create a new Presentation or add your powerpoint slides to the end of an existing Presentation. 

    More info about Wdesk Presentations can be found here on our Help site: https://success.workiva.com/help/presentations/introduction-to-presentations

    Let me know if you have any questions on the above, or need anything else. Thanks, and looking forward to chatting with your further!

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  • Liz Clegg
    Thanks, Mike! Is direct import functionality (versus manually copying/pasting slide content) being considered in subsequent versions of Presentations?
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  • Mike
    No problem, Liz!

    By direct import, do you mean importing slides into an existing Wdesk Presentation? This is something that our Product Team has considered. Furthermore, the ability to copy a slide and then paste into another Presentation is also something that's being worked on. I've shared your thoughts with the team and will keep this post updated with any new information.

    Thanks again for your contributions and have a great day!
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  • Liz Clegg
    Yes, that's what I meant! Thank you - you too!
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  • Patti Sullivan

    I am following up on this question from 2yrs ago.  Is there any efforts to create the functionality to be able to replace a slide in a presentation instead of creating a whole new presentation in Wdesk and copying it from there.  It would be helpful for individuals to be able to upload their PP slides directly to a presentation in Wdesk.

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  • Barbara Glenn

    What would be helpful is importing and overwriting identical titled slides like we do with spreadsheets. 

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  • Frances Keys

    Can you clarify if someone imports their own slide (from PPT deck) into an existing presentation, whether that will affect notifications on tasks being set up? We have a team that does this and they are the only ones (from 15 other teams) that don't receive task notifications for reviewers and approvers they set up?

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