Merge PowerPoint Files

What Merge PPT does

Combine several PowerPoint files into one deck. Group presentations are almost always assembled this way: each person builds their own section, and someone has to stitch them together the night before. Merging keeps the slides in the order you choose without opening five files side by side.

What is kept from each deck

Different templates, backgrounds, a chart, photos, transitions

Slides 1–4 exactly as in intro.pptx.
Slides 5–13 from results.pptx with their own backgrounds,
pictures, chart and transitions — not just their text.

Each slide is copied with its relationships (pictures, charts, links) and background. Slide masters are matched by layout name where the first deck has one; otherwise a blank layout is used and the slide's own design carries over.

When you'd use it

• Three speakers' decks into one for the session
• Combining a template deck with content slides from last quarter
• A course module assembled from several lecture decks

Formats and limits

Limitations

• Slides are copied with their own layouts and masters, so a merged deck can carry several themes; decks of different slide sizes are rescaled to the first deck's size.
• Slide numbers restart from the first deck's numbering; section names are not merged.
• Embedded video and audio are copied but very large media can push the file over the 25 MB upload limit on the way in.

Questions

Tools people use next

• PPTX

  Split PPT

  Split a deck into ranges of slides, each a complete .pptx.

• PPTX

  Compress PPT

  Shrink a heavy deck to a target size by re-encoding its pictures.

• PPTPDF

  PPT to PDF

  One page per slide, every font and image where you put it.

• JPGPPT

  JPG to PPT

  Each image becomes a full-bleed slide in a new deck.

• ODPPDF

  ODP to PDF

  Impress decks as one-slide-per-page PDFs.

• PPTIMAGE

  PPT to Image

  Export slides as JPG or PNG pictures — one per slide.