Sharing Slides Between Decks

As someone in an external-facing role, I spend a decent amount of time in Keynote / PowerPoint / Google Slides building presentations. I give lots of presentations to external audiences and I often build custom presentations for each audience. Sort of.

The reality, of course, is that I typically copy a bunch of slides from different presentations and combine them together. Even many of our standard slide decks (not the custom ones for a particular presentation) share many individual slides. Company Overview, Mission, Team, Growth. Key Features, etc

Of course, each of the these slides is updated — and we are perpetually trying to make sure we have the most recent version of individual slides in each deck. This seems like a solvable problem with a real library of slides of some sort. I’m really surprised I haven’t seen an elegant solution to this problem yet. Google Slides works okay for collaboration on a deck — but not for slides shared between multiple decks.

If anyone has suggestions for good ways to manage this, I’d love to hear them. Or if there are any enterpreneurs out there looking for product ideas in the productivity space — here’s one for you!

Originally published at jeffkeltner.com on August 30, 2018.