When preparing multiple PowerPoint presentations with similar themes, copying slides helps to maintain consistency in terms of design, layout and content. This ensures that all presentations have a uniform appearance, which can enhance the aesthetics of your document. In this article, you will learn how to copy or clone slides in PowerPoint presentations in Python using Spire.Presentation for Python.

• Copy Slides Within the Same Presentation with Python
• Copy Slides to Another Presentation with Python

Install Spire.Presentation for Python

This scenario requires Spire.Presentation for Python and plum-dispatch v1.7.4. They can be easily installed in your Windows through the following pip command.

pip install Spire.Presentation

If you are unsure how to install, please refer to this tutorial: How to Install Spire.Presentation for Python on Windows

Copy Slides Within the Same Presentation with Python

You can clone a slide either at a specified location or at the end of a PowerPoint presentation through the Presentation.Slides.Insert(Index: int, slide: ISlide) or Presentation.Slides.AppendBySlide(slide: ISlide) methods. The following are the detailed steps.

• Create a Presentation instance.
• Load a PowerPoint presentation using Presentation.LoadFromFile() method.
• Get a specified slide using Prenstion.Slides[] property.
• Clone the slide to the end of the same presentation using Presentation.Slides.AppendBySlide() method.
• Clone the slide to a specific position within the same presentation using Presentation.Slides.Insert() method.
• Save the result file using Presentation.SaveToFile() method.

from spire.presentation.common import *
from spire.presentation import *

inputFile ="Input1.pptx"
outputFile ="CloneSlidesWithinTheSame.pptx"

# Create a Presentation instance
ppt = Presentation()

#Load a PowerPoint presentation
ppt.LoadFromFile(inputFile)

# Get the first slide in the presentation
slide = ppt.Slides[0]

# Clone the slide to the end of the presentation
ppt.Slides.AppendBySlide(slide)

# Clone the slide to the third position within the presentation
ppt.Slides.Insert(2, slide)

# Save the result file 
ppt.SaveToFile(outputFile, FileFormat.Pptx2016)
ppt.Dispose()

Copy Slides to Another Presentation with Python

Spire.Presentation for Python also allows you to load two PowerPoint files and then clone the slides from one presentation to another presentation. The following are the detailed steps.

• Create a Presentation instance.
• Load two PowerPoint presentations using Presentation.LoadFromFile() method.
• Get two slides in the first presentation using Prenstion.Slides[] property.
• Clone the first slide to a specific position in the second presentation using Presentation.Slides.Insert() method.
• Clone the second slide to the end of the second presentation using Presentation.Slides.AppendBySlide() method.
• Save the result file using Presentation.SaveToFile() method.

from spire.presentation.common import *
from spire.presentation import *

inputFile_1 = "Input1.pptx"
inputFile_2 = "Input2.pptx"
outputFile ="CloneSlidesToAnother.pptx"

# Load the first PowerPoint presentation
sourcePPT = Presentation()
sourcePPT.LoadFromFile(inputFile_1)

# Load the second PowerPoint presentation
destPPT = Presentation()
destPPT.LoadFromFile(inputFile_2)

# Get two slides in the first presentation
slide1 =sourcePPT.Slides[1]
slide2 =sourcePPT.Slides[2]

# Clone slide1 to the second position in the second presentation
destPPT.Slides.Insert(1, slide1)

# Clone slide2 to the end of the second presentation
destPPT.Slides.AppendBySlide(slide2)

# Save the second presentation
destPPT.SaveToFile(outputFile, FileFormat.Pptx2016)
destPPT.Dispose()

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