Accessing the Slide Library from the Editor
SlideRocket automatically compiles a library of every slide you create and lets you use a single slide in more than one presentation. When you share a slide like this, you can edit it in one presentation and it will update in every other presentation. This is a huge benefit, because now you know that every presentation always has the latest information, and you never need to worry about copying and pasting again. Here's how to share your slides between presentations:
- When you don't have anything selected, the properties for the current slide appear in the properties panel. If you want to deselect everything to see the slide properties, just click once in the light gray border around the slide as indicated. In the slide properties panel for each slide is a "Share this Slide in Library" checkbox.
- When you check the "Share this Slide in Library" box, you will see a sharing icon appear in the lower left corner of that slide's thumbnail. This means that the slide is shared.
- You can access your Slide Library from the Editor at any time by pressing the Library button (it's also fun to press the Library button because the entire SlideRocket window rearranges itself).
- By default the Slide Library shows only the slides that you have marked for sharing. If you wish to access all of your slides you can check the "Show private slides" button.
- Once you find the slide you want to use in your presentation, simply drag its thumbnail up from the Slide Library into your presentation.
- Now the slide that you chose from the library is part of your presentation and you can see its thumbnail in the slide sorter.
- Press the "Library" button again to close the Slide Library and return to editing your presentation.
Remember that editing a shared slide in one presentation also changes that slide in every other presentation where that slide is used.