How to create a copy of a complete slide in PowerPoint with keyboard shortcut

In Microsoft PowerPoint, placeholders are boxes with dotted borders that contain content and reside within a slide layout. All built-in slide layouts that come with PowerPoint contain content placeholders. If you click on the bottom half of the New Slide button in Home tab, PowerPoint displays all the slide layouts you can insert, and on each you can see content placeholders.

How placeholders appear on each slide is determined by the Slide Master. So you can add new placeholders and create new layouts only by using Slide Master. I recommend you to create new layouts as you wish (if the existing layouts do not satisfy you), and then to insert new slides with the layouts you just created whenever you need to use them.

1. One time PowerPoint setup: Right click the Ribbon and click Customize the Ribbon. In the right hand column, put a check box next to Developer.

2. For each slide where you will be adding content:

   • In the Ribbon, click the Developer tab. Click the Text Box control; then drag a rectangle for the text box on the slide.

   • Right click the text box, and click Property Sheet. Set EnterKeyBehavior to True and MultiLine to True. If desired, click Font and then the “…” on the right to change the font and size.