How to unmerge slides?
If you have used our feature before to merge slides (you can refer to this article for the step-by-step guide), you might find yourself in the situation of merging slides by mistake and would like to unmerge them.
You can follow the below steps to unmerge the slides:
- Go to the Manage Assets view of the merged slide
- Check the previous slide versions, you should be able to find the slide versions before the merge. Click on the dropdown menu next to the ‘Actions’ button of the slide in the previous version of the slide and select ‘Add as a new stand-alone slide’
- You will find the slide added to the library as a new standalone slide. This should show up as one of the first slides in the 'Manage Assets' view
If your merged slides are part of a presentation, please proceed with the below after you have created the slide as a new standalone slide:
- Select the slide and click on the dropdown menu next to the ‘Deselect all’ button and choose ‘Add selected to presentation’
- Choose the presentation that the merged slides are a part of and click on ‘Add slides’. When the pop-up window shows, click on ‘Edit presentation'
- Click on ‘Slides’ of the presentation to check the slides
| Please note: The newly added standalone slide after unmerging would always be added at the end of the presentation, you might need to drag and drop the slide to the correct slide order.
- Remove/delete the original merged slide that shouldn’t be part of the presentation
| Please note: If the slides look identical and you cannot tell the difference between the newly added slide and the original merged slide, you can use the timestamp beneath the slides as an indicator or click on the ‘cog wheel’ button of the two slides and check the slide log. The one that you SHOULDN’T REMOVE is the marked by ‘restore as new by xx’ in the slide log.
Updated on: 06/12/2025
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