Assemble new presentations from existing slide decks

The QorusDocs Cart is a powerful feature designed to help you collect, organize, and reuse content—particularly slides—from multiple presentations, documents, or sources, and then assemble them into a new, customized presentation.

Think of it as your personal shopping cart for content. As you browse through slides in different presentations, you can add the ones you want to reuse to your Cart. Once you're ready, you can review your selected slides and insert them into a new or existing presentation—all without leaving the QorusDocs interface.

In this article, we'll explain:

1. Adding all the slides from a presentation to the Cart
2. Pick and choose different slides from a presentation and add them to a cart
3. The Cart Checkout and Clear bar
4. Delete unwanted slides from a cart
5. Re-arrange the slides in a cart
6. Create and personalize the assembled slide deck

Adding all the slides from a presentation to the Cart

From either the Search pane, your favorites, or your Pursuit, click on the name of each presentation you’d like to use and then click on 'Add to Cart' to add all the slides from those presentations to your Cart:

Repeat the steps above for each set of slides you’d like to assemble.

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Pick and choose different slides from a presentation and add them to a cart

Instead of adding an entire presentation to the cart, you can choose which slides you'd like to add from the Preview.

To launch the preview window, click on 'Preview':

Then go over to the 'Gallery' preview and click on the slides to select the ones you want. When you're ready, click on 'Add selected items to the cart':

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The Cart Checkout and Clear bar

After you've added your first slides to the Cart, a new bar will appear at the top of the Search or Pursuits pane.

Here, you can see how many slides/items there are in your Cart and you can manage your Cart by clicking on 'Checkout', or you can clear all the items in your Cart by clicking on 'Clear'.

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Delete unwanted slides from a cart

To access and manage the items in a cart, click on the "Checkout" button:

Then in the 'Cart Contents' window that pops up on your screen next, select the slides you don't need by clicking on them, and then click on 'Delete selected items':

Then confirm the deletion by clicking on the "Ok" button.

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Re-arrange the slides in a cart

While you're in the Cart Contents window (click on the 'Checkout' button to bring this up), you can select slides by clicking on them.

After you've made your selections, and with your finger pressed down on your left mouse button, drag your selection to a new spot, and release the left mouse button when you see the orange bar appear in the spot where you'd like to move the slides to:

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Create and personalize the assembled slide deck

When you're ready, click on 'Create' to personalize and assemble your new slide deck:

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If your slides contain Smart Fields and/or Smart Rules, you'll be presented with a Smart Fields form a bit like this:

You then choose the document you wish to use and run QPilot to dynamically extract relevant information from the template and create your slide deck.

Click here to learn more about the “creating new presentations using AI-Powered Templates”

When you're ready, click on 'Continue', to complete the creation of your new slide deck.

Please note that if any Smart Fields in the form remain incomplete, you will see a message at the bottom of the page highlighting the number of missing fields. To complete the fields, you can either click on the hyperlinked message “Fix smart fields first” or click back to go re-visit the form and complete the missing fields.

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Once you complete the form and click again on continue, you will be able to complete the creation:

To complete the creation of the document:

1. First off, you'll need to provide a name for the new presentation to be created
2. Next, you'll be asked whether the new presentation should be created in its original format (in this case PowerPoint), or if the new document should be created as a PDF.
3. If you check the box 'Save this document', QorusDocs will save the document to the location you specify.

If you choose not to check the box 'Save this document', QorusDocs will skip the step of saving it to your Office 365, and will go straight to giving you the option to either download the new file and open it on your desktop, or to just attach it to the email you are currently working on.

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