Inserting shapes, slides, worksheets, pages and full documents from the Library

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Written by Romain | Updated

To give quick access to frequently used content, UpSlide provides a fully customized Library for your company. The Library allows you to locate and insert up-to-date content (such as corporate slides, logos, team bios as well as graphical elements like layouts, tables or icons) directly from within PowerPoint, Excel and Word.

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How to use the Library

  1. Go to UpSlide tab and click on Library (the button is at the top-left corner in PowerPoint and Word and at the top-right corner in Excel). The Library pane will open on the right. It might load for a short moment if this is the first time you open it.
  2. The contents of the Library are organized in folders. Use the pane to navigate the folders and find the item you want to insert. To learn more about the structure of the Library and the searching tools, see our dedicated article.
  3. Double click the thumbnail of an item to insert it in your document.

Additional options are available for the shapes in PowerPoint:

  • Select an object in your slide, right click on the thumbnail of a shape and click Insert and resize. This will insert the shape and modify its dimensions to fit the size of the object previously selected.
  • Click Insert / remove from master to insert a shape in all the slides of your presentation.
Important
If you want a library content to be added or edited, please contact your UpSlide administrators at your company. They have full control over the UpSlide library with the ability to add, edit, and delete content. They also ensure that the content inside the Library is up-to-date.
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What to learn more about the Library? See our next article Navigating the Library.
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The contents of the Library

The Library is available in PowerPoint, Excel and Word. Depending on the application you are using, the contents inside may vary.

The PowerPoint Library

The PowerPoint Library can contain:

  • Shapes and text boxes (e.g. logos, icons, team bios, ...). They are frequently used in the three applications.
  • Slides.
  • Decks of slides.

Double clicking on a slide or deck of slides inserts it directly in your presentation.

The Excel Library

The Excel Library can contain:

  • Shapes and text boxes (e.g. logos, icons, team bios, ...). They are common to the three applications.
  • Worksheets.
  • Workbooks.

Double clicking on a worksheet inserts it directly to your Excel file while double clicking on a workbook opens up a new file.

The Word Library

The Word Library can contain:

  • Shapes and text boxes (e.g. logos, icons, team bios, ...). They are common to the three applications.
  • Texts. 
  • Word documents.

Double clicking on a text inserts it directly in your file while double clicking on a Word document opens up a new file.

Tombstones, Case Studies, CVs and Bios

Depending on your features available you may have these held in your library as shapes. If you have an additional tab in your library you have a Dynamic Library which gives you filterable options to build and arrange content on your slide automatically. This is the Dynamic Library which has a dedicated page here. Screenshot of an additional library tab:
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