Apply Template to PowerPoint

PowerPoint cannot really do this. Pasting slides into a template loses placeholders, "Apply Design" no longer exists in the ribbon, and the usual advice is a hundred steps in the slide master. The task is real: a deck written in one design has to come out in the company’s.

This takes the design layer out of the template — masters, layouts, theme, colour and font scheme — puts it into your deck, and points each slide at the layout that matches it: first by layout name, then by placeholder types, and it tells you which slides fell back to the default layout.

Apply a Template to a Deck

Put another deck’s design on this deck’s content: masters, layouts and theme swapped in.

Your deck (content)

Template (design)

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Frequently asked questions

Will my content move?
No. Slide content, notes and order are not touched. What changes is which layout the slide inherits from, so text and placeholders pick up the new fonts and colours. Anything the new layout cannot accommodate stays where it is.
What if the template is a different size?
By default the deck’s own slide size is kept and the report says so. There is an option to take the template’s size and refit the content — that rescales shapes on every slide, so it is off unless you ask for it.

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