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I hope you are well.
I have a question about the design of the slides. Let´s say that I have three slides. I want to use the design of the first slide (design that I got from “design ideas” in the designer group of the “home” tab) and use it for the rest of the slides. How can I copy and paste only the design to the rest of the slides? I know that I could right click and duplicate the slide but then I would have to paste the content from the other slides on this copy.
I just want to know if I can copy the design of a slide onto the other ones that already have their own content. I have tried the master view but I cannot see how you can add this design from “design ideas” in the designer group of the “home” tab.
Thanks
Sanchez
A family of Microsoft presentation graphics products that offer tools for creating presentations and adding graphic effects like multimedia objects and special effects with text.
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That doesn't work with Design ideas - they do not follow the master.
The source of a slide design is the slide layout that it is based on. Choose View>Slide Master to see the slide layout for the selected slide. You can copy formatting of individual elements with the Format Painter, but not a whole slide.
To change the design of a slide, choose Home>Layout and select the layout that has the design you want.
Even though Design Ideas was invented by Microsoft, it doesn't follow best practices for creating new presentations. The design is often applied to just a few layouts, or just one layout, or just the current slide. It's a roll of the dice. Many shapes are locked, which you can finally fix in the Windows Microsoft 365 version.
You'll have to use the design as a starting point to reformat your slide master, then your slide layouts to get a workable presentation template that you can apply to slides as expected.
You're correct, there is no simple or automatic way to make a working template from Design Ideas.
Hi Sanchez,
Thanks Gee,
The issue here is that the design that I used for the first slides was a design from Design Ideas button. Therefore, that design is not in the design section and that´s why I was wondering if I could copy and paste it through the slide master view.