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Hi,
The issue I'm facing at the moment is copying one design from a PowerPoint to another. To be more specific, I am trying to update an older PowerPoint's design to a new design that my company using.
Essentially, what I'm asking, is there an easy way to update the design/layout of all the slides of an older PowerPoint to those of a newer one.
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Start with the new presentation open. Go to the Design tab. Click the down arrow on the right side of the Themes group to open the Themes gallery. Click Browse for Themes, which you'll find at the bottom of the Themes gallery. Browse to and choose the older presentation, the one whose theme you want to apply to the new presentation. Click OK.
Done.
See, every presentation contains the theme/template that it was built on, and PPT knows how to treat a regular PPTX as though it were a theme file.
Steve has the answer on how to apply the new design.
When updating an existing PowerPoint theme or template, the best practice is to open the old theme or template and modify that to the new design, taking care not to add, delete or rename placeholders on any existing layouts. Otherwise, when you paste in old slides, they will bring in their old layouts and muck up your new design. Here's my article with more details: Legacy Slides - Best Practices
I just tried this method but for some reason only the first slide updates to the new design and the rest don't change.
It also messes up the layout of stuff so things like text and what not are jumbled up.
We've been given a template to use. It's got like 11/12 slides with the new design and layouts but ofc nothing on there - this is the new template.
I've tried to copy and paste the slide master from the new template into the old existing PowerPoint and delete the old slide master but I can't do that. I feel like I'm being dumb here and I'm missing, sorry lmao.
Steve has the answer on how to apply the new design.
When updating an existing PowerPoint theme or template, the best practice is to open the old theme or template and modify that to the new design, taking care not to add, delete or rename placeholders on any existing layouts. Otherwise, when you paste in old slides, they will bring in their old layouts and muck up your new design. Here's my article with more details: Legacy Slides - Best Practices
Let me give a bit more context. I work for a university and i need to do this for lets say over 50 lecturers, each of which have about 15 lectures (existing powerpoints) that need to be updated.
I’m looking for a way that reduces the manual labour and makes it quicker to just update the design of an already existing PowerPoint to a new one thats been made in a different PowerPoint.