How do I create a custom PowerPoint template and apply it to an existing presentation?

Question

Hi. I have 89 power point presentation slides. Howewer, my professor ask me to change every slide background with his background / template.

Here's the power point my professor provides :

Nah the problem is, when I try to use this tutorial https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/apply-a-template-to-an-existing-presentation-43f7fc75-db26-433b-8248-9fcd0093006b#:~:text=the%20procedures%20below.-,Select%20File%20>%20New%20from%20Template.,file%20and%20then%20click%20Choose. I copy all of my slide to that power point, and paste it (use destination theme), my original background / template does persist. it did not change

Please tell me what to do. It's too bothersome to keep manualy copy paste the slide one by one

Answer 1

First: You pasted the image onto the layout of whatever was the current slide, not to the master itself. Depending on what you want to do, this may or may not be ok. If you want the image to appear on ALL slide, as I expect you do, choose View | Slide Master then scroll to the top slide in the thumbnail pane, the one that all the other thumbnails are slightly indented under. THAT is the master; anything pasted there should appear on ALL slides.

Next: With the image pasted onto the slide's layout, it's probably appearing on the slide, but you've got other stuff covering it up, ie your own image(s) on the slide. Select and delete anything that's not supposed to be part of every slide and delete it. The image you pasted onto the layout should then be visible.

Answer 2

>> However, upon applying it to my power point, nothing changed.

As I mentioned earlier, if either the presentation you're applying the theme to, or the theme itself, are incorrectly built, this will happen. If you can provide a link to a folder with your sample presentation (just a few slides worth) and the professor's PPT, we can have a look to see what can be done.

>> and when I check the themes, I can't see any of it there

Getting your own themes to show up among the MS-provided ones is something of a dark art. But to apply a theme just once or twice, it's not necessary. Just use the Browse feature and select the theme you want to apply.

Answer 3

>> However, upon applying it to my power point, nothing changed.

As I mentioned earlier, if either the presentation you're applying the theme to, or the theme itself, are incorrectly built, this will happen. If you can provide a link to a folder with your sample presentation (just a few slides worth) and the professor's PPT, we can have a look to see what can be done.

>> and when I check the themes, I can't see any of it there

Getting your own themes to show up among the MS-provided ones is something of a dark art. But to apply a theme just once or twice, it's not necessary. Just use the Browse feature and select the theme you want to apply.

Okay here's for the slide template

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QlN4bsx15KfscG_axfN4FEEIIl3Z9hFP/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=116524870590072024905&rtpof=true&sd=true and here's for my power point

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19ILlyyXNXLSXUuwXXpfj3COGC8mKoVuS/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=116524870590072024905&rtpof=true&sd=true

Answer 4

Your teacher's presentation is not in any way, shape or form a template or theme. It's just two slides.

Open it, choose View | Slide Master and look at the thumbnails on the left.

They're plain blank white default layouts.

Likewise, open your presentation and do the same. The layouts are not only blank, they've been mashed somehow ... all of the placeholders are small and off center. Google Slides or Keynote or something at work here.

If you were to start with the teacher's presentation and copy anything you want to appear on ALL of your slides to YOUR presentation's slide master, it'd be a start. You'd also need to delete all of the design elements from your slides so the newly pasted ones from the master would show.

It's a pity that schools just dump tools like PowerPoint, Word, Excel and the rest into students' laps and expect them to become instantly proficient. It's a bigger pity when their teachers haven't the slightest grasp of how to use the tools they're expecting their students to work with.

Or maybe this is a deliberate test of your ingenuity? ;-)

Answer 5

Your teacher's presentation is not in any way, shape or form a template or theme. It's just two slides.

Open it, choose View | Slide Master and look at the thumbnails on the left.

They're plain blank white default layouts.

Likewise, open your presentation and do the same. The layouts are not only blank, they've been mashed somehow ... all of the placeholders are small and off center. Google Slides or Keynote or something at work here.

If you were to start with the teacher's presentation and copy anything you want to appear on ALL of your slides to YOUR presentation's slide master, it'd be a start. You'd also need to delete all of the design elements from your slides so the newly pasted ones from the master would show.

It's a pity that schools just dump tools like PowerPoint, Word, Excel and the rest into students' laps and expect them to become instantly proficient. It's a bigger pity when their teachers haven't the slightest grasp of how to use the tools they're expecting their students to work with.

Or maybe this is a deliberate test of your ingenuity? ;-)

Yes. That's why in the first time I post here, I'm not sure wheter call it layout / template /anything, and in the reply after, I also said "he just creates a blank ppt document and pastes his image there."

Is there any way to create any theme /template/layout /anything from an image? All what they asked the student to do is just use their image as the background of our presentation. This is not once or twice. Previously I manually copy and paste element from my power point to my teacher slide one by one, so I ask here if there's any other way rather than just copy one item by one item. If their image can be background /template /theme whatever it is, then it will be very helpful