How can I copy a slide design from one presentation to another? in PowerPoint General Questions    |   |  Help   Search For:     In:   Office   PowerPoint     PowerPoint General Questions              Dave Rosen 2/14/2005 4:00 PM PST   Question   I have a presentation with a unique slide design. I would like to use this design in a new presentation. How do I transfer it??     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           Sonia 2/14/2005 4:38 PM PST   Answer   This is how I would do it: 1. Open the presentation with the unique slide design. 2. Save it to a new name. This is just to protect you from yourself and prevent an accidental save that would wipe out the original. 3. Delete all of the slides. 4. Go to File > Save as > Design Template (*.POT) and give it a name that you will remember. Once you specify the file type as Design Template, PowerPoint will shift and point to the folder where it expects templates to be stored. Don't override the location. PowerPoint knows best. <G> The above method gives you a permanent copy of the template for repeated use in the future. If you only want to use it once, just do Steps 1-3 and then start creating your new slides. -- Sonia Coleman Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials http://www.soniacoleman.com "Dave Rosen" <Dave Rosen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:B9E4F357-4DDA-4338-BF9B-7EEE207B528A@microsoft.com... >I have a presentation with a unique slide design. I would like to use this > design in a new presentation. How do I transfer it??     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           erinblu 8/18/2009 4:03 PM PST   I followed these instructions, but when I opened the ppt to which I wanted to apply the slide design, the new template was not offered as an available slide design. What should I do? "Sonia" wrote: > This is how I would do it: > 1. Open the presentation with the unique slide design. > 2. Save it to a new name. This is just to protect you from yourself and > prevent an accidental save that would wipe out the original. > 3. Delete all of the slides. > 4. Go to File > Save as > Design Template (*.POT) and give it a name that you > will remember. > > Once you specify the file type as Design Template, PowerPoint will shift and > point to the folder where it expects templates to be stored. Don't override the > location. PowerPoint knows best. <G> > > The above method gives you a permanent copy of the template for repeated use in > the future. > > If you only want to use it once, just do Steps 1-3 and then start creating your > new slides. > -- > > Sonia Coleman > Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team > Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials > http://www.soniacoleman.com > > > "Dave Rosen" <Dave Rosen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:B9E4F357-4DDA-4338-BF9B-7EEE207B528A@microsoft.com... > >I have a presentation with a unique slide design. I would like to use this > > design in a new presentation. How do I transfer it?? > > >     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           Echo S 8/18/2009 5:06 PM PST   Which version of PPT are you using? -- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://tinyurl.com/36grcd PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx Don't Miss the PPTLive User Conference! Atlanta | Oct 11-14 "erinblu" <erinblu@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:84B6BB3E-7FD7-438F-A3EA-39D3830A7934@microsoft.com... >I followed these instructions, but when I opened the ppt to which I wanted >to > apply the slide design, the new template was not offered as an available > slide design. What should I do? > > "Sonia" wrote: > >> This is how I would do it: >> 1. Open the presentation with the unique slide design. >> 2. Save it to a new name. This is just to protect you from yourself and >> prevent an accidental save that would wipe out the original. >> 3. Delete all of the slides. >> 4. Go to File > Save as > Design Template (*.POT) and give it a name >> that you >> will remember. >> >> Once you specify the file type as Design Template, PowerPoint will shift >> and >> point to the folder where it expects templates to be stored. Don't >> override the >> location. PowerPoint knows best. <G> >> >> The above method gives you a permanent copy of the template for repeated >> use in >> the future. >> >> If you only want to use it once, just do Steps 1-3 and then start >> creating your >> new slides. >> -- >> >> Sonia Coleman >> Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team >> Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials >> http://www.soniacoleman.com >> >> >> "Dave Rosen" <Dave Rosen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >> news:B9E4F357-4DDA-4338-BF9B-7EEE207B528A@microsoft.com... >> >I have a presentation with a unique slide design. I would like to use >> >this >> > design in a new presentation. How do I transfer it?? >> >> >>     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top         Return to Microsoft Communities   Notify me of replies