How to Copy a PowerPoint Design Template to Another Presentation.

Former Lifewire writer Wendy Russell is an experienced teacher specializing in live communications, graphics design, and PowerPoint software.

If you have an existing PowerPoint presentation that was created with a design template you want to use in another presentation, its a simple process.

Just copy the Slide Master design, complete with fonts, colors, and graphics, to the other presentation.

Its as easy as opening both PowerPoint files and doing a simple copy and paste between them.

Go to View in the presentation that contains the design template you want to copy and select Slide Master.

Right-click the Slide Master in the Slide pane on the left side of the screen and select Copy.

Go to View, select Switch Windows, and choose the presentation you want to paste the Slide Master into.

Open it now and return to this step to select it from the list.

To insert the Slide Master from the other presentation, right-click on the Slide pane to the left, select Paste, and do one of the following.

Choose Keep Source Formatting to copy the theme colors, fonts, and effects of the template you are copying from.

Therefore, graphic objects or font changes added to individual slides do not copy over to a new presentation.

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