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How to Copy a PowerPoint Design Template to Another Presentation

It's quick and easy to copy over a design template

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What to Know

• In the source presentation, select View > Slide Master . In the Slide pane, right-click the Slide Master and select Copy .
• Go to View > Switch Windows and choose the second presentation. Go to View > Slide Master . Right-click the Slide pane and select Paste .
• Choose Use Destination Theme (keeps colors, fonts, and effects) or Keep Source Formatting (copies the source's colors, fonts, effects).

This article explains how to copy a PowerPoint design template over to another presentation. Instructions apply to PowerPoint 2019, PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint 2013, and PowerPoint for Microsoft 365.

How to Copy a Presentation's Design Template

It's often quicker to copy a design template from a presentation than to find it in the list of PowerPoint templates. 

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 .

The Slide Master is the large thumbnail image at the top of the Slide pane. Some presentations contain more than one slide master.

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

If you don't see the other PowerPoint presentation on this list, it means that the other file isn't open. Open it now and return to this step to select it from the list.

In the second presentation, go to View and select Slide Master to open the  Slide Master .

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 Use Destination Theme to keep the theme colors, fonts, and effects of the presentation you are pasting to.
• Choose Keep Source Formatting to copy the theme colors, fonts, and effects of the template you are copying from.

Select  Close Master View .

Changes made to individual slides in the original presentation, such as font styles, do not change the design template of that presentation. Therefore, graphic objects or font changes added to individual slides do not copy over to a new presentation. 

To copy PowerPoint slides to another presentation , right-click the thumbnail of the slide you want to copy and choose Copy . Right-click a blank area of the Slides pane where you want to place it and choose one of the pasting options.

To save a copy of a PowerPoint presentation on your computer, go to the File tab and select Download As > Download a Copy . Select Download to continue.

To embed YouTube videos in PowerPoint , select Share > Embed . Select the HTML code and choose Copy . In your PowerPoint slide, select Insert > Video > Insert Video From Website . In the dialog box, right-click the blank area and choose  Paste  > Insert .

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copy master page from one powerpoint presentation to another

if i have a powerpoint with a certain set of master pages and backgrounds and i want to conver t an old presentation to do the same, how do i do this?

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• You need to tell us which version of PowerPoint you are using if you want detailed step by step on this - 2007 themes work in a very different way to older 2000 / 2003 way of doing things, so to get the shortest option we need to know which instructions you need. –  AdamV Dec 6, 2009 at 15:06

Taken from Apply multiple slide masters to a new or existing presentation for PowerPoint 2007 (will probably work in principle for earlier versions but with different user interface):

Copy and paste a slide master from one presentation to another Open both the presentation that contains the slide master that you want to copy and the presentation that you will paste the slide master to. In the presentation that contains the slide master that you want to copy, on the View menu, in the Presentation Views group, click Slide Master. In the slide thumbnail pane, right-click the slide master that you want to copy, and then click Copy. On the View tab, in the Window group, click Switch Windows, and then select the presentation that you want to paste the slide master to. In the presentation that you want to paste the slide master to, on the View menu, in the Presentation Views group, click Slide Master. In the slide thumbnail pane, to click the location where you want the slide master to reside, do one of the following: a. If the destination presentation contains a blank slide master, right-click the blank slide master, and then click Paste. b. If the destination presentation contains one or more customized slide masters, scroll to the bottom where the last slide layout resides, right-click below it, and then click Paste. To copy and paste additional slide masters, follow steps 1 through 6. On the Slide Master tab, in the Close group, click Close Master View.

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