How to Make a Default Slide in Powerpoint TUTORIAL

How to Make a Default Slide in Powerpoint

Target audience and introduction

This article is for users and Information technology administrators. In the commencement role, we'll testify users how to gear up the default template on their PC. In the second part, we'll show how IT admins can deploy the default template to PC users across their organization. For Mac users, refer to the department at the end of this commodity.

The default template in PowerPoint is a special file. Information technology is the template that it used to create the bare presentation y'all see each time you start PowerPoint. In organisations with their own template, it saves a lot of time if that template is presented to users each time PowerPoint starts. Somewhat confusingly, the default template is called blank.potx and it resides in the user'south documents area here:

%appdata%\Microsoft\Templates

The %appdata% part is an allonym (or shortcut) which resolves to a unique user location on every PC. For example:

C:\Users\JohnSmith\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates

This special location for blank.potx should not be confused with the split up location for custom (aka personal) templates which may exist the same location or one of these:

C:\Users\UserName\Documents\Custom Function Templates

It may as well be a completely different location since it tin be set past the user in the backstage under File / Options / Saveevery bit shown below (for PowerPoint 2016)

How users tin gear up the default template

Setting the default template requires two things:

1. The right file name : default.potx
2. The right location : %appdata%\Microsoft\Templates

To set the default template

1. Start PowerPoint
2. Open up the POTX template you want to set equally the default
3. Click File / Save Equally
4. Click the file type drop down and select PowerPoint Template (*.potx). This will automatically change the binder location to your personal templates folder. Do Non Relieve It HERE!
5. Now click More options… (PowerPoint 2016) which volition open a file dialog name and replace the file proper noun with %appdata%\Microsoft\Templates and hit return
6. You should now see a folder that contains the file blank.potx
7. You can optionally brand a backup upwardly of that file by selecting it, pressing Ctrl+C and then Ctrl+V
8. Click the blank.potx file and then click the Save push to overwrite it
9. Close PowerPoint
10. Commencement PowerPoint to confirm your default template has changed

Information technology admins deployment of the default template

There are several methods but by far the easiest is to use an xcopy command in a logon script file. This is the simplest example:

xcopy "\\myServer\userShare\myTemplate.potx" "%AppData%\Microsoft\Templates\blank.potx"

You can then add command line switches every bit required. For instance, to suppress UI messages:

xcopy "\\myServer\userShare\myTemplate.potx" "%AppData%\Microsoft\Templates\blank.potx" /y

This can exist extended to an enhanced script file that reports the success or failure of the xcopy procedure. Copy the following script to a batch file eg. setDefPOTX.bat, changing the serverFile value, then run it in the user logon sequence:

          @ECHO OFF  REM =============================================================================================== REM This is a script file for setting the default template that'south used when PowerPoint starts. REM Information technology copies a single template from a network share to the right folder and file on the user'south PC. REM Author : Jamie Garroch of YOUpresent Ltd. http://youpresent.co.united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland/ REM ===============================================================================================  REM Set the shared network resource in the adjacent line SET "serverFile=\\myServer\userShare\myTemplate.potx"  REM Do non change this path or file proper noun as it'southward hard coded past Microsoft and cannot be changed SET "localFile=%AppData%\Microsoft\Templates\blank.potx"  @ECHO Setting Default PowerPoint Template: @Echo. @ECHO From : %serverFile% @ECHO. @ECHO To : %localFile% @ECHO.  REM the /y switch is used to suppress the overwrite prompt REM the /z switch is used to copy in network restartable mode REM for other switches, refer to https://technet.microsoft.com/en-u.s.a./library/cc771254(v=ws.11).aspx XCOPY "%serverFile%" "%localFile%" /y /z  @ECHO.  IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU five @repeat Err 5. Deejay write error occurred. IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU four @echo Err 4. Initialization mistake occurred. There is non enough memory or deejay space, or yous entered an invalid drive proper noun or invalid syntax on the command line. IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 2 @repeat Err two. The user pressed Ctrl+C to cease xcopy. IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU one @echo Err 1. No files were found to copy. IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 @echo Template was copied without error.        

PowerPoint:mac users

Things are slightly different on the Mac. There is no blank.potx merely there is the concept of a Default Theme.thmx file. You can create a thmx file by saving your template from PowerPoint 2016(PC) or PowerPoint:mac 2011 merely not PowerPoint:mac 2016. Click File / Save Equally and select the file format from the format drop down.

To set it as the default, save the file in the corresponding location according to your version of PowerPoint:

Note that in both of these cases, access to the Library binder on OSX is gained in Finder by clicking Become from the carte bar whilst property down the alt primal.

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