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Quickly copy a design theme from one PowerPoint presentation to another

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How many times have you started a PowerPoint presentation and then realized you needed to use a different template? Fortunately, there's an easy way to copy over the theme from one presentation to another.

This works in both PowerPoint 2007 and PowerPoint 2010. First, open both your source and destination documents (and close any others if more decks are open). Go to the View menu and click the Arrange All button so you can see both at the same time:

Arrange All

Now, select the source deck (pictured at right below) and then click on the thumbnail of the slide you want to copy the theme from. Once selected, click the Format Painter icon directly above it on the Ribbon:

Use Format Painter in source deck

Now click on the destination deck and then click the thumbnail of the slide you want to receive the theme:

Apply format to thumbnail in destination deck

You may need to click twice: Once to select the target deck and a second time to apply the format to the thumbnail.

This technique works best if you use it on a new presentation, since all new pages will be based on the new theme. But you can apply the format to all slides of an existing presentation if needed. Just double-click the Format Painter button before selecting the destination deck and then click on each of the slide thumbnails individually to apply the theme.

Suzanne

Comments

  • Anonymous
    November 02, 2012
    THIS DOESN'T WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous
    November 13, 2012
    Thanks, Suzanne!  This worked great for me and saved a lot of time.

  • Anonymous
    February 01, 2013
    Frank, It worked just fine for me. One think I noticed though was if I applied a Title Page format to a non-title page slide, it wouldn't change that slide into a title page. I had to manually select a different slide layout.

  • Anonymous
    February 05, 2013
    This is really annoying. It copies the color scheme, but it also copies the entire Slide Master template for the imported slide. All I want is the color scheme.

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2013
    Thanks, Suzanne!  This worked great for me and saved a lot of time.

  • Anonymous
    February 27, 2013
    Thanks, you totally saved my bacon!

  • Anonymous
    March 03, 2013
    This saved me so much time last week! Thank you!

  • Anonymous
    March 13, 2013
    Worked first time. Nice clear instructions. Thanks Suzanne.

  • Anonymous
    April 03, 2013
    This was fantastic - THANK YOU!  PERFECT, CLEAR and EASY TO FOLLOW!  

  • Anonymous
    April 19, 2013
    Thank you, Suzanne. It saves my time.

  • Anonymous
    May 01, 2013
    Thanks Suzanne! great tip!

  • Anonymous
    May 23, 2013
    Thank you, works perfectly. Was trying for ages to do this.

  • Anonymous
    August 19, 2013
    Worked like a charm. In fact, I had selected all in my target document (Ctrl+A), and then just copied one page from the source document, and that formatted the entire target document in one go. Saved me 1-2 days of re-formatting. Thank you!!!

  • Anonymous
    September 18, 2013
    That helped me quickly!