Templates

Where a layout is one slide's shape, a template is a whole presentation kept to start from. The quarterly review that has the same eight sections every time. The customer pitch where only the name and the numbers change.

Making one

Save a presentation as a template once it has the structure you want: Save as template under ⋯ in the editor's top bar. After a build from a document you attached in the conversation, the same button is offered right under the result — save it as a template, and the next one is filled in with new text while the design stays. Starting from a template gives you a copy to work in, so the template itself stays as it was.

Using one

On Home, the Templates tab lists your templates, each with Use. It opens a conversation that starts from the template and asks What should the new copy say? — write what changes: date, headline, price. Start without the template lets go of it.

The template is filled, not redrawn. Only the text changes; colours, images and placement stay as you saved them. Want several — the same poster for five dates? Write one line per copy, and they are built as one material with a page for each.

You can also choose a template under Template on any proposal in the conversation. See Ordering in the conversation.

Finding one again

The library filters, searches and sorts, and can be grouped into folders. Worth using once you pass a dozen: a template you cannot find is a template you rebuild from scratch, which was the thing templates were for.

Template or layout?

If you are about to save something, the question is how much of it you want next time:

One slide

A layout. Available in every presentation built in the same frame shape from then on.

A whole deck's structure

A template. You start a new presentation from it.

Saving a whole deck to reuse one good slide is the common mistake, and it makes the template library harder to use for everyone.