Powerpoint: managing templates across remote users

[conticreative]

We have a serious problems when it comes to standardize our Microsoft Office PowerPoint templates.

Because of changes made to the corporate template over the past few years, whenever I design a master template and distribute it to the group, with warning of not merging the older templates in the new presentations, because the users are busy and can't be bothered at the time, we always receive presentation back that use a mix of older templates. This stems from the fact that some users copy and paste slides from older presentations and then email them across the remote workgroup. The end result is usually a mess and a difficult one to handle because I am not always in the loop.

I want to establish a policy and an easy to follow guide for merging presentations.

One problem is that while I am a very good graphic designer, my real job is being a freelance open source web developer. I work with this company because I used to be an employee of the older company they formed, but I am not involved in the day to day.
In fact, I don;t even know all the members of the group, but only the ones I used to work with,, such as the CEO, CFO, office manager and a smattering of other members.

So my questions are:

Is there an easy way in PowerPoint to make sure all pages use only one master template?
Is there a way to have a template converted to the current master template upon importing a slide from another presentation?
What do others do to handle this problem?

Thank you kindly for any help you can provide.

 

[SkipVought]

Hi,

Are you referring to the Master Slide when you refer to "the current master template"

There on ONE and ONLY ONE Master Slide in a Presentation, AFAIK.

Skip,

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