Not by default anyway, but it could! Read on… Here is the part I never knew Saving your blank.potx file in this folder won’t get picked up by PowerPoint. If you have templates there, they will be available in the backstage of PowerPoint when you click File / New under a tab named CUSTOM or PERSONAL (depending on the configuration of your Office installation). potx files changed to:Ĭ:\Users\UserName\Documents\Custom Office Templates From PowerPoint 2013, the location that templates get saved to when you create and save them as. The %AppData% part is an alias which when entered into the address bar of Windows File Explorer will map to your specific user data folder as in this example:Ĭ:\Users\JoeBloggs\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates\ĭon’t get this location confused with Custom User Templates. The mysterious default locationįor years, I was under the impression that the default location was hard coded in PowerPoint as follows:
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But that assumption changed during a conversation with John Korchock on the Microsoft’s Answers forum.īefore I continue, if you don’t know how to change the default template, take a look at this article from Steve Rindsberg which provides instructions for many different versions of PowerPoint.
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This filename cannot be altered and is fixed by PowerPoint and until recently, I thought the location of the file couldn’t be changed either. It’s a fairly well hidden feature of PowerPoint that when it starts, it looks for a file called blank.potx. Have you ever wondered how to change the default template that’s used to create the blank presentation as you open PowerPoint?
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