A coworker hit me with another one of those “this should be easy but how the hell do you do it?” type questions.
He had a sixty some odd page presentation in the works when he clicked Format>Apply design. A few hours, several slides and many changes later, he decided that he does not want the design. But how? There is no remove design function, help has nothing (I even put up with that annoying paperclip!) and changing the background, etc… does some, but not everything we need it to do (there are now drawing objects stuck in all of the slides.) Yikes… any thoughts?
In slide layout view, hit the “apply design” button on the toolbar. In the design application box, you have to maneuver to the general MS Office templates instead of just the presentation ones. In my templates folder, I have many folders of different template types, then at the very bottom, below the folders, is a lone “blank presentation” template. Apply that and it should wipe out everything.
Hopefully you have that blank one out there. Why the hell they didn’t put it in with the other Power Point ones is beyond me. In fact, I’m gonna go move it there now.