Who can do it: (Manage) Company admins, Content admins, Brand admins (Use) All team members with edit access. See FAQ.
Which plans: Starter, Business, Enterprise, Education
Which platforms: Browser, Desktop, Mobile
Branded Slide Layouts let your organization publish approved, on-brand slides that anyone can drop into a deck, so a presentation stays on brand from the first slide, without starting from a finished template or a blank frame.
NOTE: (Enterprise) Company admins can assign the Brand admin role to be the only user who can manage Branded Slide Layouts. (Other paid plans) By default, any user can manage Branded Slide Layouts. Admins can restrict this setting. For more information, see Control who can manage your Brand Center.
How Branded Slide Layouts differ from templates
A template is a complete board: an end-to-end sequence of frames you duplicate and then edit as a whole. A Branded Slide Layout is a single, modular slide, or a building block with your brand's colors, fonts, and style already applied, that you drop into a deck one at a time.
Use a template when you want a full, pre-built board to start from. Use Branded Slide Layouts when you want to build a deck slide-by-slide, mixing and matching official building blocks, while staying on brand throughout.
Building a Branded Slide collection
Depending on your plan, Company admins or Team admins can save slides to a shared collection, organize them into collections, and publish them for the whole organization to use.
On Enterprise, Company admins can assign the Brand admin, and Content admin, roles to delegate management of Branded Slide Layouts.
Save a branded slide to a collection
- On a board, select the frame or slide you want to save.
- From the context menu, click Save as > Add slides to library.
- Choose an existing collection, or create a new one and give it a name.
Save a slide to a branded layout collection for future use.
Manage a collection
To manage and edit a Branded layout collection, follow these steps:
- On any board, click Formats and Flows in the Creation bar.
- Select Slides.
- Click anywhere on the canvas to place your Slide Format.
- Click Add template.
- Click Edit collection.
Access and manage collections in your Branded Slide Layouts.
NOTE You can only modify a collection you own. If you need to edit a collection someone else created, ask the owner to make the change, or duplicate the collection under your own ownership.
NOTE Publishing currently applies to the entire organization-wide.
Using a layout in your deck
- On your board, drop a Slide container where you want to add a layout.
- Click Add template, then choose a layout from your organization's published collections.
- The slide is added with your brand's colors and fonts applied.
- Edit your content.
- Repeat to add more layouts from the same or different collections, building your deck one slide at a time.
Frequently asked questions
By default, any user on a Starter, Business, or Education plan can create and publish a Branded Slide Layout. Admins can restrict this option to admins only in Brand Center. On Enterprise, only Company admins can manage Branded Slide Layouts, and can also assign the Brand admin role to delegate layout management.
Not currently — only the collection's owner can modify it. This is a known limitation the product team is aware of.
Not currently — publishing a collection makes it available to your entire organization. There's no option yet to scope it to a specific team or personal space.
A template is a full board you duplicate and edit as a whole. A Branded Slide Layout is a single reusable slide you drop into a deck alongside other slides, one building block at a time.