Two same-named templates, redux

[Tim Murray]

System: MacBook Pro, 10.6.2, PowerPoint 12.2.3

I have one custom PPT template in my user templates folder, named TBT.potx.
It is the only file of that name on my entire hard disk. When I open my
regular presentation and click Slide Layouts, I get three entries:
- All Layouts
- TBT
- 1_TBT

To remove one of the TBTs I thought of an approach to clean house by force,
so I changed its file name to temp.potx. I hoped that by renaming it
PowerPoint would think it was gone and remove the references.

But it didn't help: When I reopened the file, the layouts are still there.
And further, if I remove the template entirely from my disk, they are also
still there.

Anyone know a way to clean these off?

 

[Iggles14]

Tim --

I'm not an expert, so there is a bit of guesswork in my answer here.

I had similar problems when I first started using PPT 2008. As near as I can tell, the 1_TBT comes about if you apply the template a second time. It also appears to happen if you insert slides from another presentation and chose "keep original format."

This behavior is perfectly reasonable: one of the formats could have been updated, so the two could be different even though they have the same name.

To eliminate the problem, select all in slide-sorter view, and apply a completely different template. I use one of the standard MS templates. Then (still with all slides selected) reapply your TBT template.

Duncan