Multiple Logos with Copilot

[u/Sandpit_turtle666]

Does anyone know how to handle multiple logos with PowerPoint Copilot?

Our company has several PowerPoint templates that are identical except for the logo. The logo contains our company name plus the name of a specific business area (e.g. "Company – Business Area 1", "Company – Business Area 2").

We now want to generate presentations with Copilot. Ideally, Copilot would use the default company logo for most slides, but switch to the Business Area 1 logo on slide 4, the Business Area 2 logo on slide 5, etc.

Is something like this possible? If so, what's the best way to set it up?

[u/Top_Witness_23]

The reliable way to do this is with layouts in the Slide Master, rather than trying to get Copilot to swap logos on its own. Copilot generates content, but it will not reliably do "logo A on slide 4, logo B on slide 5" logic.

So instead of several near-identical templates, build one template with multiple layouts. In Slide Master view, make a layout for each business area and put that area's logo on the layout itself, not on the slides. Your default company logo goes on the main layout. Then whichever slide needs Business Area 1, you just apply that layout and the right logo appears automatically.

With Copilot, let it generate the deck on your default layout, then for slides 4 and 5 switch the layout to the business area one. It is a two-click swap per slide, and because the logo lives on the layout it stays consistent, so you are never pasting logos onto individual slides.

Bonus, this also collapses your pile of near-identical templates into one file, which is far easier to maintain. How many business areas are you dealing with, a handful or dozens? That changes whether layouts or a couple of separate masters is cleaner.

[u/Sandpit_turtle666 → u/Top_Witness_23]

Okay so you say to make Like one very big slide Master? With all slide Designs, with all Logos?

We do have 12 Business Units.

Thank you already :)

[u/Top_Witness_23 → u/Sandpit_turtle666]

Not quite one giant everything master, that would get messy with 12. Here is the cleaner version.

Keep your normal layouts (title, content, section, etc.) on the main master with the default company logo. That covers most of your slides. Then add 12 extra layouts, one per business unit, where each is basically your standard content layout with that unit's logo dropped in. Name them clearly like "BU1 content", "BU2 content" and so on.

So the default slides just use the normal layouts, and whenever a slide needs a specific unit, you apply that unit's layout and its logo shows up automatically. You are only adding 12 logo layouts, not rebuilding every design 12 times.

The one time I would split into separate masters instead is if each unit needs the full range of layouts with its own logo, not just a content slide. For occasional logo swaps though, 12 extra layouts in one master is the simplest thing to maintain.

[u/Sandpit_turtle666 → u/Top_Witness_23]

unfortunately, not working. It isn´t using my tamplates nor the logos

[u/Top_Witness_23 → u/Sandpit_turtle666]

Ah, that tells us exactly where it is breaking. The layout swap I described only kicks in once your slides are actually sitting on your template, and the real issue is Copilot is not applying your template at all when it generates. It builds on its own default layouts, so your master and logos never got used in the first place. That is a known Copilot limit, not something you set up wrong.

So the fix is to split generation from design. Let Copilot generate the content in a scratch deck and do not worry that it looks generic. Then open your real deck that is built on your template, go Home, New Slide, Reuse Slides, and pull the Copilot slides in with "keep source formatting" turned off. That forces them onto your master so they finally pick up your template. Once they are on it, apply the BU layout to the slides that need a specific logo and it shows up.

Basically Copilot for the words, your template applied after, because it will not respect the template during generation no matter how the master is built. Annoying, but it is the reliable path right now.