Unable to Remove Unused or Auto-Generated Figma Slides Styles

Figma Slides template management is just non-sensical UX at this point (with so many bugs that I’ve been reporting many times..) and yet Slides has received zero improvements whatsoever in more than a year.
( We just continue using it because Powerpoint and Google Slides are still 10 times worse 🤷‍♀️ )

Same - it’s worse than ever. We’re moving back to Google slides, even though we can’t use custom fonts in slides, having those is not worth the nightmare of Figma’s half baked slides function

Having this issue right now with colors also—it’s just the same two colors labeled “custom style” over and over again burying my actual template miles down the list 

Hey All, thanks for continuing to share your feedback!
 

We appreciate you flagging this and sharing how it’s impacting your workflows. I completely understand how frustrating this can be, especially when it slows things down in practice. This is still something our Slides team is aware of and actively tracking.
 

While I don’t have any new updates to share just yet, I’ve passed along the recent feedback here to help reinforce the impact and priority. As soon as I hear more on potential improvements, I’ll be sure to update this thread. Thanks again for your patience and for continuing to surface these details. It’s genuinely helpful for the Slides team.

Hey All, thanks for sharing your feedback!

I hear you, and I completely understand how this has been impacting your workflows. Rest assured, this is still something our Slides team is aware of and actively tracking.

While I don’t have any new updates to share just yet, I’ve passed along your feedback to the Slides team to help reinforce the impact and priority. As soon as I hear more on potential improvements, I’ll be sure to update this thread. Thanks again for your patience and understanding. 

Big +1. This is such a huge pain and makes templates (what should be a core feature) almost unusable in Slides –  copying and pasting content from different places to assemble decks is a very common workflow. Today, doing so makes it extremely difficult to cleanly manage the styling of a deck. 

Slides is potentially such a good product,
Our team loves the grid layout, auto-layout and being able to utilise all our library assets – it is the difference between our organisation needing 5 and 30 Figma seats, far more so than any Ai feature – but this issue makes it impossible to manage all our decks at the scale we need.

Have you ever been in slides and had the problem of 1000% different style templates cluttering up your deck?

Well quit hitting your head against your desk because we have a solution for you! (unofficial but tested!)

1: Copy all your slides into a Figma Design file

2: This is an opportunity to double check all your type and colour styles and remove any duplicates or things that are slightly off, or near to finalised colours for eg.

3: Copy all your final frames into a new slides deck. Et voila! There should now be one single style template present in this fresh Slides deck. 

Why does this happen in the first place you might be asking?
When you copy from multiple sources, multiple  presentation decks, various figma design files, those styles are carried over and given their own style template. So you can see how if multiple people are pulling in from multiple sources things can get out of hand pretty quickly.
From here you can refine your type and color variables much more easily.

The single source copy paste seems to solved the issue for us!

Good luck out there!

Interesting workaround ​@Sam_O_Leary thanks for sharing!!

​@djv has there been any update to this? Our company slides are falling apart with a spam of different colour styles that have been brought in - and the team is getting really frustrated with our move to figma slides - I can’t believe how much updates have slowed