Figma Slides. Setting default Layout Guides

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Hi! First, thanks to the Figma team for all the hard work.

Now, let’s talk about Figma Slides Templates. To edit the template styles, I have to select a slide first — which feels a bit unintuitive. In Figma, when you click on the canvas without selecting anything, you can access the file’s styles. Can we bring that same concept into Slides?

When I open the template selector, I can edit the styles there through a dropdown. Is that really the best or only way to manage styles in Figma Slides? I don’t think so.

Colors & Text Styles: I can delete them, but only through a pretty complex interaction — right-click?

Layout Grid: How can I set a default grid? Right now, I have to manually add my custom grid to every new slide I create. If we can't set a default, the feature kind of loses its purpose. :(

Andy Lang

New Member

Yes, there is still no way to set a default layout for new slides (by pressing the + between two pages). But you can copy/paste the layout onto all slides. It’s just a bit annoying.

ReginaMc

New Member

I too am struggling with lack of templating page options.

Margot_Gabel

Active Member

Layout guides reset to default when creating a new slide, even if all the other slides are using a template, how silly is that? Figma Slides team, please fix this!

Using Figma since 2018.