When you open a new slide deck you are met with a modal that suggests templates ( layouts ) after choosing design. In this view, because of the ( + ) roll over i thought i was able to pick and choose differend template slides for the skeleton i new i had to go through. 

So:
I now i need a headline
and then a slide with a headline and 4 sub categories
and then a slide with two 50/50 split columns 
and then a slide with 5 columns and then a headline slide and then and then and then...

i know this before i open my slide deck - so let me prepolulate my slide deck with templates