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Templates set the fonts, colours and layout every new deck and Word document uses, so client work looks like your firm’s without anyone formatting it by hand.

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Where templates are stored

Templates are grouped as Presentations (PowerPoint) and Word documents. Filter with All, Word or PowerPoint. Who can add library templates is set in Workspace library. Project admins manage project templates.

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Add a template

Select New template and choose how to make it. Build a presentation template picks fonts, colours and type sizes in Hebno. Name it, then set: Sample slides update as you change settings. Match to accent fills in the other colours from your accent colour, and Hebno warns when a text colour may be hard to read on its background. Fonts installed with Office look the same for everyone. Someone without a web font installed sees a similar font when they open the PowerPoint. Select Save template, or Discard. Upload a file adds a Word (.docx, .dotx) or PowerPoint (.pptx, .potx) file of up to 25 MB. For PowerPoint, Hebno reads the fonts and colours from the file’s theme, so decks look the same in Hebno as in the downloaded file. A badge shows whether each template is Uploaded file or Built in Hebno.

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Manage templates

Open a template’s menu for these actions. Each owner (library or project) has one default per format, shown with a Default badge. The first template of each kind becomes the default.

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Which template applies

Hebno picks in this order: the project’s default, then the library’s default, then the built-in look.
  • Brand look for PowerPoint: your brand colour with Arial.
  • Built-in for Word: your organisation name and logo in a clean layout, with the name and logo in the header and a page number at the bottom right.
A deck with no pinned template uses the default, so it changes when the default does. Choosing a template for the deck pins it. When someone saves or downloads Word or PowerPoint, they can choose a library template, a project template or the default. See Save and export. When a research run applies a template that fits the request, it uses the template’s structure and shows it as a chip in the work trace.

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Switch a deck’s template

Open the Template panel above the deck. It shows Default: project name or the pinned template. Choose another template and the deck redraws in it. Switching clears the deck’s own colour and font changes. If the deck has been changed from its template, the panel shows the name followed by edited. To drop the deck’s own colours and return to the template’s look, select Reset and confirm Reset this deck’s theme?. See Deck design.

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Save a deck’s look as a template

When a deck has the look you want, open the Template panel and choose one of:
  • Update project name to write the deck’s fonts, colours and sizes back into the template it is based on.
  • Save as project template to keep the look for this project.
  • Save as library template to make it available to every project.
A saved template includes fonts, colours and sizes. Colours set on single slides apply only to that deck.

Deck design

Change a deck’s look by asking.

Workspace library

Manage the library of shared templates.