Avoid Superfluous Error Entries in Corporate Design Check

If you have updated your corporate design and users use old slides, they will receive error entries for colors that originate from the old design.

In some cases, these colors might still be accepted but they shall not be used in the future.

If this is the case for your company, you can add the colors to the empower^® Design but make them invisible in the color picker for users.

This can be done in the empower^® Admin Center.

Open the design in the empower^® Admin Center and add the respective colors.

To not display the color in the color picker, do not tick the checkbox under the eye symbol.

Then, click on the button Save on the bottom of the page.

Now, the Corporate Design Check will accept the colors but the users cannot select them in the color picker.

All colors that are used in a master template should also be added to the corporate design.

If a color that is used in the master template is not added to the corresponding design, the user will always receive error entries if they use the master template for their presentation.

For further information regarding adding colors to your designs, see Design Settings.

PowerPoint sometimes uses a transparent version of a color if a user inserts a table or other elements. If transparency is not allowed for a color in your design, this will lead to error entries.

Therefore, you might want to allow transparency for all or some colors in your design.

This can be done in the empower^® Admin Center.

Open the design in the empower^® Admin Center and navigate to the color settings.

Tick the checkbox under the transparency symbol for the respective colors.

Then, click on the button Save on the bottom of the page.

Now, the Corporate Design Check will also accept transparent version of the respective colors.

Checking title placeholders should only be enabled if the title placeholder in the master template does not have a dynamic size.

If a title placeholder in the master template is not static, the user will always receive an error entry for the title placeholder.

If you have assigned a design to a master which has dynamic title placeholder, you might want to disable the check for title placeholders to avoid these error entries.

For further information regarding the check for placeholders, see Design Settings.

If you want to avoid error entries for specific elements used in your slide master, you can set them to be ignored completely during the Corporate Design Check.

You can do this for text elements as well as other content placeholders.

As master templates can only be saved to the empower^® Library by administrators, this can only be done by administrators.

To do so, follow the following steps:

If you now save the master template and a user uses the template for their presentation, the element will be ignored during the check.