Achievers (Achievers.com) would like to be able to find and element across all presentations and change it. For example a logo or an image that was out of date could be changed in all presentations forever.

Templates are not a replacement for Global Elements. Themes are halfway there because they are global.

Sometimes a presentation needs Global Elements that persist on many, many pages and are liable to change when: your colleague gives you the correct name of the project, or the send date changes because you’ve been working on the deck for a few days.

And sometimes you want to decide later to add a logo watermarked to the corner of every slide. Or you need to change the location of some of some Global Elements to make room for even more Global Elements such as the project phase, or the attention, contact info, etc.

Perhaps Global Elements could be an evolution of the Stickers feature, or perhaps Stickers and Themes get rolled into a new Libraries paradigm.

As for Global Layouts, perhaps there could be an Enable Global Layout switch on the elements within a slide or on the slide itself?

Thanks for reading.

Its great if you work with government organisations. They often require you to stick to a [useless] design.

Yes This!!!

For example on all my slide pages i normally have the Date + Client Name & Project name + Page Number (Dynamic Field).

So when i create a new presentation, i just adjust one master page with these global elements and the presentation templates are updated throughout.