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How to See Which Layouts Are Applied to Which Slides

Imagine you want to tidy up your Slide Master by deleting unused layouts. But PowerPoint won’t let you remove a layout if it’s in use on at least one slide—and if you’ve got dozens of layouts, it’s tricky to spot the duds. On Windows you’d simply hover over a layout and a tooltip lists all slides using it. That handy menu’s gone in the latest macOS build, but never mind—we’ve whipped up a VBA macro with ChatGPT that does exactly the same.
  1. Open the Visual Basic Editor via Tools → Macro → Visual Basic Editor.
  2. Insert a new module via Insert → Module.
  3. Paste this code into the module, then run it via Run → Run Macro.
  4. The macro will tack on a new slide at the end, showing each layout’s name and the slide numbers where it’s used.
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