title: Creating a Powerpoint Slide Master with VBA
body: <p>I am currently trying to create a Powerpoint (2010) SLide Master with VBA and am running into some challenges.</p>
  
  <p>1) Is it possible to assign names to the Placeholders in the Templates so that the object is addressable via this name in the presentation afterwards? I have tried to assign names with <code>&lt;.Name="..."&gt;</code> which doesn't seem to work. The objects in the actual presentation based on those Layouts still have random default names.</p>
  
  <p>2) How do I assign names to CustomLayouts?</p>
  
  <p>3 How do I load a really blank SlideMaster / the CustomLayouts within it?</p>
  
  <p>PS: I am not sure about the templates tag, are those other templates?</p>