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BurninLeo
BurninLeo

Reputation: 4484

R Markdown PowerPoint - Couldn't find layout named "Title Slide"

I am creating a PowerPoint Presentation from R markdown (.rmd) in RStudio.

---
title: "My Presentation"
author: "My name"
date: "6 4 2022"
output:
  powerpoint_presentation:
    reference_doc: template.pptx
---

The template is found, but an error occurs when rendering:

[WARNING] Powerpoint template warning: Couldn't find layout named "Title Slide" in provided reference doc. Falling back to the default included with pandoc.
[WARNING] Powerpoint template warning: Couldn't find layout named "Section Header" in provided reference doc. Falling back to the default included with pandoc.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1561

Answers (1)

BurninLeo
BurninLeo

Reputation: 4484

The problem - obviously - is that there are no master slides with those names in the template.pptx. Yet, when I edit the file and open the "edit master slides" view in PowerPoint, there is a title slide, and a slide with title and content and so on.

However, my Office 365 is not in English but in German. And, of course, Office will also use translations for the internal names of master slides.

What looks like a solution is going the master slides, right-click on the title slide -> rename layout -> and change Titelfolie to Title Slide. Repeat for all other layouts.

Yet, the problems will continue...

Could not find a 0th placeholder of type body
Fehler: pandoc document conversion failed with error 63

So, the actual solution is to go into the Office settings, change the display language to English and the create and edit a new PPTX file.

Upvotes: 4

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