Frequently asked questions

That gallery only contains fixed, built-in styles. There's no straightforward way to design or edit your own table styles for PowerPoint, the way you can in Word. The Table Branding Manager adds that missing editor: you design your own table style, using your brand's colors and formatting, and add it to the table style gallery in PowerPoint (and Word and Excel).

Yes. Open the template in the Table Branding Manager. You export the style to a .ksstyle file and import it into a Word, PowerPoint or Excel file. For Excel, conversions take place, because Excel table styles have different capabilities than Word and PowerPoint. See how that works on the Full edition page.

Unlike PowerPoint, Excel already has its own working table style editor. The Table Branding Manager doesn't compete with that, it makes sure a style you designed also ends up in Excel. Excel table styles are built differently, so conversion takes place there. You can then fine-tune it with Excel's own editor if you want.

With the Full edition you design styles: add, duplicate, edit, rename, delete, and set one as the default style. The Import-only edition can only import a ready-made style and set it as default, nothing more. New or updated styles in a template aren't carried through to existing documents by default. That way everyone can apply the brand identity, without the risk of someone accidentally disrupting it. See the pricing on officebrandsuite.com (opens in a new tab) for both editions.

Both. Changing a table style in a template usually doesn't work retroactively: documents that were already created from that template aren't updated automatically. In Word this can happen, but only if the document is attached to that specific template file and the 'Automatically update document styles' option is on; it's off by default. PowerPoint and Excel have no such link. That's why the Table Branding Manager doesn't just open and edit templates (.potx, .potm, .dotx, .dotm, .xltx, .xltm), but also regular documents, presentations and workbooks directly.

No. The Table Branding Manager is a standalone Windows application and doesn't need Office to install or run. See all system requirements

No. It's a 64-bit Windows application (Windows 10 or 11) and doesn't run on macOS.

Yes, with the Replace color feature. You see every color the style uses, across every part, in one overview, automatically deduplicated to a single row per color. Choose the replacement per color and everything is updated at once, as a single step in the undo history.

Excluding VAT. See the pricing on officebrandsuite.com (opens in a new tab)

They're simply preserved. Whatever is already in a style but isn't supported by this editor isn't removed or overwritten. Come across an important style property that's missing? Feature requests are welcome. Get in touch

Capabilities differ per application, and the tool has been tested extensively. Even so, a specific combination of properties may occasionally render slightly differently in one of the applications than in the tool. If that happens, submit a support request through the application itself. Using the Import-only edition? That goes through your IT department; the application tells you how. See 'Honest about the limits' for an overview of the differences between the applications.