Get the names of the slide layouts in the master slide of the default PPT API template. Use the layout names when you add slides to a presentation.

Import the PPT package so that you do not have to use long, fully qualified names for the PPT API classes.

import mlreportgen.ppt.*

Create and open a presentation.

ppt = Presentation('myPresentation.pptx');
open(ppt);

Get the names of the slide masters in the presentation. The default template has only one slide master.

masters = getMasterNames(ppt);

Get the names of layouts in the slide master.

layouts = getLayoutNames(ppt,masters{1})

layouts = 1×13 cell
    {'Title Slide'}    {'Title and Vertical Text'}    {'Vertical Title and Text'}    {'Title and Table'}    {'Title and Picture'}    {'Title and Content'}    {'Section Header'}    {'Two Content'}    {'Comparison'}    {'Title Only'}    {'Blank'}    {'Content with Caption'}    {'Picture with Caption'}

Add a title slide to the presentation and replace the title in the slide.

slide = add(ppt,'Title Slide');
replace(slide,'Title','My Title');

Close and view the presentation.

close(ppt);
rptview(ppt);