How to designate personal template as default in PowerPoint Office 365

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I would like to designate MyFile.potx as the default PowerPoint template. How do I do this? I am using the version that comes with Office 365, and the instructions I found online for other PowerPoint versions (2013, 2016) don't seem to work. I am using Windows 10 and am not an administrator of the Office 365 setup, just a user.

For example, when creating a New presentation, there is no 'Personal' or 'Custom' choice in my version of PowerPoint:

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(Here is what I see when I follow @harrymc's suggestion in his answer. It is the bottom of the dropdown menu under the left pane under Design. 'Browse for Themes' is at the end.)
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Best Answer

When creating a New presentation, there is no 'Personal' or 'Custom' choice in my version of PowerPoint

This was the problem that brought me to this question. Using PowerPoint for Office 365, I had a provided potx file and placed it correctly into C:\Users\<UserName>\Documents\Custom Office Templates\, but could not get the option for Personal templates to show where the documentation and screenshots in this thread said it should be showing.

The fix was to open the template file itself and re-save it with my Office 365 version of PowerPoint. The template was likely created with a previous version of PowerPoint.

After re-saving and making sure the newly saved version is in the Custom Office Templates folder, I was able to see a Personal section when creating a New file.

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