create slides based on pre-define template

[rakeshbpatel]

How can i create slides from the template and override elements pragmatically? For example, Template slide has var_title, var_name, var_address as TextBox or TableCell, I need to create slide from that template and override these var_* variable with real value.

[CaptKludge]

You need to add or modify the layout on the Master in your template presentation to include the shapes you want. These need to be placeholders so they're inherited by the newly created slides. You can change the name of the placeholders to be something more meaningful via the Selection Pane in PowerPoint however the names are not inherited when you add a new slide, but you can get to the idx of the layout placeholder with this statement:
idx = shape.placeholder_format.idx

Your code can go through the shapes on the layout to find the meaningful names and then keep track of the names and there associated idx values. It's a little more bookkeeping code, but it works.