> But know I'm forced by my management to apply an openoffice slide > layout,
How annoying! But I've had the same and ended up doing what Marcin (in another response) did: created my own beamer template that matched what our corporate style people wanted... > My second thought was to put the template as a background image on all > my slides, but this is a little complicated considered my knowledge of > LaTeX and beamer (and that's why I'm using org!). This should be easier. The following is untested but putting a line like this at the start of your org file may do the job: #+latex_header: \usebackgroundtemplate{\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth]{<your_fig>}} Try this out and let us know how you get on. Happy to help if you get stuck. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.2.4-399-g4e6222