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Navifia tab → Config: Settings (Layouts / Elements / insert position), Export / Import setup, shortcuts, indicators, theme/master, and the templates folder.

Layouts, Elements, and indicator colours have their own chapters — this page covers the remaining Configure work: templates folder, Import/Export setup, and team rollout.

When to use it: roll house layouts and ribbon prefs to a team with one .navifia.json, or point everyone at branded ContentLayouts.pptx / Shapes.pptx.

Related: Layouts · Elements · Visual indicators · Keyboard shortcuts. Excel-side prefs: Excel · Configure.

Configure Settings Layouts tab
Configure → Settings… → Layouts — pins and Open folder.

1. Templates folder (rebrand foundation)

Navifia reads two template decks from a folder (default: Documents\Navifia Templates):

File Drives
ContentLayouts.pptx Slide Layouts (cover, section, columns, glossary, …)
Shapes.pptx Elements (text boxes, source notes, tables, logos, …)

Change the folder: PowerPoint → Getting started → Browse… — the only picker. Shared by both add-ins (Excel Set Default theme colours also read from here).

See the current folder: Configure → Settings… → Layouts tab → Open folder.

Replace the two files with your branded decks (same filenames). Add slides/shapes freely — they become selectable in Settings with no code change. Curate pins in Layouts and Elements.

2. Export / Import setup

Two separate bundles (not interchangeable): one for PowerPoint, one for Excel. Both write a shareable .navifia.json.

PowerPoint — Configure → Export setup / Import setup

Exports: which layouts and elements appear on the ribbon, indicator colours, keyboard shortcuts, the pinned theme/master choice, and Excel insert position.

Does not export: the Templates folder path (each machine points at its own copy of the decks).

Import: applies the layout and element choices, merges other settings, and refreshes the ribbon immediately. Insert position is also applied in Excel so both apps stay aligned.

Excel side

Excel has its own Export setup / Import setup (shortcuts, Smart formatting, Quick sizing, Spotlight, Set Default, insert position). See Excel · Configure.

Typical team rollout

  1. Drop branded ContentLayouts.pptx and Shapes.pptx into the templates folder (or a shared drive folder + Browse… on each PC).
  2. Team lead: Settings → pin layouts/elements; Configure indicators / shortcuts; Excel Smart formatting / Quick sizing as needed.
  3. PowerPoint Export setup → send .navifia.json to the team → each person Import setup.
  4. Excel Export setup → second file for Excel-side prefs → each person Import setup in Excel.
  5. Teammates still need the template decks locally (or via the shared folder path).

Factory setup (installer)

On first run, if the installer placed factory-setup.navifia.json (PowerPoint) / factory-setup-excel.navifia.json (Excel) in the Navifia Templates folder and the profile has never applied one, that bundle imports once automatically. Existing user configs are never overwritten by this path.

3. Other Configure entries (quick map)

Control Where documented
Settings… — Layouts / Elements / Excel insert position Layouts · Elements · Excel Sync
Set theme and slide master Layouts
Configure indicators Visual indicators
Configure shortcuts Keyboard shortcuts
License / Getting started / Diagnostics Getting started (License group in both apps)

Troubleshooting

  • Import did nothing visible — wrong host file (Excel vs PowerPoint bundle); open the matching app. Layouts still empty → template decks missing or wrong folder (Browse… / Open folder).
  • Teammate’s layouts look unbranded — they imported the JSON but still have starter ContentLayouts.pptx; replace the decks on their machine or point Browse… at the shared branded folder.
  • Insert position differs Excel vs PowerPoint — re-import the setup that carries insert position, or set Excel insert position in PPT Settings and Export again.

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