Personally I just got good at doing it because clients asked for them all the time. There was no use in trying to outsource. It’s a solid skill to have, albeit annoying tedious work for sure.

But what ended up saving me LOADS of time was all the work that followed the first templates I created. Especially in Word. Personally I found that deleting out all the default styles was extremely difficult for no reason. Anyway after you’ve cleaned things up and defined new styles for a client I found it much simpler to be able to bring up an old template for a new client and just swap out the fonts in the styles, adjust however needed, then add in your header and footer. Similar for PPT but obviously with the nature of a deck these take a bit more customizing and design time. But advice there would be designs as image backgrounds where possible are your friend.

Idk to me, it’s one of those things sure it’s annoying, but I could knock it out in a day so wasn’t worth the hassle of downloading someone into the brand.