How do I Update PowerPoint 2013 Slide Deck Preview Thumbnail?

I often copy previous presentations and revamp them for my next presentation. I notice that after changing the title slide in PowerPoint 2013 the embedded thumbnail.jpeg file is not updated. Ordinarily I would not care, but recently I am presenting to two
competing comanies and I cannot have the branding for one company on the presentation for another.
Short of completely recreating the deck, is there a way to force the update of the thumbnail.jpeg file in the PPTX?
Thanks!
Matthew
Matthew McDermott, MVP SharePoint

OK, I discovered that You can go to Backstage and chose Properties | Advanced Properties | Summary | Save preview with picture. Uncheck and save then recheck and save and PowerPoint will refresh the thumbnail...unless it doesn't. Which was true for half
of my decks.
For those I:
Renamed the file to zip
Deleted the thumbnail.
Renamed the file back to PPTX
Opened in PowerPoint.
Let PowerPoint perform the repair.
Toggle the preview setting as above
HTH,
Matthew
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