Custom linked Quick Style presets in Powerpoint 2013? - styles

I am newbie in Powerpoint and have a very weird problem. Is it possible somehow to add my own shape styles to Quick Styles? If I choose one of presets and then change something (color fill for example) this style is not anymore linked to quick style. And I can't find how to add on my own. And delete all that I don't need.
Any thoughts how to achieve that? I want to create my own shape styles. And link them all over the presentation in order to change quickly color schemes of all elements in presentation. I want to change one linked style to automatic apply to all shapes. Is it possible somehow?
Thanks,
Peter

We are building a PowerPoint add-in to do that. You are able to create styles (and select the attributes like color position etc.) then store them to a Library for later use / sharing. Let me know if you are interested to test the current version.

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