Master slide bullet styles

[kane]

I'm pulling my hair out here. I'm trying to create a PowerPoint template with strict text formatting that is applied globally. I thought this is what the master slide did, but it doesn't seem to work.

This is really simple. In the master slide, I select the bulleted list and change all of the bullets to the color orange. If I look at other slides in master view that have a bulleted list already typed out, these lists also inherit the orange bullets.



Next I close out of master view and create a new bulleted list from scratch. The list comes out with black bullets instead of orange, and if I want them orange I have to recolor them manually. Is this normal behavior? If so, then what's the point of formatting this on the master slide at all?

Open to any suggestions anyone can recommend, I've completely given up at this point.

Thanks!