Presentations
Outline to slides
This is the case where you are not asking for ideas. The structure is settled, agreed or handed to you, and the only job left is design and wording. An outline pasted into the prompt box is treated as a specification rather than a suggestion.
The prompt box expects this shape
The placeholder text in the topic field literally offers it as an option, showing lines beginning Slide 1, Slide 2, Slide 3. Numbered lists, dashed lists and a line per slide all read the same way. You do not need a special mode or a different upload path, and the outline can sit alongside a paragraph of context above it.
Match the slide count to your point count
This is the setting that decides whether one point equals one slide. The planner is instructed to hit the requested count exactly and to flex by one only when the narrative strictly demands it, so an outline of nine points with the length left at three will be compressed into three slides. Set the slider to nine and each point gets its own.
What is still decided for you
Your outline fixes the running order and the subject of every slide. It does not fix the design. Each point is still matched to a purpose and then to a layout, so a point about pricing tiers lands on a pricing layout with tier cards and a point listing two case studies lands on something built to hold two blocks. The wording under each heading is written too, because an outline line is a title and not a slide.
Add a hint per line when the shape matters
A short parenthetical is read as instruction. Writing pricing tiers as a table, or timeline across four quarters, or three columns after a line will steer the layout choice for that slide. This is the cheapest way to get a specific shape without hunting for it in the layout picker afterwards.
When your outline is longer than the cap
A free account tops out at 6 slides and a paid one at 20. An outline of 30 points needs to be split. Generate the first part, then generate the second as its own deck and paste the slides together, or group related points into one line before you paste so the count comes down without losing anything.
How it works, in three steps
Step 1
Paste the outline
One line per slide. Numbering is optional, a line break is enough.
Step 2
Set the length to your point count
The slider under the box. This is what makes one line become one slide.
Step 3
Add shape hints where you care
A few words in brackets after a line steers which layout that slide gets.
The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the guide Add, reorder and restructure slides.
Limits worth knowing
- Slide count is capped at 6 on the free plan and 20 on paid plans, so a longer outline has to be split or grouped.
- The prompt box holds 8,000 characters including your outline and any context.
- The planner may flex by one slide when the narrative demands it, so an exact count is close to guaranteed rather than absolute.
- An outline gives titles. The body copy under each title is written for you and will need reading.
See it on a finished piece
Questions people ask
Do I have to number the lines?
No. A line break per point is enough. Numbers help when your outline includes sub points, because they make the hierarchy unambiguous.
Why did nine points become five slides?
Because the length slider was on five. It is treated as a hard target, so set it to the number of points you pasted.
Can I force a specific layout for a line?
Not by name, but a hint like as a table or as a four step timeline after the line reliably steers the choice. You can also swap the layout afterwards.
Does it add slides I did not ask for?
Not when the count matches your points. If you ask for more slides than points, the extra room is used for a cover, a divider or a closing slide.
Make your own presentation
The button opens the generator with this use case already described. Change the wording to match yours, generate, then edit anything you like.
Create a presentation with OneCraftRelated pages
Convert a Word document to slides
Start with the awkward part. A .docx file is not an accepted attachment type, so the route runs through PDF. Once that is done the useful thing about a Word file, its heading hierarchy, is exactly what gives the deck its shape.
How many slides your presentation gets
One control decides more about the finished deck than the theme does. Slide count is not a suggestion to the writer, it is a target it is instructed to hit exactly, so choosing it badly produces a deck that is padded or crushed rather than one that is simply longer or shorter.
Convert a PDF to a presentation
A report and a deck are different objects. The report argues in paragraphs and the deck asserts in headlines, so this is not a page for page conversion. The PDF is read for its content and the content is rebuilt as slides.
More finished work of this kind is on the presentation examples hub.