Presentations
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.
Export to PDF first
Accepted attachments are PDF, plain text, PNG, JPG, WebP and GIF. Word's own format is not on that list, so use File then Save as PDF, or print to PDF. Nothing is lost that matters here, because the extraction step reads the text layer, and a PDF exported from Word carries a clean one. Copying the text into the prompt box also works when the document is short, up to 8,000 characters.
Heading levels are the outline
A document that uses real Word heading styles converts far better than one where headings are just bold text. The extracted text keeps that hierarchy legible, and the planner reads a Heading 1 as a section worth its own part of the deck and a Heading 2 as a point inside it. If your document was styled by hand, spend two minutes applying heading styles before exporting. It changes the result more than any prompt wording.
Long documents need a slide budget you choose
A 30 page handbook has more sections than a sensible deck has slides. Rather than letting it compress everything into whatever fits, name the number of slides and say what each part should be worth. One slide per major section and a single summary slide for the appendices is a better instruction than asking for a comprehensive deck.
Numbered clauses do not stay numbered
Policy and contract style numbering survives into the extracted text but does not become slide numbering, because slides carry a list slot with its own bullets or numbers rather than a clause tree. If the clause references matter, say so in the prompt and they will be written into the text of the point instead of being lost.
Tracked changes and comments
Accept or reject changes before exporting. A PDF printed with markup visible puts revision balloons and struck out text into the extracted content, and the planner has no way to know which version you meant. Comments are usually dropped by the PDF export, but deleted text shown with a strikethrough is not.
How it works, in three steps
Step 1
Clean up in Word
Apply heading styles, accept tracked changes, and remove the cover sheet if it is only administrative.
Step 2
Save as PDF and attach it
Build from files under the prompt box takes it. Up to five files at 25 MB each.
Step 3
Name the slide count and the sections
Say how many slides and which headings deserve their own. That is the instruction that stops a handbook becoming mush.
The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the guide Turn a document into a presentation.
Limits worth knowing
- Word files are not an accepted upload type. Only PDF, TXT, PNG, JPG, WebP and GIF.
- Attaching any file needs a Starter plan or higher.
- 50,000 characters per file are read. A long handbook is cut off at that point.
- Word styling is not carried through. Fonts, colours and table borders come from the deck theme instead.
See it on a finished piece
Questions people ask
Why can I not just upload the .docx?
The extractor accepts PDF, plain text and images. Word's format is not on the list, so export to PDF, which takes a few seconds and reads cleanly.
Does it matter if my headings are only bold text?
Yes. Real heading styles give the extracted text a legible hierarchy, and the planner uses that hierarchy to decide what deserves a slide.
What happens to my document's fonts and colours?
They are ignored. The deck takes its typography and palette from the theme you choose, which is what lets one click restyle every slide later.
My document is 60 pages. What should I do?
Export only the sections you want to present. Extraction stops at 50,000 characters, and a deck built from everything is worse than a deck built from the right chapter.
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
Turn rough notes into a presentation
Notes are written for the person who took them. They skip subjects, use arrows instead of verbs and assume context that lives in your head. Turning them into slides is mostly a job of inferring the argument that the shorthand implies.
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.
Make slides from screenshots
There are two different jobs hiding in this request, and mixing them up is why people are disappointed. Reading the words out of a screenshot is one job. Putting the screenshot itself on a slide is the other. They use different parts of the product.
More finished work of this kind is on the presentation examples hub.