Presentations
Section divider slides
A divider is a deliberate pause: it tells the audience the last thing finished and a new one is starting. Ten layouts carry that job, from a restrained numbered rule to an oversized chapter numeral, a glass panel on a gradient and a full bleed photograph.
Quiet dividers and loud ones
Four of the ten are restrained: a numbered rule on a neutral surface, a chapter number card with a vertical rule, an agenda progress divider with a section N of 5 marker, and a bi colour horizon split. Four are emphatic: a bold centred title on a full brand field, an oversized two digit chapter numeral, a gradient section title and a glass card on a brand gradient. Two use photography: a framed photo with a caption and a full bleed photo with a scrim. In a consulting deck the quiet ones look right; in a keynote the loud ones carry the pause.
Chapter numbers and progress
Most of these layouts carry a chapter number, and one carries a progress marker reading section N of a total, which is the only layout that tells the audience how much is left. That is worth having in a long session and worth avoiding in a short one, where announcing five sections makes a 20 minute deck sound like a day. The number is text, so it is typed rather than generated from the slide order.
How many dividers a deck needs
Ten layouts exist but a deck rarely needs more than four dividers. Of the decks published here, the compliance training deck uses three, the keynote three and the board meeting and all hands decks one each. A divider between every two slides is noise. The useful rule is one divider per section the audience could name afterwards, and the section titles should match the agenda slide word for word.
The footer, and what it will not do
The theme footer is a band 106 pixels tall carrying a section label on the left and a page number on the right, and 804 of the 1,071 slide templates use it. Page numbers render zero padded. The section label is hidden by default outside the editor, and the toggles for hiding the page number or showing the label live only in the editor store, so they reset on reload and do not affect present mode, exports or the share link. The per slide section label override does persist, because it sits on the slide.
How the AI picks this slide
The outline inserts dividers when the deck is long enough to have named sections, which in practice means ten slides or more with a clear structure in the brief. The fill writes the section title and the scope line from the outline's own section names. If you want dividers in a shorter deck, the reliable route is to add them yourself from the library afterwards.
How it works, in three steps
Step 1
Name the sections first
Use the same words as the agenda slide. A divider that renames a section makes the deck feel longer than it is.
Step 2
Add the slide from the library
From Library on the slide rail with the Role filter set to divider. Ten layouts come back.
Step 3
Keep the chapter numbers consistent
The numeral is typed, not generated, so check it after reordering slides.
Step 4
Set the transition once
A transition is a deck default with a per slide override in the rail menu, and eight options exist including none. A divider is the one slide where a transition earns its keep.
The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the guide Add, reorder and restructure slides.
Limits worth knowing
- Chapter numbers are typed text and do not renumber themselves when slides move.
- The footer's section label is hidden by default everywhere except the editor, and the toggles for it do not persist.
- There is no automatic section navigation: a divider does not link to the slides in its section.
- Only 804 of the 1,071 templates use the theme footer, so a full bleed divider may show no page number at all.
See it on a finished piece
Slide examples
Finished single slides on this layout, each one built from a real template and written out in full.
Questions people ask
How many divider layouts are there?
Ten templates carry the divider role: a numbered rule, a chapter number card, an agenda progress divider, a bi colour horizon, a bold centred title, an oversized chapter numeral, a gradient title, a glass panel, a framed photo and a full bleed photo.
How many dividers should a deck have?
One per section the audience could name afterwards. The published decks here use one to three, with the training and keynote decks at three, which is the high end for a twelve slide deck.
Do the chapter numbers update automatically?
No. The number is a text slot, so it stays as typed when slides are reordered. Check the numbering after any restructure.
Can I show a progress bar through the deck?
Only the agenda progress divider carries a section N of five marker, and it is typed. There is no automatic progress indicator anywhere in the runtime.
Will the section label show in present mode?
No. The footer defaults to showing the page number and hiding the section label everywhere except the editor canvas, and the editor's toggles are not saved. A per slide section label override does persist.
Should a divider carry a transition?
It is the best place for one. Transitions are set as a deck default with a per slide override in the rail menu, and there are eight options including none, so a single motion on the dividers is enough.
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.
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Presentation fonts
There is one font control that matters and it sits at deck level. Choosing a family there overrides whatever the theme brought with it and applies to every text box on every slide, which is almost always what you want and is certainly what a consistent deck needs.
Generate slides from text
The prompt box is not a search field. It holds 10,000 characters, which is about 1,300 words, so a whole brief fits and gets used. This page is about what happens to that text on the way to becoming slides.
More finished work of this kind is on the presentation examples hub.
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