Edit a presentation with AI

Nine operations and nothing else

Add a slide, delete a slide, move a slide to a new position, update the text in one box, swap a slide's layout, swap the deck's theme, rename the deck, regenerate a slide from scratch, and generate an image for a picture box. That is the complete vocabulary. Anything it cannot express as one of those nine, it will tell you about rather than attempt.

Every turn is a proposal

The backend records operations and never writes to the deck itself. They arrive in the panel as a readable list, each line naming its target: delete slide 4, move slide 7 to position 2, swap layout on slide 3, generate an image for the hero box on slide 1. Three buttons sit under the list: Apply, Discard, and Refine, which sends the proposal back with your correction rather than starting the conversation again.

Applying also saves

When you apply, the operations and the cleared proposal are written in one go, so the deck version and the fact that you consumed the proposal cannot come apart. That means an applied chat turn is a save point you can return to from version history, which is a useful safety net when you have asked for something structural like rewrite every slide title in plainer English.

Two operations finish after you apply

Regenerating a slide and generating an image are both slow, so they are kicked off once you approve rather than while the assistant is thinking. A regenerated slide shows as generating and fills in; a picture box shows as pending until its image lands. Adding a slide works the same way: the assistant plans the role and the layout, and the copy is written by the fill step afterwards.

It can look things up before it answers

The assistant can list the available slide purposes, fetch the layouts registered for a purpose, inspect what boxes a specific layout has, and run a web search or read a page. That last pair matters when you ask it to update the market figures on slide 6, because without it the assistant would be editing from memory. What it never does is invent a layout or a box that does not exist, since it checks first.

How it works, in three steps

1. Step 1

   Say what you want changed

   Plain language, naming slides by number. Rewrite slide 3 in plainer English. Move the pricing slide before the case studies.

2. Step 2

   Read the proposed operations

   Each line names its target and its effect. Nothing has touched the deck yet.

3. Step 3

   Apply, Discard or Refine

   Refine sends your correction back with the proposal attached, which is faster than restating the whole request.

The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the guide Edit your deck with the AI assistant.

Limits worth knowing

• Nine operations. It cannot resize or reposition a box, restyle text, change colours, or export.
• It edits one deck. It has no access to your other decks, your files or your account.
• The transcript holds the most recent 200 messages.
• Regenerated slides and generated images run after you apply, so a turn is not finished the moment the list appears.

See it on a finished piece

Quarterly business review deck

10 slides

Investor pitch deck

12 slides

Sales proposal presentation

11 slides

Questions people ask

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