Regenerate a slide

Regenerate: new content, new layout, from the assistant

Ask the assistant to redo a slide and it proposes a regenerate operation. After you apply, that slide is written again from scratch. The layout is chosen again too, deliberately excluding the layouts every other slide is currently using so you do not end up with two identical designs. The deck's theme is held fixed, so one regeneration cannot restyle the whole deck.

It anchors on the title and summary

Regeneration is not a random reroll. It reads the slide's current title and one line summary and writes fresh content against those. If you edited the title, your edited title is the anchor. This is the lever worth knowing: change the title to what you actually want the slide to say, then regenerate, and you get a different slide rather than a rephrasing of the same one. A slide with neither a title nor a summary has nothing to anchor on and is left alone.

What regenerating destroys

Every text edit you made on that slide, and every styling change. Because a new layout may have entirely different boxes, the old content edits and style overrides cannot be re-keyed and are cleared. One thing is kept: speaker notes you wrote yourself. Freshly generated notes are only adopted when your notes were empty, so a regeneration will not overwrite a script you spent time on.

Reset to AI version: keep the design, drop your edits

In the slide's menu in the rail there is Reset to AI version, and it is a different thing entirely. No AI call, no new layout, no cost. It clears your content edits and your styling on that slide and puts back what the generator originally produced. Use it when you have made a slide worse by editing rather than when the generator's version was wrong. It is greyed out when there is nothing of yours to clear.

Undo: step back one change at a time

Fifty steps are held in memory, and a regeneration lands as a single step rather than fifty small ones, so one undo puts the whole slide back. That memory does not survive closing the tab, which is where version history takes over. Every save is a version, an applied assistant turn is a save, and restoring a version is itself reversible.

How it works, in three steps

1. Step 1

   Fix the title first

   Regeneration writes against the slide's title and summary, so editing the title is how you steer the result.

2. Step 2

   Ask the assistant to redo it

   It comes back as a proposed operation. Nothing happens until you apply, and the fill runs after that.

3. Step 3

   Or reset instead, if the original was fine

   Reset to AI version in the slide's menu restores the generator's own content with no AI call and no cost.

The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the guide Undo changes and restore an earlier version.

Limits worth knowing

• There is no Regenerate button on the slide. It is reached by asking the AI assistant.
• Regenerating clears every text edit and every style change on that slide, because the layout may change.
• A slide with no title and no summary cannot be regenerated, because there is nothing to write against.
• Undo holds fifty steps and lives in the browser tab. Closing the tab loses it, and version history is the longer memory.

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