Presentations

Reorder slides

The rail down the left is the deck's table of contents and its editing surface. Slides are dragged into a new order, duplicated, deleted, and each one shows the purpose it was built for, which is what makes the order easy to judge at a glance.

Create a presentation with OneCraftDrag reordering, what a duplicate copies, and the two ways to add a slide
The slide rail and the From Library button in the slide builder, highlighted
The rail: drag to reorder, duplicate or delete, and add a slide from the library.

Drag to reorder, and the label tells you what you are moving

Each card in the rail shows a live thumbnail of the slide plus the purpose it was created as: cover, agenda, metrics, comparison, closing. Reading the purposes down the rail is how you spot a structure problem, because four content slides in a row is visible as a word repeated four times long before it is visible in the thumbnails. Grab a card and drag it up or down, and the count at the foot of the rail tells you where you are.

Duplicate copies everything properly

The copy lands directly after the original and becomes the active slide. It is a genuine deep copy: content edits, styling and any elements you dropped on the slide are cloned with fresh identities, so editing the copy does not reach back into the original. That matters most for a slide carrying a chart or a table you spent time on, which is exactly the case where people duplicate.

You cannot delete the last slide

Delete is disabled when a deck is down to one slide, because a deck with no slides is not a thing the editor can render. Everything else deletes freely, and a deletion is one undo step like any other. If you want a fresh start, delete down to one and then add from the library rather than looking for a clear deck button, which does not exist.

Two ways to add

From Library opens the full catalogue of 353 designs with a purpose filter, and the slide arrives as a shell with placeholder text in the right shapes. Blank Slide beside it starts from the plainest title and body design. Both append rather than inserting at the cursor, so adding then dragging into place is the normal rhythm.

On a phone the rail lies down

Below 1024 pixels the vertical rail becomes a horizontal strip and the canvas becomes a scrolling feed of every slide. Reordering still works by dragging, sideways instead of down, and the two add buttons collapse to icons. The per slide menu keeps all four actions, so nothing is lost on a small screen except the room to see them at once.

How it works, in three steps

  1. Step 1

    Read the purposes down the rail

    Each card names what the slide is for. A repeated word four times over is a structure problem you can see before you read anything.

  2. Step 2

    Drag the card

    Vertically on a desktop, sideways on a phone. The slide count sits at the foot of the rail.

  3. Step 3

    Duplicate before you experiment

    A duplicate is a full deep copy, so trying a different version of a slide costs nothing and does not risk the original.

The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the guide Add, reorder and restructure slides.

Limits worth knowing

See it on a finished piece

Questions people ask

Can I move several slides at once?

No. Reordering is one card at a time. For a large restructure, ask the AI assistant, which can propose several move operations in a single approved turn.

Does duplicating share anything with the original?

No. Content, styling and any elements you added are deep copied with new identities, so the two slides are fully independent.

Where does a new slide land?

At the end of the deck. Add it, then drag it into position, which is one extra gesture but keeps the add flow predictable.

Can I reorder on a phone?

Yes. Below 1024 pixels the rail becomes a horizontal strip and you drag sideways instead of down.

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 OneCraft

Related pages

More finished work of this kind is on the presentation examples hub.