--- title: "Slides: Generating & Editing Decks" description: "Generate a deck from a prompt, edit it slide by slide, choose an aspect ratio, present full-screen, and collaborate with comments and version history." --- # Generating & Editing Decks This page covers day-to-day deck work in [Slides](/docs/template-slides): generating a deck from a prompt, editing it slide by slide, presenting it, and collaborating with comments and version history. It's written for anyone using Slides, not just developers. ## Generating a deck from a prompt Ask for a deck the way you'd brief a person: "Generate a 10-slide pitch deck for a coffee subscription service, audience is investors." The agent plans the slides first, then builds the deck one slide at a time so you watch it appear in the editor rather than waiting for the whole thing to land at once. Keep refining in the same conversation — "add a pricing slide after slide 3," "make this section shorter" — and only the slides you asked about change. Every new deck defaults to a 16:9 widescreen canvas. Ask the agent to switch it to 1:1 (square), 9:16 (vertical — Stories-style), or 4:5 (portrait) when you need a different shape. Changing it updates the editor canvas, presentation mode, and PDF/PPTX export together, so you never end up with an export that doesn't match what you built. ## Editing slides visually - **Inline text editing.** Double-click any text to edit it directly on the slide. - **The bubble menu.** Click a block — a heading, a bullet list, an image — to get quick formatting options for just that block. - **The slash menu.** Type `/` to insert a new block — a heading, bullets, a table, a code block, an image placeholder — without leaving the keyboard. - **Reordering.** Drag slides in the filmstrip to reorder them; undo and redo work the way you'd expect. - **Rich embeds.** A slide can hold a hand-drawn diagram or a live-rendered chart alongside your text and images, not just static HTML. Select text on a slide and hit `Cmd+I` to hand the agent that exact selection — see [Talking to the Agent & Creative Context](/docs/template-slides-agent) for how selection-aware edits work. ## Presenting full-screen
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" } /> Click **Present** to go full-screen, with the arrow keys (or space bar) to advance, controls that fade out until you move the mouse, and your speaker notes visible only to you. Press `F` to toggle fullscreen and `Esc` to exit. ## Comments and real-time collaboration Anyone with edit access can leave a comment anchored to a specific slide — optionally quoting the exact text or element it's about — and reply in a thread. Resolve a thread once it's addressed. Multiple people (and the agent) can edit the same deck at the same time without clobbering each other's changes; see [Real-Time Collaboration](/docs/real-time-collaboration) for how that works under the hood. ## Sharing a deck Share a deck the same way you'd share any Agent-Native resource: keep it private, share it with specific teammates as a viewer or editor, or generate a public read-only link anyone can open without an account. See [Sharing](/docs/sharing) for the full model. ## Restoring an earlier version Every meaningful change — yours or the agent's — snapshots the deck first, so nothing is ever silently lost. Open version history to see a timeline of past snapshots and restore any one of them; restoring takes its own snapshot first too, so a restore is never a dead end. ## What's next - [**Design Systems & Media**](/docs/template-slides-design-and-media) — brand tokens, images, and import/export - [**Talking to the Agent & Creative Context**](/docs/template-slides-agent) — prompts by task and selection-aware edits - [**Developer Guide**](/docs/template-slides-developers) — the deck, slide, comment, and version actions behind this page - [**Slides overview**](/docs/template-slides) — back to the app summary