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February 28, 2023

It's beautiful what you can do with a little ai

Create the slide you need in seconds with our generative ai. DesignerBot has built custom presentation structures for you, reworked your copy and even created unique images to use. Now you can also ask DesignerBot to generate custom slides, with visuals and content based on your prompting. Because they are built on Smart Slides, they'll automatically adapt to your theme and additional edits—integrating seamlessly with the rest of your deck.

Ready to try it?
  • Click Add Slide and navigate to DesignerBot's Slide AI
  • Describe the topic of your slide, adding any specific details you want to include.
  • Let DesignerBot do the rest!

Find your team resources faster

As your Team libraries grow, it can be increasingly difficult to find the resources you need. That's why we've added the ability to create custom tags for your Team Assets and Presentation Templates. Enable your team to find and add the right headshot or Sales Deck template in a click.

Give your team the tools they need to get better work done, faster. Learn more about our Team Plan

Quick theme builder

Themes define the look of your presentation—ensuring your presentation is visually consistent and on brand. Our simplified Theme Editor means you can create your theme and get started on your content faster. Just add your colors, fonts and logo and get started building your presentation. You will always have access to the full range of options available in the advanced editor to tweak your font sizes, colors and footer. Save your theme to use again later.

To help you get started even faster, PowerPoint users can now import theme essentials from a PPT file. Select your file and we'll create a theme based on the fonts and colors used in your PowerPoint theme. Import your fonts or replace them with our built-in fonts.

A better version history

We've improved our version history experience to make it easier to find the version you are looking for. Just hover to preview the version and click to apply, or choose to copy that version as a new slide. Collapsed groups makes it easier to sort through a longer history and find the right version quickly.

Rich slide notes

Make presenting a little easier. Now standard formatting options like bold, italic and bullets are available in slide notes.

New
February 13, 2023

Smarter Text Editing

Meet your new AI-powered writing assistant

Say goodbye to writer’s block. Let DesignerBot rework your copy and inspire a more impactful message, faster.

  • Rewrite. Just select copy and hit rewrite. DesignerBot will craft a new way to phrase your content.
  • Make shorter. When presenting, keeping text to a minimum on a given slide is best practice. Easier said than done. Let DesignerBot summarize your text for you.
  • Make longer. When you need something more, DesignerBot is here for that too. Speed up your workflow by getting your main point down and let DesignerBot elaborate.
  • Change tone. Ensure your content hits the right tone by adjusting it to be friendlier, more assertive or more professional.
  • Custom prompt. But really, DesignerBot is here for all your unique needs. Translate text into another language or ask it to generate new content. Try "Summarize the benefits of using AI to generate content" or "Rewrite in the voice of William Shakespeare"

In other DesignerBot news, we've made improvements to our presentation generator. In addition to being faster, you'll get better results, more slides, and more visual variety.

A smarter text editing experience

You'll notice better performance, display quality, and functionality. To benefit from these updates while editing pre-existing slides, just hit Update Slide to get the latest version.

  • Select multiple text blocks. Copy/paste and change styling across multiple text blocks, drag to rearrange, and even drag into other items or columns.
  • Standardized and more reliable keyboard shortcuts, spellcheck, and support for emojis! 😁
  • Improved language support.
  • Better quality text display, including more accurate kerning, ligatures and hyphenation.
  • Additional block options like equation and code are now available beyond of Classic Slides.
  • Improved fidelity and functionality when converting to Classic and exporting, including the ability to select text in an exported PDF.
  • More control over bullet point and numbered list styling.
  • Lots of pesky text-related bug fixes!

Layouts for right-to-left text

In addition to supporting right-to-left text, we've added the option to create themes that use appropriate layouts. Open your theme editor and turn on RTL text in the typography menu. This feature is currently in beta. We would love to hear what you think and where we can do better. As always, feel free to drop us a note with suggestions and comments in the help center.

Timeline Improvements

Enjoy more flexibility in our Timeline Smart Slide, including control of milestone height and new milestone styles. Choose numbered or bulleted milestones and change icon frame styles. Get the template

Link slides

Storytelling isn't always a straight line. Select any text and in the link menu, choose to add a hyperlink or link to another slide in the deck.

New
January 30, 2023

Streamline Your Workflow

Copy + Paste Slides

We've added new ways to copy and paste slides across decks quickly. Find copy and paste tools in the editor three-dot, more menu—or select multiple slides in Organize view, and use the right click menu or standard keyboard shortcuts.

Scale Slides in Organize View

Scale slides up to get a closer look at content, or down to fit more slides in one view.

Resend Invitations

Don't let invitations get lost in the email backlog again. Resend collaboration invitations in a click, or copy an invite link to send via Slack or add to a doc. Links will only work for expressly invited collaborators, so your content remains secure. Find this new option in the presentation collaboration menu. For our Teams, we've added this functionality to workspace invitations as well.

Bug fixes:
  • Improvements to commenting and assigning slide UI
  • Prevent in-app notifications from interrupting slide editing
  • Fix to copy+paste line element functionality
New
January 10, 2023

Meet DesignerBot

Create unique presentations ✨automagically✨ with DesignerBot (beta)—our built in AI. Describe the presentation you want, and we'll generate a beautiful deck with story, content and visuals already in place.

Ready to try it?
  • Click New Presentation and navigate to DesignerBot
  • Describe the topic of the presentation, adding any specific details you want to include.
  • Let DesignerBot do the rest!

Built on Smart Slides that auto-adapt as you edit, it couldn't be easier to further customize and iterate. Looking for just the right image? DesignerBot has you covered there, too. Enter a prompt and our AI will generate a custom image to visualize your unique story.

Presentations come together in a snap with AI at your side—from start to finish.