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PowerPoint

Open a .pptx file to edit slides, text, images, tables and speaker notes, and ask the agent to revise a deck or build a new one. This page covers editing, presenting, reviewing the agent's changes and exporting to PDF.

A PowerPoint deck open in Nebula Writer with slide thumbnails on the left and slide 3, Revenue by channel, on the canvas. The agent's changes are highlighted, and the review bar shows Inspect changes, Discard and Keep.

Work with slides#

  • Slides: click a thumbnail to open it. Use + Add Slide below the thumbnails, drag thumbnails to reorder them, or right-click one for Add Slide After, Duplicate, Delete, Move Up and Move Down.
  • Content: click text on the canvas to edit it. The toolbar has Insert text box, Insert image, Insert shape and Insert table. More options, such as slide background, alt text and arranging objects, are in the More toolbar actions menu (...).
  • Speaker notes: when a slide has notes, the Speaker notes panel below the slide shows them for editing.
  • Save: press Cmd/Ctrl+S. Save presentation copy in the ... menu saves a separate .pptx.

Present#

Choose the play button (Present from current slide) or press Shift+F5. F5 starts from the first slide. Use the arrow keys to move between slides and Esc to exit.

Check objects on a slide#

Choose the small arrow at the top right of the canvas (Show object panel) to list every object on the slide. The panel flags objects that sit off the slide and visible objects without alt text. Fix all off-slide objects moves them back onto the slide, resizing them if needed.

Ask the agent#

Ask for a check before a broad rewrite:

Prompt
Check this deck for text that overflows its box, objects off the slide, inconsistent title placement and slides with more than one main idea. List issues by slide number. Don't edit yet.

Then keep the revision narrow:

Prompt
Revise slides 3 to 5 for an executive audience. Keep every number and the current slide size, use the existing style, and leave the other slides unchanged.

To check its work, the agent draws the saved slides with Nebula Writer's own slide renderer and looks at them. Nothing else needs to be installed.

Review the agent's changes#

The agent writes each edit to the file as it works and keeps a restore point. When it finishes, the review bar shows Review agent edit and the changed objects are highlighted.

  1. Choose Inspect changes to step through each change with its Before and After content.
  2. Choose Keep to keep the whole edit, or Discard to put the previous version of the deck back.

A PowerPoint edit is kept or discarded as one decision. You can't keep some changes and discard others. If only part is right, discard it and ask for a smaller slide range. While the edit waits for review, Save presentation copy and PDF export are unavailable. See Review and undo.

Export to PDF#

Choose File → Export to PDF... (Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+E). Nebula Writer saves the deck, asks where to put the PDF, then shows a preview.

The PDF has every slide. Text is rendered as images, and fonts and unsupported effects may look different from PowerPoint.