Cheatsheet

Getting started

Install the add-in

Pick one of the three ways on the install page.

Use the email your PowerPoint runs on.

Open Pretty

Click pretty on the Home ribbon. The task pane opens on the right.

Send a first prompt

Attach some notes with + in the composer and try:

Turn the attached notes into one slide. Use a layout from
our slide pool and keep the numbers exactly as written.

Make it yours

Open the menu, then Settings → Preferences for language, appearance and compatibility. All preferences.

Best practices

Do	Don’t
Select targeted slides or shapes, then say the exact change: “Shorten these bullets to one line each; keep the formatting.”	Leave the target or result open: “Fix this.”
Work in multiple chats in parallel. You can start multiple chats on different slides in parallel for maximum efficiency.	Wait for the task to finish before starting a separate new task.
Batch related fixes in one message: “Match the figures to the attached spreadsheet and update the title and captions.”	Send one message per small tweak.
Start from an approved layout: pick one under Layouts in the menu, or ask Pretty to reuse one.	Give Pretty content without any layout guidance.
Give content and sources upfront: text, figures, units, dates, excerpts. Say “no web research” when you don’t need it.	Make Pretty guess, or search for facts you already have.
Give concrete feedback: “Keep the layout; cut the title to two lines and remove the icons.”	“Try again.” / “Make it better.”
Start new chats for unrelated tasks to avoid clogging up the context.	Pile unrelated tasks into one long chat.
Match the model to the task: a lighter one in the model picker for quick edits, a higher one for dense slides built from a source.	Max out every task, or stick with a setting that keeps failing.

Common tasks

Build a slide from your material

Attach notes, images, PDFs or spreadsheets with + in the composer, or drag them onto the pane. Then ask for the whole task.

Turn these notes and this image into a one-slide client
update. Use the figures as written and a layout from our
slide pool. No web research.

A .pptx is not read as a file. To reuse a deck, upload it as a slide pool (next task). Referencing your work.

Reuse a slide from a slide pool

Your team’s approved slides live under Layouts in the menu. Hover a slide and click Add to chat, or just ask. Pretty searches the pool for you.

Turn my Q3 update into a slide. Use a layout from the
slide pool.

Have a deck of your own worth reusing? Open the menu, then Layouts, and upload it. Reuse its slides as references in chat. Slide pools.

Turn a screenshot into editable shapes

Attach a screenshot, a whiteboard photo or a sketch. Pretty rebuilds it as native shapes on your template, not as a pasted picture. Crop tight to the part you need.

Rebuild this exactly as a slide: same four quadrants, same
labels, same left-to-right order. Use our template's colours
and fonts, not the ones in the screenshot.

Screenshot or sketch to slide.

Output too boring? Get creative

Ask for mockups. Compare the directions, pick one, then remix it.

This slide feels flat. Give me some creative mockups for it.

Go with the second direction, but keep our colours and
the original headline.

Add icons, logos and maps

Open the menu, pick Icons, Logos or Maps, and click a result to insert it. Or name what you need in your message.

Give each of the four pillars a matching icon, and put the
Siemens, SAP and Allianz logos in a row along the bottom.

Photos are the exception: Pretty does not search them. Insert one from Photos in the menu, select it, and ask Pretty to build around it. Assets.

Reuse a prompt as a skill

Typing the same brief again and again? Save it under Skills in the menu and run it with /. Or type /write-a-skill and Pretty drafts one by asking how you work.

/weekly-status for the Q3 numbers in the attached file

Skills.

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Getting started

Best practices

Common tasks

Build a slide from your material

Reuse a slide from a slide pool

Turn a screenshot into editable shapes

Output too boring? Get creative

Add icons, logos and maps

Reuse a prompt as a skill

​Getting started

​Best practices

​Common tasks

​Build a slide from your material

​Reuse a slide from a slide pool

​Turn a screenshot into editable shapes

​Output too boring? Get creative

​Add icons, logos and maps

​Reuse a prompt as a skill

Getting started

Best practices

Common tasks

Build a slide from your material

Reuse a slide from a slide pool

Turn a screenshot into editable shapes

Output too boring? Get creative

Add icons, logos and maps

Reuse a prompt as a skill