Build your first slide

This walkthrough assumes the add-in is installed and you are signed in.

Open the deck you want to work in

Pretty builds into the presentation you already have open, and inherits its master. Start from your firm’s template rather than a blank deck, so the output comes out on brand.

No template handy? Open any recent deck of yours. Pretty will match its colours and fonts.

Ask for a slide

Click pretty on the Home ribbon, then type into the composer at the bottom of the Chat tab. The placeholder reads “Ask about your presentation…”. Be concrete about the content and let Pretty decide the layout:

Build a slide comparing our three pricing tiers: Starter, Team, Enterprise.
Columns for each tier, with the monthly price, the seat limit, and three
bullet features. Put a one-line takeaway at the top.

Press Enter. You will see the assistant work through a series of steps in the pane.

Watch what it is doing

Each step shows up as a row with a plain-language label. Expand a row to see the detail behind it.

Step rows reading Planning steps, Find icon, PowerPoint, Snapshot and Reviewing design — A turn in the pane. Rows arrive as the work happens.

Two rows to know on day one:

Row	What it is
PowerPoint	Pretty writing to your deck. This is where shapes appear on the slide. If it fails, the change is rolled back rather than left half-applied.
Snapshot	Pretty rendering the slide and looking at its own work, so it catches overflowing text or a misaligned column before handing back to you.

The full list is in the tool reference.

Refine it

The slide is now normal PowerPoint. You can edit it by hand, or keep going in chat:

Make the Enterprise column the emphasis. Fill it with the accent colour
and give the other two a light grey outline.

To point at something specific, select the shapes on the slide first. The composer shows a badge for the selection, and the agent works on exactly those shapes. See Referencing your work.

Add an asset

Switch to the Assets tab at the bottom of the pane to search icons, company logos, editable maps and photography. Every result can go straight onto the slide, or into the chat so the agent places it for you. Pretty recolours all of it to your master.

Save it as a component

To reuse a block later, select those shapes, open the Components tab, and click Add component. Pretty captures a preview and drafts a name and description for you. Keep it private, or share it with your organization.

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Build your first slide

Open the deck you want to work in

Ask for a slide

Watch what it is doing

Refine it

Add an asset

Save it as a component

What to try next

Draft a whole deck

Screenshot to slide

Ground it in your documents

Reuse approved slides

​Open the deck you want to work in

​Ask for a slide

​Watch what it is doing

​Refine it

​Add an asset

​Save it as a component

​What to try next

Draft a whole deck

Screenshot to slide

Ground it in your documents

Reuse approved slides

Open the deck you want to work in

Ask for a slide

Watch what it is doing

Refine it

Add an asset

Save it as a component

What to try next