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Installing and opening

The button only appears on a fresh start of PowerPoint. Look under Home → Add-ins → My Add-ins for Pretty, open it from there, then restart. If it is not listed at all, the install did not complete. Redo it from Install the add-in.
Many organizations disable self-service add-ins, and nothing you do in PowerPoint works around that. Ask your Microsoft 365 admin to deploy Pretty centrally from Settings → Integrated apps. The details they need are under Deploying centrally for a whole organization on Install the add-in.
The pane is a web view, so a blank pane means it could not load its own assets. Close it and reopen it from the pretty button, then restart PowerPoint. If it survives a restart, your network is blocking addin.make-pretty.com or api.make-pretty.com. Ask IT to allow both.
The pane shows a status screen when it cannot reach Pretty. None of these lose work, because your chats live on the server, not in the pane.
The four screens, each naming its cause rather than failing silently:
Connection screen reading You're offline
Connection screen reading Can't reach the server
Connection screen reading Something's wrong on our end
Connection screen reading Down for maintenance

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Signing in

The add-in signs you in by opening a browser tab and waiting for you to approve it there. Most failures are that handoff going wrong.
Usually because you approved in a browser already signed in as someone else. Invitations are matched on the exact address they were sent to, so this also produces “Wrong account” on an invitation link. Use Settings → Account → Sign out, then start again from the task pane and approve in a browser profile signed in as the right person.
Pretty is built around a shared workspace, and an account without one cannot open chats. Ask an admin on your team to invite you from Settings → Members → Invite a teammate, sent to the address you signed in with. See Members and roles.

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While the agent works

A turn is already running there. Sending anyway holds your message as “Queued”. Use Send now when the turn ends, or Dismiss to drop it. If you need an answer now, open a New Chat; chats run in parallel.
A loop guard fired. The agent tried the same thing repeatedly and got nowhere, so Pretty stopped it rather than spend your budget on it. Rephrase more concretely: name the slide, name the shapes, split a big ask in two. A request that loops is usually ambiguous, not hard.
Rate limiting means the provider is receiving too many requests. Wait a moment and press Retry. A quota error means the provider account is out of credit or has reached a spending limit. Ask an admin or Pretty support to check its billing or API key under Model providers.
The conversation carries more than one turn can hold, usually from many steps or large attachments, and compaction has nothing left to reclaim. Start a New Chat and re-attach only what still matters. See Context and compaction.
“Please contact an administrator to raise it.” Your own monthly allowance is spent (a colleague’s usage does not affect it), and new requests are paused until the limit is raised or the month rolls over on the 1st. Check Settings → Usage for the figure, then ask your workspace owner or admin. See Usage and limits.
The workspace is set to bring-your-own-key and none has been added, so nobody can chat until one is. An admin adds it in Model providers.
The configured key is invalid, expired, or has no access to the model being called. Ask an admin or Pretty support to check it for the selected provider and region. See Model providers.
Your company connected its own AI service to Pretty and it did not answer. Pretty is working and nothing is lost. Press Retry; if it keeps failing, contact Pretty support and we will find out what is going on. Details, including the admin checks: AI service isn’t available.
Pick another model from Select model. If the model should be available, ask an admin or Pretty support to check the provider settings. See Choosing a model.
Check any attachments first. Remove them and send the request again. If the error continues, contact Pretty support. See AI provider rejected the request for provider and proxy checks.
Wait a minute, then press Retry. If the provider does not recover, try another available model or contact Pretty support. See AI provider overloaded for admin checks.

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Results on the slide

The PowerPoint step rolls back when it fails, so a failed write leaves the slide exactly as it was, which looks the same as nothing happening. Expand the PowerPoint row: if it errored, use Copy error, then retry with a narrower ask or send it to support. If it succeeded, click a slide line under it to jump to the change.
Follow the agent’s edits is on, so your view moves to every slide as it is inserted. Turn it off in Settings → Preferences. The slides are still written, your view just stops chasing them. See Preferences.
Logo search matches on company name and a vision model chooses among candidates, so ambiguous names resolve to the wrong brand or the wrong variant. Select the logo on the slide (the Switch Logo tab appears) and swap it in place, or ask again with the variant spelled out: “the wordmark, not the symbol”. See Logos.
Faces have different metrics, so text sized for one can spill in another. It also happens when a brand font is removed, because decks fall back to a default face on their next load and may reflow. Ask Pretty to fix the overflow on that slide, and upload the missing face in Settings → Fonts. See Brand fonts.

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Still stuck

Email support@make-pretty.com. Support lists what to include so we can reproduce it on the first try.