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Pretty is as useful on a slide that already exists as on a blank one. Tell it exactly what to touch.

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Select first, then ask

Select the shapes on the slide before you type. The composer shows a badge for the selection (its tooltip reads “Click to reference in message”), and the agent works on those shapes rather than guessing which part of the slide you meant. Without a selection, “make the boxes bigger” on a slide with three sets of boxes is a coin flip. With a selection it is unambiguous.
Select nothing when you want the whole slide reconsidered. Select something when you want one thing changed and the rest left alone.

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Ask about the deck first

Ask a question about the presentation that is open and Pretty hands it to a subagent built for that. You get a row labelled Searching your deck (this may take a while). It reads the slides — text, titles, tables and visuals — and changes nothing.
It extracts the deck’s text to a working file, searches that, and renders the strongest candidate slides when the text alone cannot settle it. Charts and pictures are not in the extracted text, so a question about them always costs a snapshot and takes longer. Narrow questions are fast; “summarize everything in this deck” is a full read.
Speaker notes and comments are not included. Deck search sees slide content only, so “which slide has the pricing caveat in the notes” comes back empty even when the caveat is there.
The answer comes back as data, without recommendations. Ask for the change as a separate message once you have the facts — and ask for slide numbers, so you can point at them:

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What to ask for

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The step rows during an edit

Three rows do the work. Knowing what each means tells you where a run went wrong.
Step rows including PowerPoint, Snapshot and Reviewing design

The write-check-critique cycle, as it appears in the pane.

Snapshot and Reviewing design are Pretty checking itself, not extra work you asked for. On a slide that took several attempts you will see the cycle repeat.

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Undoing a change

Two routes back:
  • PowerPoint’s own undo, since everything Pretty inserts is native.
  • Revert slide? in the chat, which re-inserts the previous version of a slide Pretty changed. It confirms first: “This will re-insert the previous version of slide … into your presentation.”
Editing an earlier message and resending gives you the same choice: Continue and revert or Continue without revert. See Managing chats.

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Keep your view where you put it

By default the pane jumps to each slide the agent touches. On a long edit across many slides that is motion sickness. Turn off Follow the agent’s edits in Settings → Preferences: “Jump to each slide the agent inserts. Off keeps your view where it is.” See Preferences. You can keep working in PowerPoint while a chat runs. Select shapes, type into placeholders, use the ribbon. Pretty picks up whatever you have selected when you send your next message.
Admin mode cannot edit slides. The mode picker in the composer switches between Edit and Admin. Admin mode talks to the workspace admin assistant, which manages shared configuration and has no access to your deck. Stay in Edit for any slide work.

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When an edit does not land

  • Nothing changed. Check the PowerPoint row. A rolled-back write leaves the slide untouched by design; expand the row for the error.
  • It changed the wrong thing. Select the shapes and say it again. A selection beats a description.
  • It keeps going in circles. Stop the run with Stop generation and give a narrower instruction. One change per message works better than five.
  • Text is cut off. Say so. Pretty can shrink type, reflow, or cut copy, but it needs to know which you prefer.