Slides Templates
Prepare, upload, and manage workspace slide templates so that the AI generates decks in your design
Slides templates define how every deck created with the Slides feature looks in your organization. A well-prepared template gives the AI a clear set of layouts, so new presentations come out in your corporate design out of the box.
This page is for workspace admins. How end users pick a template inside the chat is described in Slides.
Where templates live
You manage templates under Settings → Workspace → Slides Templates.
Use Add Template to either import a PowerPoint file or create a blank template manually.
- Upload .pptx template — your PowerPoint file is converted into the internal slide model. Layouts, backgrounds, colors, placeholders, and speaker notes are preserved.
- Create manually — creates an empty template with one starting layout that you can then design in the built-in editor.
What makes a good template
There is no special template format you have to follow — any standard PowerPoint file works. The two recommendations below noticeably improve the result:
Few, but distinct. Keep only the slides that show a standalone layout (e.g. a title slide, a content slide, a two-column layout, a comparison layout, a closing slide). Repetitions of the same layout, or pure section dividers, can be removed from the template.
Repetitions confuse the AI when it picks a layout, bloat the template unnecessarily, and increase token costs at generation time.
Name placeholders descriptively. When you label a text placeholder in PowerPoint as title, subtitle, body, or image, the AI uses that name as a description of the placeholder and fills it accordingly.
You can see this in the built-in editor after import: a placeholder labeled title appears as {{title}}, a subtitle placeholder as {{subtitle}}. The name of a slide itself (e.g. “Title Slide”, “Two Column”, “Closing”) is carried in the speaker notes as __layout_name__:Title Slide; that name survives a round trip through PowerPoint as well.
Manage templates
The ⋯ menu on a template offers the following actions:
- Edit in Editor opens the template in the built-in slides editor.
- Rename changes only the displayed name, not the content.
- Duplicate creates an editable copy — useful for spinning up a variant without losing the original.
- Delete removes the template; existing decks that were generated from it stay untouched.
Edit in the built-in editor
In the editor, you can edit background, colors, text, shapes, images, tables, and charts per layout. Changes are saved automatically.
What you see here is the layout vocabulary the AI gets to work with: every slide of the template becomes a selectable layout, and every placeholder becomes a named slot.
How the AI uses the template
Once a template is saved, end users can pick it in the chat under Tools menu → Slides → With template. The AI then generates decks based on the stored layouts and placeholders.
The end-user workflow and an example flow are documented under Slides.