Team Templates

Team Owners and Librarians can now build presentation templates for members to start from.

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‍Team Templates are plug-and-play starter decks that help members kick off their presentations and maintain critical storylines. With presentation structure, design elements, and key slides already in place, members can quickly replace content to customize their story without getting bogged down with the details.

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Quickly convert existing presentations into Team Templates, or build new templates from scratch. Learn how.

Team Folders

Now, all members can create Team Folders to organize shared content. Whether they're collaborating on a project or working with their department, members will be able to seamlessly create and configure folders that allow them to share with the right people at the right time.

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Team Owners can view and manages all folders from the Team Resources center. Learn more.

Deep text search

As your presentations scale, it can be a pain to hunt down old content. Now you can locate the presentation or slide you're looking for with just a few key words. Our new, comprehensive slide search searches across all of the text in your account to show you the most relevant results.

Go ahead and try it out from your presentation library or by adding a new slide.

Chart improvements

We did a deep dive on chart templates and made a whole slew of improvements we know you'll love! You can look forward to an optimized data import, as well as a ton of new functionality like:

• Additional layout options for multi-chart slides
• Option to annotate absolute or percentage changes between points
• Smart date formatting for category labels
• Improved data highlight styling
• Customizable line weight for line, area, and spline charts

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This release includes new collaboration features and a help center revamp to help you get more done, faster:

• @mention your teammates in comments
• Assign collaborators to the slides they’re responsible for creating or presenting
• ⌘? Reference copy, paste, undo, and other advanced keyboard shortcuts in the editor
• Access FAQs and step-by-step tutorials from the help icon

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The last 5%

We hear you: Sometimes Smart Slides are exactly what you need, and sometimes they only get you 95% of the way there. Starting today, you can make those final tweaks to Smart Slides by choosing to break the design ai and convert them into Classic Slides.

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Classic Slides give you unlimited flexibility to design your slides as you see fit with a more familiar authoring canvas. On Classic Slides, you have access to:

• Text: Use any font you’d like, or stick with the fonts in your theme. Multi-block text styling and widgets for displaying code and equations level-up traditional text editing.
• Color: Customize text, fill, and lines with any color you’d like, or choose a color in your theme.
• Smart components: Leverage powerful charts and tables in your Classic Slides.
• Positioning: Position elements wherever you’d like with the help of alignment guides. Use grouping and layering tools to get the perfect look.
• Shapes and media: Draw paths, add shapes, and dress up your assets with our library of device frames for images.

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So go ahead: add that last item, adjust your margins, and make those icons just slightly smaller. Convert to a Classic Slide when you really need it – or use a Classic Slide to start from scratch – and let Smart Slides handle the rest.

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Read more from our CEO about our decision to develop Classic Slides.

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We know how much time you invested in those decks – don't lose your old work. Import your existing slides into Beautiful.ai, and incorporate them into your new presentations.

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Our presentation importer prioritizes precision, maintaining every possible visual detail we can from your original slides. Your imported slides will be fully editable and inherit from your presentation's theme wherever possible, so even those old slides will blend in with your new look. Any .pptx file will work, so you can renovate Keynotes and Google Slides while you're at it.

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Learn more about importing your presentations.