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Edit on the canvas

The toolbar, smart layouts, the properties panel and the right-click menu — everything you need to edit by hand.

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“Type & tone” with a giant “Aa” on electric blue

Every slide is a real canvas. Text, shapes, images and charts are objects you can select, move, resize and restyle — and editing by hand never uses credits.

The toolbar

The toolbar sits at the bottom of the canvas. Tools with a small arrow hold more tools — click the arrow to see them.

ToolWhat’s in it
SelectMove V, Hand H to pan, Scale K
ShapesRectangle R, Line L, Arrow ⇧L, Ellipse O, Polygon, Star
DrawPen P, Pencil ⇧P
TextAdd a text box T
Image / videoUpload a picture or video I
ChartsBar, Column, Line, Area, Pie and Donut
AlignLine up and spread out what you’ve selected

Smart layouts

The grid button on the toolbar opens Smart layouts: 18 layouts in four groups — Title, Content, Visual and Data. Pick one and the slide rebuilds around the content already on it. Text and images move into the new slots, and one undo brings the old layout back.

The properties panel

Select something and the panel on the right shows its settings: fill and text colors (every color field opens a color picker), with sliders for borders, shadows, blur and opacity.

The right-click menu

  • Cut, copy, paste — and paste without formatting ⌘⇧V
  • Order: bring to front, bring forward, send backward, send to back
  • Rotate 90° either way and flip horizontally or vertically
  • Center on page, horizontally or vertically
  • Group ⌘G and ungroup ⌘⇧G

Slides

New slides land right after the one you’re on, with the same background. Undo and redo sit next to the deck name at the top.

Your next deck is one sentence away.

Describe it, drop in your sources, and get a real canvas back in about a minute. Free to start.

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