Present Mode & Builds

Say what should come in and when — “reveal the three cards one at a time” — and the agent builds the slide's entrance sequence. Tune it in the Animation panel, or build it there yourself. Click Present to play the deck fullscreen, one click per step.

Starting a Presentation

• Present in the top bar starts from the first slide. Shift-click it to start from the slide you are on.
• The Present control on the canvas, beside zoom and undo, starts from the slide you are on. Shift-click it to start from the beginning. It is hidden while you are in the Layouts view.
• Anyone with a deck's share link can present it too. The shared viewer's Present button starts from the first slide; Shift-click it to start from the slide you are viewing.

Templates cannot be presented: the template editor shows neither button.

The deck takes over the screen and goes fullscreen where the browser allows it. The address bar carries the slide you are on, so reloading or sharing that URL reopens the presentation at that slide.

Controls

• Next — click anywhere on the slide, or →, ↓, Space, Page Down, N
• Previous — ←, ↑, Page Up, P
• First / last slide — Home / End
• Black or white screen — B / W; press again, or any navigation key, to bring the slide back
• Exit — Esc, or the × in the control bar

Move the pointer to the bottom of the screen to reveal the control bar: previous, the slide count, next, and exit. After the last slide an End of presentation card appears; one more advance leaves present mode.

Builds

A build is an entrance step on an element. In present mode the slide opens showing only its static elements; each advance fades in the next step, and only once every step has played does the next advance move to the next slide. Going back from a slide lands on the previous slide with all its steps already shown.

• A step is one click. It can hold one element or several that come in together.
• Each element in a step either starts on click (it opens a new step) or starts with previous (it joins the step before it).
• Every element without a build is static — visible from the moment the slide appears.

Builds are entrance-only, on whole elements, with a single fade. Paragraph-by-paragraph reveals, other effects, exit and emphasis animations, and slide transitions are not supported.

Asking the Agent

You don't pick effects or order rows. Open the deck and tell the agent in the editor's chat panel what should come in and when, and it writes the sequence for the slide you are on — which you can see step by step in the Animation panel, change there, or undo with one Cmd+Z.

• “Reveal the three cards one at a time”
• “Make the chart come in after the title”
• “Animate this slide”
• “Remove the animations from this slide”

The agent writes the slide's whole sequence in one go, then captures the slide at a step or two to check the order reads right. It only animates when you ask — it never adds builds to a new deck on its own.

Building and Tuning by Hand

The Animation panel is where you check or change a sequence — the agent's or your own — and where you build one yourself.

The Animation panel

Open it with the sparkles button at the top of the left panel, beside the Thumbnails and Story views. It lists the current slide's steps in order. Each row shows its step number and element, and has buttons to toggle starts on click / starts with previous, move the row up or down, and remove its animation. Animate selected at the bottom adds the canvas selection as one step.

Right-click → Animate

Select one or more elements, right-click, and choose Animate. The selection becomes one new step at the end of the sequence and the Animation panel opens.

Step badges

Every animated element carries a small numbered badge on the canvas while the panel is open, or when the element is selected. Click a badge to open the panel on that row — the quickest way to find out how someone else animated a slide.

Adding a step replays its fade once on the canvas, so you can see the effect without starting a presentation. Every change in the panel is one undo step.

Over MCP

• slide_set_build_sequence — takes deckId, slideId and steps, a list of steps where each step is a list of element ids. The list replaces the slide's whole sequence: elements left out become static, and steps: [] clears every build.
• slide_get — returns buildSteps for the slide and a build: { step, startMode } on each animated element.
• deck_get — shows each slide's build step count in the roster.
• slide_screenshot — takes an optional step: 0 captures the slide before any click, N after N advances. Omit it for the finished slide.

slide_set_build_sequence({
  deckId: "deck_abc123",
  slideId: "slide-4",
  steps: [["title"], ["card-a", "card-b"], ["chart"]]
})
// → Slide 4 — 3 build steps: 1. title · 2. card-a, card-b · 3. chart

// Replaces the whole sequence; steps: [] clears every build.

See Slide Operations for the full parameters.

Related

• In-App Agent — How the agent plans, builds and edits your deck
• Export to PowerPoint — What a .pptx carries, and what it does not
• Slide Operations — slide_set_build_sequence and slide_screenshot reference