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Ep 647: The New Secret Google Gemini Feature that Quietly Kills Powerpoint slides
Inside Google's new secret Presentation feature, IBM cuts thousands of jobs due to AI, Global stocks slide due to AI fears, Chrome users get big AI upgrade
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November 05, 2025
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Slides inside of Google Gemini? Yup, we showed you the secret on todayās show.
Does this solve one of the last areas where AI stinks? Wonderingā¦ Have you found a good AI tool for making PowerPoints/Decks/Slides?
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š Daily Podcast Episode: Google VERY quietly rolled out an AI feature to create presentations. Itās a banger. Give todayās show a watch/listen.
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Ep 647: The New Secret Google Gemini Feature that Quietly Kills Powerpoint slides
Three words to Google Gemini and you can kiss your PowerPoint woes goodbye. š
Google Gemini quietly rolled out a kinda secret feature that TBH was deserving of a keynote.
So how do you create slides in Google Gemini?
And what are the pros and the limitations?
We break it down on todayās episode.
Also on the pod today:
ā¢ Geminiās ācreate a presentationā secret āØ
ā¢ AI slides export to Google Slides š¤
ā¢ Select and Ask: targeted edits š±ļø
Itāll be worth your 30 minutes:
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š¦¾How You Can Leverage:
Google dropped an AI presentation killer with ONE tweet on a secondary account then kinda ghosted.
Go from blank slide to polished presentation faster with Canvas in Gemini.
Now you can ask Gemini to ācreate a presentationā with a single prompt (and all your project notes). Try it out for yourself:
ā Google Gemini App (@GeminiApp)
9:54 PM ā¢ Nov 3, 2025
AI slides?
One of the last frontiers where AI tools kinda stink?
While you're stuck with Gamma's sometimes buggy exports or emailing 13 people to get access to Microsoft Copilot's AI PowerPoint features, there's a three-word cheat code hiding in Gemini Canvas that nobody's talking about.
Canvas mode + ācreate a presentation.ā
Itās magic shorties.
So on today's show, we're exposing exactly how those three words build professional slides faster than any tool you're currently fighting with.
1 ā Canvas mode beats every slide tool šÆ
Apparently weāve been doing this wrong all along yāall.
Gamma has buggy PDF exports. Microsoft locked Copilot behind enterprise licenses most people don't have. And that Gemini integration INSIDE Google Slides?
Completely useless. (We tested it live. It failed spectacularly.)
BUUUUUUT Canvas mode in Gemini is different because it's not trying to be a separate tool. You're already using Gemini for everything else, so why leave to build presentations?
Type three words into Canvas mode and watch what happens.
That's it.
We pasted an entire podcast transcript and said "using canvas, highlight the main points of this podcast and create a presentation." Two minutes later, twelve fully designed slides appeared with cap tables showing exact ownership percentages, timelines comparing company profitability journeys, and three-column breakout layouts with custom icons.
Zero design work required.
Your two-hour presentation nightmare just became a three-minute task.
Try This:
Open Gemini right now and click Tools, then Canvas mode. Grab your next meeting agenda, client brief, or project update email and paste it in.
Say "create a presentation highlighting the key points" and watch it build a complete deck in under three minutes.
Export directly to Google Slides or download as PDF. You just cut your presentation prep time by 90% without switching tools or learning new software.
2 ā Gemini Canvas builds visuals you'd skip manually š
Canvas mode doesn't just arrange text on slides. It analyzes your content and decides what needs to be a chart, what should be a table, and what works as breakout boxes.
All automagically.
During our live test, it created a cap table from casual conversation. Built a timeline comparing Amazon's nine years, Spotify's fifteen years, and Tesla's seventeen years to profitability. Designed three-column layouts with relevant icons for each section.
We didn't specify any of that.
It read the context and made smart design decisions about how to visualize different types of information. Financial data became tables. Chronological comparisons became timelines. Related concepts became icon-labeled breakout boxes.
Natural language (or boring SOPs, onboarding forms, blog posts, etc) can instantly be a visual deck that drips design.
Try This:
Think about your most data-heavy project right now. Budget review. Client performance metrics. Quarterly results. Copy that spreadsheet data or email summary into Canvas mode and say "create a presentation with visual breakouts and data charts."
Watch it transform boring numbers into actual visual stories with proper color coding and layouts. Three minutes versus the thirty you'd spend manually building charts in PowerPoint or trying to make Google Slides cooperate.
3 ā Select and ask fixes iteration chaos šØ
This feature changes everything about refining presentations.
Most generative AI tools destroy your entire document when you ask for simple changes. You say "make slide six shorter" and it rewrites slides 3 through 9 for no reason.
WHYYYYYYYYY!?
Canvas mode's select and ask feature kills that problem forever.
Drag a box around any section and give it specific instructions. Want three bullet points instead of four? Drag, ask, done. Need icons added to the top of breakout boxes? Select that section only and request it.
Only that section updates.
This was one of our 3 expert tips we shared: use ALL of Geminiās power before heading into Slides mode. (Because not all features are available once you jump into slide building.)
Ex: Upload a screenshot of your existing slide template and Canvas matches your fonts, colors, layouts, and branding across every slide it creates. Consistent visuals without manually reformatting each slide after export. Bet bet.
Try This:
Before creating your presentation, build your content in regular Canvas mode first. Use select and ask to perfect individual sections by dragging boxes around specific parts you want to change.
Then screenshot one branded slide from a previous deck and drop it into the chat with "this is our style, update the presentation to match." Your branded, perfected presentation exports to Google Slides ready to present. Fifteen minutes of work that used to take two hours of formatting hell.
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