Slides

Slides are presentation decks that live in Drive. They exist because asking a minion for “a deck” should produce something you can open, edit, and present inside Minion — not a file you have to move to another tool first.

A deck is stored as structured data rather than as a file, which is what lets a minion edit one slide without touching the rest.

Creating a deck

Click New deck in Drive. The deck appears in your file list and opens in the editor with one blank slide.

To have a minion build it instead, just ask in chat:

Put together a deck for Monday's review: Q2 revenue trend, the milestones we hit,
and the three risks for Q3. Keep it under 8 slides.

The minion creates the deck in the workspace’s Drive and gives you the link when it is done. Minions know to use this feature rather than an outside presentation tool, so you do not need to say “use Minion Slides” every time.

Editing

Each slide holds text and image elements you place freely on a 1920×1080 canvas.

• Add elements with Text and Image
• Move by dragging; resize from the corner handles
• Edit text by double-clicking. Bold, italic, underline, bullet and numbered lists, font size, text colour, and highlight are all available on the selection
• Layer overlapping elements with Bring forward / Send backward
• Paste an image with Ctrl/Cmd+V to upload and place it in one step
• Nudge the selected element with the arrow keys — one unit at a time, or ten with Shift

Snapping

Dragging and resizing snap by default, so elements line up without you chasing coordinates.

• Snaps to the edges and centre of every other element, the edges and centre of the slide, and a 24-unit grid
• Guides: the moment something lines up, a pink dotted line is drawn between it and whatever it aligned to, so you can see what it matched
• Suspend it by holding Alt while you drag — snapping is off for that gesture only
• Turn it off with the Snap button at the right of the toolbar. The choice is remembered

The grid stays a fixed size no matter how far you zoom in, so zooming will not get you a finer step. For placement between grid points, hold Alt or use the arrow keys, which are never snapped.

Aspect-locked resizing (Shift while dragging a corner) does not snap: keeping the ratio you asked for wins over landing on a guide.

Zoom

For finer work, zoom the canvas itself from the right of the toolbar. This is separate from your browser’s zoom: only the slide grows.

• Buttons: − / +, and the level in between opens a menu (fit to window, 50–300%)
• Keyboard: Ctrl/Cmd + + / - to zoom, Ctrl/Cmd + 0 to fit
• Mouse or trackpad: Ctrl/Cmd + scroll wheel, or pinch on a Mac trackpad. Zoom follows the pointer
• Pan a zoomed-in slide by scrolling, holding Space and dragging, or dragging with the middle mouse button

The right-hand panel has three tabs: Properties for the selected element, Slide for the background (a colour or one of the deck’s images), and Images for managing everything uploaded to the deck. The Images tab flags unused images so you can clear them out in bulk. Collapse the panel from the handle (▶) on the seam between it and the canvas to hand that width to the slide — the editor remembers the choice.

Deck images may be up to 10 MB each, in PNG, JPEG, GIF, or WebP.

Slide management

Slides are listed down the left. Drag to reorder. Speaker notes are per slide, and Skip this slide keeps a slide in the deck while hiding it from presentation.

Editing at the same time as someone else

Changes save automatically. If someone else — a teammate or a minion — edits the same slide while you have it open, the editor reloads that slide with their change rather than overwriting it. In practice you can leave a deck open while a minion fills it in.

Presenting

Present opens the deck full-screen in a new tab.

Key	Action
→ / Space / PageDown	Next slide
← / PageUp	Previous slide
Esc	Exit

Skipped slides are omitted entirely.

Exporting to PDF

Download PDF in the editor exports the deck, one page per slide, sized 960×540pt (the same 16:9 page PowerPoint uses). Skipped slides are left out, matching what Present shows. Speaker notes are not included.

The PDF is generated on the server rather than by your browser, so it is byte-identical for everyone and can be attached to email or uploaded anywhere. A few things differ from the on-screen deck:

• Text renders in Noto Sans JP regardless of the font set on an element
• Italic renders upright — the bundled font has no italic face
• Emoji use the Noto Color Emoji set, so they keep their colour but are drawn in Noto’s style rather than your operating system’s
• Line breaks may fall differently in text that fills its box to the edge

Bold, underline, strikethrough, colour, highlight, lists, images, and backgrounds all carry over.

Asking a minion to revise a deck

Minions can edit an existing deck element by element, so revisions are cheap and do not disturb your layout:

In [file:q2-review], swap the revenue figure on slide 3 for the final number
from [file:q2-actuals.xlsx] and add a closing slide with the Q3 targets.

Current limits

• Fixed 1920×1080 (16:9) canvas
• No slide masters, themes, transitions, or animations
• No import from or export to PowerPoint or Google Slides
• Charts are placed as images; there is no chart builder