Nixt Slides documentation

Nixt Slides opens, edits, presents and saves PowerPoint presentations (.pptx). It works on the file on your computer. You don’t need an account to open a file, nothing is synced, and the app sends no telemetry.

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What Nixt Slides is for

Nixt Slides is built for presentations and opens nothing else. If you try to open a Word document, a spreadsheet or a PDF, it tells you which Nixt Office app opens that file instead — Nixt Writer, Nixt Sheets or Nixt PDF.

It is designed around one idea: a presentation you open should still be the same PowerPoint file when you save it. The parts of a file that Nixt Slides doesn’t manage are written back unchanged, and a shape you didn’t touch is saved exactly as it was read. File formats and compatibility explains what that covers.

What you can do

Area	What’s available	Read more
Slides	Add slides from the template’s layouts, duplicate, delete, reorder by dragging, hide, switch between 16:9 and 4:3, and see every slide at once in the slide sorter	Working with slides
Text	Type into titles, content boxes and text boxes; bold, italic, left or centre alignment, bullets; insert symbols; link a shape to a web address	Working with text
Shapes and pictures	Text boxes, rectangles, ellipses and pictures; fill colours; eight Quick styles, including two gradients; bring to front and send to back; line up, space out, group and ungroup	Shapes, pictures and media
Tables and charts	Insert tables, type into cells, add and delete rows and columns, merge and split cells, shade cells, drag column widths and row heights; charts from PowerPoint files are drawn	Tables and charts
Design	Five colour schemes, five font pairings and per-slide background colours; edit the items on the slide master	Themes, fonts and backgrounds, Editing the slide master
Motion	Eight slide transitions and six entrance animations, with start, duration and order	Transitions and animations
Notes	Speaker notes for every slide	Speaker notes
Presenting	A slide show that plays transitions and animations, skips hidden slides and follows links; rehearse the deck and let it advance on its own	Presenting a slide show, Rehearsed timings
Export	PDF, Markdown outline and plain text	Printing and exporting
Safety	Undo and redo for the last 200 changes, a recovery copy every 30 seconds while you have unsaved changes, and the last 20 saved versions of each file	Undo, version history and recovery

Where to start

Getting started — create, open, save and close a presentation.
The editor window — what each part of the window is for.
Working with slides — build the deck.
Presenting a slide show — show it.

For what the app’s messages mean, see Troubleshooting. For every keyboard shortcut, see Keyboard shortcuts, and for the ribbon’s controls, see the Ribbon reference.