A layout re-composes one slide into a ready-made composition: the slide's content is matched into the layout's slots, and the whole swap is one undo step. Use layouts to turn a rough slide into a clean one, or to rebuild a slide without placing every element by hand.
The dialog states what happens: "Re-compose this slide onto a layout. Its content is matched into the layout's slots, and one undo restores the slide as it was."
Before anything changes, the dialog lists what the swap will drop or sever, so read it when the slide carries more than a layout can hold. A layout your slide's content cannot satisfy is disabled, with the first reason shown beside it; fix the content or choose another layout.
If something could not be placed, a message after the swap says Applied with one note, or gives the number of notes when there are several, and names up to the first three. A failed swap reports That layout could not be applied, and the slide stays as it was.
To manage slides in the rail (add, duplicate, rename, reorder, delete), see Edit slides and elements.
| Layout | What it composes |
|---|---|
| Title | An opening slide: the deck title, a subtitle, an optional small label above the title and a footer line. |
| Section break | A divider announcing the next part of the argument: one line on a tinted background. |
| Agenda | A running order: a title and 2 to 8 points, numbered. |
| Bullet list | A title and up to 8 points. |
| KPI grid | Two, three, four or six figures as cards, each with a label and a comparison line. |
| Chart with takeaway | One chart with its takeaway beside it. |
| Two charts | Two charts side by side, each with its own caption. |
| Table | A table with room for a takeaway card, holding up to 8 columns and 14 rows including the header. |
| Comparison | Two panels side by side, each with a heading and up to 6 points, or 4 when a paragraph sits beside them. |
| Quote | A quotation and its attribution. |
| Full-bleed image | A picture to every edge, with the copy on a band over it. |
| Image with text | A picture and the copy sharing the body area, half each, with up to 5 points. |
| Bullets with visual | Up to 6 points beside a chart or picture; without a visual it falls back to a full-width list. |
| Closing | A closing statement with up to 4 points. |
| Blank | Nothing. It is the freeform layout: it takes no content, and you place every element yourself. |
One slot holds up to 2000 characters of copy.
A layout keeps text, charts, one table and one image, and re-places them. Everything else goes:
The dialog lists these losses for your slide before the swap.
The slide itself survives: it keeps its name, speaker notes, transition and its per-slide choices, such as hiding the deck logo or the page number on that slide. And the whole swap is one step, so Ctrl+Z restores the slide exactly as it was.
Layouts have fixed capacities, and fitting also depends on the deck's size. See Design a deck to change it.
Content a layout cannot accept at all blocks the layout before you apply: the first reason is shown beside the disabled layout, and nothing changes. For example, a KPI grid composes two, three, four or six figures, so a slide with five figures cannot be re-composed onto it.
When the content is accepted but does not fully fit, the slide is still built and the notes say what was left out:
You can also rebuild a slide by asking the AI panel in the editor. It re-composes through the same layout system, so a slide it rebuilds follows the same capacities, slots and notes as one you rebuild yourself, and each change it makes, a re-composition included, is one undo step. A request that names a layout the product does not have is refused, with the list of the layouts that exist, and nothing changes.
A re-composition replaces every element on the slide, and with them any Morph pairings the slide carried. See Animations and transitions and Write slides with AI.
Your slide's content fails one of that layout's requirements, and the first failing requirement is shown beside it. Fix the content, or choose a layout the slide can satisfy.
Yes. The swap is a single step: press Ctrl+Z and the slide is exactly as it was before.
The binding is severed. The rebuilt slide keeps the chart with the values it was showing as static content, and it stops refreshing until you bind it again. See Fill slides from your data.
No. The slide keeps its name, speaker notes, transition and its per-slide choices, such as hiding the deck logo or the page number. Only the slide's content is rebuilt.
It marks the layout the slide is using now. A slide you built by hand uses no layout and carries no badge; its row in the Slide section reads Apply layout….
Two, three, four or six. Other counts are refused, so a five-figure slide needs a different layout.
A bullet list holds up to 8 points, and a comparison panel holds up to 6, or 4 when a paragraph sits beside them. More than that is refused before anything is built. Within its capacity, points can still be left out when the deck's size cannot fit them; the note says how many were left out, and you can shorten them or split them across two slides.
Yes. Layouts use your deck's theme colours and font, so a re-composed slide matches the deck and follows the theme when it changes.
Not from the Apply layout dialog, which re-composes the slide you opened it from. Apply the layout to each slide, or ask the AI panel to rebuild a run of slides in one request. See Write slides with AI.