ChatGPT Prompt for Presentation Slides: 12 Deck Prompts

A ChatGPT prompt for presentation slides should turn your notes into a plan you can build quickly: one message per slide, a layout for each, charts from your real numbers, and speaker notes that carry the detail. Give it your audience, time limit, slide tool, and the decision you want, then build the slides yourself in PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote, or Canva. The 12 prompts below go from storyline to rehearsal.

Story and structure

1. One-sentence takeaway

From these notes [paste], write 3 options for the one sentence I want [audience] to remember, each leading to this decision [goal].

2. Three-part storyline

Organize my notes [paste] into 3 sections that build to [goal], and list which points belong in an appendix instead of the main deck.

3. Slide count for my time

I have [minutes] minutes. Suggest a slide count at about 1 to 2 minutes per slide and assign minutes to each slide so they add up exactly.

Slide by slide content

4. Headlines that state the point

Rewrite these slide titles [paste] as full-sentence headlines that state each slide's point, under 12 words each.

5. Cut on-slide text

Cut the text on each of these slides [paste] to about 15 words, and move everything else into speaker notes.

6. Speaker notes

Write speaker notes for each slide [paste outline] in a conversational voice, about [seconds] seconds each, using only my notes.

Visuals and charts

7. Layout for each slide

For each slide in this outline [paste], suggest a layout from a standard template (title, two column, big number, chart, image) and the one visual that supports the point.

8. Chart from my numbers

Here are my numbers and sources [paste]. Pick the clearest chart type for each, say what goes on each axis, recompute any difference or percentage, and tell me the one bar or line to highlight.

9. Apply my brand rules

Apply these brand rules [colors with hex codes, fonts, template] to my deck plan [paste]: where each color goes, heading and body sizes, and one highlight color per slide.

Polish and rehearse

10. Accessibility check

Check this deck plan [paste] for font sizes, color contrast, meaning shown only by color, and missing alt text. Write alt text for each chart.

11. Likely questions

Based on this deck [paste] and audience [describe], list the 5 questions I am most likely to get, with short answers from my notes and any gaps I should fill.

12. Build steps in my tool

Give me step by step instructions to build this outline [paste] in [PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote, or Canva]: layouts to choose, where to set the theme colors, and how to add slide numbers and alt text.

Plan a full deck in one prompt

The flagship Presentation Slides Prompt: Notes to Slide-by-Slide Deck takes your notes, audience, time limit, slide tool, brand rules, data, and goal, and returns a storyline, a slide table with headlines, on-slide text, layouts, speaker notes and minutes, chart specs with the math shown, build steps, an accessibility check, and rehearsal notes. Its example is a 10 minute warehouse proposal where pick time fell from 6.2 to 4.1 minutes per order in a pilot.

Tips for better slides

Write each headline as the point you want remembered, keep detail in the speaker notes, and use one highlight color per slide. Chart only numbers you can source, and label any projection as an estimate with the math shown. AI cannot see your template, so check the plan against your real layouts as you build.

Related prompts

For a consistent look across the whole deck, use the slide deck visual system prompt. Giving a talk instead of a meeting deck? Try the conference talk outline prompt. Raising money? Use the startup pitch deck prompt and read how to outline brand voice slides.

Studying from a deck instead? See ChatGPT prompts for studying lecture slides.

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