How to turn a PDF or Word file into slides

You already have a handout, a report, or a document, and you don't want to retype it. Upload the file, say who the talk is for, and export a PowerPoint you can still edit.

Upload a file and start

1. Upload the file and say what you want

Upload a PDF or Word file. Our example is a short PDF about baking bread at home. In the box we wrote: create a PowerPoint on how to make bread at home.

Then click Generate outline.

CreatePPTX home with a homemade-bread PDF attached and a prompt to turn it into a PowerPoint — Upload the file, write what you want, then click Generate outline.

2. After you send it, leave this tab open

A progress bar will show up. Stay on this page until it finishes. When it's done, slides start on their own.

If you close the tab and don't come back, the slides may not be ready. Open the project again to continue.

Progress screen. Stay on this page until the slides are ready — Stay on this page. When the progress bar finishes, slides start on their own.

3. You'll see the page list, then the editor

Next you'll see the slides this deck will have. For the bread PDF it used tools, why large holes happen, and starting your first loaf.

Then you'll land in the editor. If a page is wrong, change that page.

Page list for the homemade-bread presentation before the editor opens — After the page list appears, you'll enter the editor.

4. Click in and fix a sentence

Titles and body text work like a normal PowerPoint. Change one sentence on that page.

Editor showing a bread slide with the title and body text selected — Click the title or the body to edit.

5. Export PPT or PDF

When it looks right, click Export. Choose PPTX if you'll keep editing in PowerPoint. Choose PDF if you just need to send a file.

Export menu showing Export PDF and Export PPTX — If you'll keep editing, choose PPTX.

6. Open it in the app you already use

Open the PPTX in PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slides. The title and body are still selectable, so you can keep editing.

The exported bread slide opened in Google Slides, with the title and body still editable — Same slide in Google Slides. You can still select and edit the text.

If the slides feel empty

Check these:

You hit start with nothing in the box.
You expected a long PDF to become one slide per page. Long files usually become a shorter deck.
You uploaded a template or brand kit with no real content.

Already have a PPT and just want to revise it?

See You already have a PPT — just revise it. For a class with formulas and graphs, see Turn a lesson into classroom slides.