This release includes new collaboration features and a help center revamp to help you get more done, faster:

• @mention your teammates in comments
• Assign collaborators to the slides they’re responsible for creating or presenting
• ⌘? Reference copy, paste, undo, and other advanced keyboard shortcuts in the editor
• Access FAQs and step-by-step tutorials from the help icon

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The last 5%

We hear you: Sometimes Smart Slides are exactly what you need, and sometimes they only get you 95% of the way there. Starting today, you can make those final tweaks to Smart Slides by choosing to break the design ai and convert them into Classic Slides.

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Classic Slides give you unlimited flexibility to design your slides as you see fit with a more familiar authoring canvas. On Classic Slides, you have access to:

• Text: Use any font you’d like, or stick with the fonts in your theme. Multi-block text styling and widgets for displaying code and equations level-up traditional text editing.
• Color: Customize text, fill, and lines with any color you’d like, or choose a color in your theme.
• Smart components: Leverage powerful charts and tables in your Classic Slides.
• Positioning: Position elements wherever you’d like with the help of alignment guides. Use grouping and layering tools to get the perfect look.
• Shapes and media: Draw paths, add shapes, and dress up your assets with our library of device frames for images.

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So go ahead: add that last item, adjust your margins, and make those icons just slightly smaller. Convert to a Classic Slide when you really need it – or use a Classic Slide to start from scratch – and let Smart Slides handle the rest.

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Read more from our CEO about our decision to develop Classic Slides.

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We know how much time you invested in those decks – don't lose your old work. Import your existing slides into Beautiful.ai, and incorporate them into your new presentations.

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Our presentation importer prioritizes precision, maintaining every possible visual detail we can from your original slides. Your imported slides will be fully editable and inherit from your presentation's theme wherever possible, so even those old slides will blend in with your new look. Any .pptx file will work, so you can renovate Keynotes and Google Slides while you're at it.

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Learn more about importing your presentations.

✨ The Journey template

Sometimes our paths aren't linear. Ups, downs, highs, lows – a straight, flat timeline or list of bullet points doesn't communicate those nuances. We created a winding twist on the classic Timeline to give you more options for communicating the sequence of events over an abstract period. Journey has plenty of fun surprises in store:

• Customize your milestones - Choose to use icons, images, map pins, or dots to mark your Journey milestones
• Configure start and end markers - Give your Journey definitive start and end points with descriptors, or let it flow off the canvas
• Emphasize certain milestones - Override the automatic milestone color with another color from your theme
• Try a variation - Seamlessly switch between Timeline and Journey to see what communicates your content best

Add a Journey slide to your next presentation, and let us know what you think!

Mobile updates

Look at you, always on the go! We realized our mobile experience wasn't quite up to par for those of you who regularly look at content from your mobile devices. We've released a few updates that should make your mobile experience more useful and less buggy:

• Share across all your apps - Share a link to your presentation using your device's mobile sharing mechanisms
• Collaborate, right from your phone - Add collaborators to your presentation without having to fire up the desktop app
• Rotate away - We addressed some bugs with mobile playback that made it a pain to rotate between portrait and landscape

Table template improvements

We heard your feedback: Sometimes our table template could be frustrating to deal with. That's why we completely overhauled the table to turn it into a template you'll want to come back to over and over. Updates include:

• Better autofit, styling, and sizing. Autofit your rows or columns. Bulk select and edit multiple cells at once. Control your text size down to the pixel.
• Merge cells.
• Better copy/paste. A blank cell is not a zero. Now the table template understands that. Copy and paste from your source data with much higher accuracy and ease.
• Custom colors and decoration. Use visual cues in your tables by adding flags to your cells and customizing fill, icon, and text colors.
• Much faster performance. Now you can make Really Big Tables! We've made it a lot faster to input data into your tables and add columns and rows, which should make working with tables much more seamless, all around.

Try it for yourself by adding a table slide to your Beautiful.ai presentation!

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