ChatGPT Slides: how to use it and who can get it

To use ChatGPT Slides, ask ChatGPT to "create ChatGPT slides" from a conversation or a file you've shared, then edit the deck right on the slide with your team. It lives inside ChatGPT Space, so you need a Pro, Business or Enterprise account with Space turned on. Plus and Free users don't get it yet.

OpenAI started rolling Slides out on October 16, and on October 19 the @ChatGPT account posted the collaboration features. The pitch is short: "Work together in real time in ChatGPT." Teammates share a deck, edit it together and leave comments, and you can ask ChatGPT or your dot to turn that feedback into changes.

How to use ChatGPT Slides, step by step

OpenAI's Space guide lays out the workflow in four parts:

• Start the deck. In a chat, ask ChatGPT for slides and give it the audience, the goal and the length. You can work from the conversation you're already in, an outline, or source files you upload. If you want a particular look, add a reference deck or a template.
• Edit it directly. Open the deck in Space and click into text, images, shapes, tables and charts. To have ChatGPT change one element, select it and choose Request edits. For a change across the whole deck, like "cut this to five slides for the owners," use the prompt bar.
• Bring in your team. Give collaborators edit access so several people can work on the same slides at once. Comments are shared, and you can mention ChatGPT or your dot inside a comment to ask for a revision.
• Present or export. You can present inside ChatGPT with speaker notes. On the web, you can export to PowerPoint (.pptx), PDF or Google Slides. In the desktop app, you also get options to open the deck in PowerPoint or Keynote if you have them installed.

Limits worth knowing first

On a phone you can make slides through conversation and view decks, but you can't edit slide elements. That has to happen on the web or desktop.

Windows has a quirk. According to OpenAI's guide, the Windows desktop app sometimes produces a plain PowerPoint file when you wanted a collaborative deck. If that happens, switch to cloud mode or use ChatGPT on the web.

Sharing is either view or edit. The Space docs list those two levels and don't mention a comment-only role, so a client you want feedback from either gets edit rights or can only look.

The plan requirement may be the biggest hurdle. Android Headlines points out that the $20 Plus plan is left out. A small team on Plus can't try Slides without upgrading everyone who needs to touch the deck.

Why OpenAI built its own slide app

This didn't start last week. Back in August, @rohanpaul_ai wrote that OpenAI had bought NextSlide, a startup that turned notes and research into editable presentations, and moved its team onto ChatGPT. In his description, ChatGPT's earlier .pptx output was plain white slides with unformatted text boxes. He also pointed out that Anthropic and Google already make slides, so OpenAI only gets ahead if its decks need less fixing afterward.

That's the standard I'd hold Slides to. Everyone can produce a first draft now. Claude has had Claude Slides in beta on paid plans since September. The new part is the comment loop: a teammate writes "the pricing slide is wrong," you tag the dot, and the fix lands in the same file without anyone retyping it. If it holds up, you lose the round of emailed edits that can drag a proposal out for days.

One caution: ChatGPT can still get a chart number wrong. OpenAI's own guide says to check facts, charts and layout before you present or share an export. Treat the first draft as a draft.

What this means for a small business

Most small companies don't make decks for fun. They make the same few over and over: a quote walkthrough, a monthly owner report, a pitch for a property manager or a school board. Slides could pay for itself on that repeat work, if your team is already on a plan that includes Space.

If you're on Plus, don't upgrade just for this. Pick one deck you rebuild every month, make it twice with whatever you already have, and time it. Then decide.

That deck usually depends on numbers coming from somewhere else, like your invoicing tool, your CRM or a spreadsheet someone updates by hand. Pulling those numbers automatically tends to save more time than the slide tool does. New Face Design's free process audit is a quick way to see which of those handoffs you could stop doing yourself.