Edit slides on the canvas

Updated July 11, 2026

Once a deck is built, you do not need to leave the presenter view to fix a typo or nudge a headline. The canvas editor lets you click directly on any slide and change it in place, the same way you would edit a shape in a design tool.

#Entering edit mode

Click Edit in the toolbar. The button becomes pressed and its own label changes to Editing, so you always know the state you are in. Exit edit mode either by clicking that same button again, now reading Editing, or by clicking Done in the edit toolbar that appears while you are editing.

#What you can select and change

While in edit mode, nearly everything with text on the slide becomes directly editable: headlines, eyebrow labels, subhead paragraphs, list items, table cells, key and value pairs, premium lines, and footnote text. Click into any of these and type. There is no separate "select, then open a panel" step, you click where the text is and edit it right there.

A small toolbar appears alongside the slide with a few more tools:

  • Color swatches, pulled from your brand's accent and text colors plus a few extras, to recolor whatever block is selected.
  • A- and A+ to step the selected block's text smaller or bigger.
  • + Image to upload an image onto the current slide. It drops in as a block you can drag and resize like anything else on the canvas.
  • Undo to step back through recent edits.
  • Delete to remove the selected block entirely.
  • A free-text field ("Tell it what to change, e.g. remove the reply line") with an Apply button next to it.
Preview note

Preview note: in this release, that free-text field only understands removal requests, phrasing like "remove," "delete," "drop," or "get rid of" something on the slide. It finds the matching block and deletes it. Anything else you type back returns an honest note that in the full version this instruction goes to Claude to rewrite the proposal, and for now to either edit inline or phrase it as a removal.

#Moving and resizing

Every element on a slide can also be repositioned and resized while you are in edit mode. Click a block to select it, a selection box appears with a handle, then drag to move it or drag the handle to resize it. As you drag, the block snaps to guides, the slide's left margin, its horizontal center, and its right margin, so your layout stays aligned without you eyeballing it.

#Undo

Every change you make in edit mode, a text edit, a color swap, a resize, a delete, is captured before it happens. Click Undo (or press Cmd/Ctrl+Z while the deck is open) to step back. The undo stack holds the last 40 actions, so you have real room to experiment and back out of a change you do not like. Once you run out of steps to undo, the app tells you plainly: nothing left to undo.

#How long an edit lasts

Be honest with yourself about what canvas edits are: they live in the open browser tab for your current session. There is one exception. If you edit a premium or fee line directly on the canvas, that specific edit is written back into the proposal's underlying data and will show up correctly if you reopen the outline editor or export the deck. See Edit fees and totals for how that recalculation works.

Every other canvas edit, moving a block, retyping a headline, recoloring text, deleting a list item, lives only in the open slide and does not survive a page reload or a full re-render of the deck (for example, from an edit made in the outline editor). If you need an edit to be durable across a reload, make it in the outline editor instead, since outline edits write straight into the proposal's data model.