Skip to main content
The Content v2 slide is a design canvas for building polished, structured presentation slides. Choose a pre-built layout or compose the slide block by block — mixing text, images, tables, callouts, shapes, and more — then present it to your audience.

​
How It Works

Like the original Content slide, Content v2 is non-interactive — participants see the slide on their screens but can’t submit a response. The upgrade is in the authoring experience: a structured block system replaces the free-floating canvas, giving you a richer set of content types and purpose-built layout templates.
Let AI do the heavy lifting: the AhaSlides AI slide agent can generate a ready-to-use Content v2 slide from a plain-text prompt. Open the AI slide agent, describe what you need (e.g. “a cover slide for a product launch” or “a comparison table for three pricing tiers”), and the agent builds the slide with blocks and content already in place.

​
Adding a Content v2 Slide

1

Add a new slide

Click New slide, then scroll to the Content section of the slide type picker.
2

Select Content v2

Choose Content v2. The slide opens with a prompt: “Choose a layout or insert elements →“

​
Two Ways to Build Your Slide

AhaSlides ships a growing gallery of named, pre-designed layouts — cover slides, agenda grids, callout cards, comparison tables, image-and-text pairs, and more. Examples include Cover Hero, Agenda, Feature matrix, Pull quote, and Process steps — but the full gallery inside the editor is the authoritative list, since it’s regularly expanded.To browse it, look for the Layouts section in the right panel (visible when no block is selected), then click Browse all → to open the full picker. Scroll or search by name for a starting point that matches your content. Clicking a layout fills the canvas with a matching arrangement of pre-styled blocks — each independently editable straight away.
Click + Insert at the top of the right panel to open the block picker, which has a search bar to filter by name. Blocks are grouped into five categories:
CategoryBlocks
TextTitle, Body, Bullets, Numbered (list), Quote, Section header
CalloutsNote, Info, Tip, Important, Warning, Caution, Success, Question
VisualImage, Rectangle, Circle, Line, Arrow, Divider, Icon
MediaVideo, Timer
DataTable, Big stat, Code
Each block you insert appears on the canvas and can be repositioned, resized, and styled independently.

​
Editing Blocks

Click any block to select it. The right panel switches to that block’s settings across three tabs:
  • Style — font family, formatting, and colour controls, plus a Markdown input (blocks accept Markdown syntax, so # Heading, **bold**, and - list item all render correctly).
  • Layout — size, position, and alignment options for the selected block.
  • Animate — animation settings for when the block appears during a presentation.
The canvas toolbar for a selected block also gives quick access to bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, font size, text colour, and text alignment without opening the panel. To delete a block, select it and click Delete in the canvas toolbar, or press the Delete key.

​
Formatting with Markdown

All text blocks accept Markdown: type into the Markdown text area in the Style tab and the canvas renders the output live. Standard syntax works — headings (#, ##), bold (**text**), italic (*text*), bullet lists (-), numbered lists (1.), inline code (`code`), and links ([label](url)).

​
Using the AI Assistant

Click Improve with AI on any selected block to open the AI assistant for that block — it can rewrite, expand, or shorten the block’s text based on your instructions. The Improve button in the editor header bar opens the AI assistant for the whole slide.

​
Presenting

When your presentation reaches a Content v2 slide, the canvas fills the presenter screen. Participants viewing on their phones or browsers see the same layout in a read-only view — no response is required.

​
Content v2 vs. Content

Content v2Content (original)
Authoring modelStructured blocksFree-floating canvas
Layouts25+ named templatesNone
Block typesText, callouts, visual, media, dataText, image, GIF, emoji, shape
Markdown supportYesNo
AI per-blockYesSlide-level only
Participant interactionNone (display only)None (display only)
Use Content v2 for polished, well-structured slides — cover slides, data callouts, FAQs, or branded layouts. Use the original Content slide when you need freeform, pixel-precise drag-and-drop placement.
Content v2 slides aren’t currently supported by the AhaSlides MCP create_slides() tool. Add them manually in the editor.