Using the Content v2 Slide

The Content v2 slide is a fully flexible design canvas for creating polished, layout-driven slides. Start with a ready-made layout or build your own by inserting text, callouts, visuals, media, and data.

Like the original Content slide, Content v2 is non-interactive. 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.

Tip - 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 creates the slide with blocks and content already in place. Editing a generated slide is much faster than building one from scratch.

Creating a Content v2 slide

In the editor, click New slide, then scroll to the Content section of the slide type picker and select Content v2. The slide opens with a prompt: "Choose a layout or insert elements →"

There are two ways to build your slide:

Option 1: Start from a layout

The Content V2 slide has a growing gallery of named, pre-designed layouts. The gallery is regularly expanded, so you may see more and more options in the future. To browse the gallery:

1. Look for the Layouts section in the right panel (visible when no block is selected), then click Browse all → to open the full picker.
   
2. Scroll through or search by name to find a starting point that matches your content. Examples of available layouts include: Cover Hero, Agenda, Feature matrix, Pull quote, and Process steps,...
   
3. Clicking any layout fills the canvas with a matching arrangement of pre-styled blocks that you can edit straight away.
   

Once applied, each block is independently editable.

Option 2: Insert blocks manually

Click the + Insert button at the top of the right panel to open the block picker. A search bar lets you filter by name.

Blocks are grouped into five categories:

Category	Blocks
Text	Title, Body, Bullets, Numbered (list), Quote, Section header
Callouts	Note, Info, Tip, Important, Warning, Caution, Success, Question
Visual	Image, Rectangle, Circle, Line, Arrow, Divider, Icon
Media	Video, Timer
Data	Table, Big stat, Code

Each block you insert appears on the canvas and can be repositioned, resized, and styled independently.

Editing blocks

Click any block on the canvas to select it. The right panel switches to show that block's settings across three tabs:

1. Style — font family, formatting, Markdown input (blocks accept Markdown syntax, so # Heading, **bold**, and - list item all render correctly), and colour controls.
2. Layout — size, position, and alignment options for the selected block.
   
3. Animate — animation settings for when the block appears on screen during a presentation.
   

The canvas toolbar for a selected block also gives you 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 on your keyboard.

Formatting with Markdown

All text blocks on the Content v2 slide accept Markdown. You type in the Markdown text area in the Style tab and the canvas renders the output live. Standard Markdown syntax works: headings (#, ##), bold (**text**), italic (*text*), bullet lists (-), numbered lists (1.), inline code (`code`), and links ([label](url)).

Using the AI assistant

Click the Improve button on any selected block to open the AI assistant for that block.

The assistant can rewrite, expand, or shorten the block's text based on your instructions. The Improve button in the editor header bar also opens the AI assistant for the slide as a whole.

Presenting the slide

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 from the audience.

Content v2 vs Content slide

	Content v2	Content (original)
Authoring model	Structured blocks	Free-floating canvas
Layouts	25+ named templates	None
Block types	Text, callouts, visual, media, data	Text, image, GIF, emoji, shape
Markdown support	Yes	No
AI per-block	Yes	Slide-level only
Participant interaction	None (display only)	None (display only)

Use Content v2 when you want polished, well-structured slides — covering slides, data callouts, FAQs, or branded layouts. Use the original Content slide when you need freeform, pixel-precise drag-and-drop placement.

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