Export quality

Do not pay before the PPTX export test.

A demo can look beautiful and still produce a useless PowerPoint file. This page shows how to test whether an AI deck survives real editing.

deck test

Story

clear argument

Output

editable PPTX

Review

human approval

The 10-minute test

Generate a deliberately annoying deck.

Do not test with a simple title slide. A serious export test needs objects that often break: charts, tables, speaker notes, footers and images.

1. Generate five slides

Ask for a title slide, a comparison table, a timeline, a chart and a slide with speaker notes.

2. Export to PPTX

Download the file, open it in Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Slides if your team uses both.

3. Click everything

Titles, bullets, table cells, chart labels, icons, image placeholders and notes should be editable, not flattened images.

4. Apply a template

Try your company theme. If every slide breaks, the tool is not ready for corporate workflows.

5. Measure cleanup

If an 8-slide test takes 45 minutes to fix, the beautiful first draft was not actually fast.

Failure signals

Bad export signs.

Flat image slides

You cannot edit text, charts or layout without recreating the slide.

Broken fonts

The exported file substitutes fonts and shifts line breaks.

Missing notes

Speaker notes disappear or become visible slide text.

Chart as picture

You cannot update data values or labels.

Master ignored

Your template does not apply cleanly.

Scorecard

Give every tool a hard score.

Use the same source brief, same slide count and same export test. A fair test beats vague opinions.

Test	Pass	Fail	Score
Text editability	Titles, bullets and labels are editable text boxes.	Slides export as screenshots or grouped images.	0-5
Chart editability	Chart data can be changed or rebuilt quickly.	Chart is a flat image with no accessible data.	0-5
Speaker notes	Notes land in the notes pane and match each slide.	Notes disappear, repeat slide text or sit on the slide.	0-5
Theme handling	Your template can be applied with minor cleanup.	Fonts, colors and spacing break across the whole deck.	0-5
Cleanup time	Ten-slide deck needs less than 20 minutes of cleanup.	Cleanup takes longer than building the deck manually.	0-5

Exact test prompt

Use this prompt in every tool.

Export torture prompt

Create a 6-slide business deck about reducing customer support response time.
Slides:
1. title and decision
2. KPI chart with 4 months of sample data
3. comparison table of 3 options
4. timeline with 5 milestones
5. risk matrix
6. recommendation with speaker notes.
Export to editable PPTX if possible.
Use short conclusion-style slide titles.

Manual inspection checklist

After export, open in PowerPoint and check:
- Can I edit every title?
- Can I edit table cells?
- Can I change chart data?
- Are notes in the notes pane?
- Can I apply a company theme?
- Does the file survive Google Slides import?

Practical deck tests

Do this before trusting any AI slide output.

Generate a short deck with one chart, one table, one timeline, one visual placeholder and speaker notes. Export to PPTX, open it in PowerPoint, edit every object, apply your company template and measure cleanup time. This test catches weak tools faster than reading another ranking.

Test