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The Content v2 slide is a design canvas for building polished, structured presentation slides. Choose a pre-built layout, such as a title or cover slide, or compose the slide block by block (mixing text, images, tables, callouts, shapes, and more) then present it to your audience.
AhaSlides Content v2 slide presented: image-led roadmap with heading, text and photo, mirrored on a participant phone

Content v2 at a glance

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.

Create a Content v2 slide

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Add a new slide

Click New slide, then open the Content tab of the slide type picker.
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Select Content v2

Choose Content v2. The slide opens with a prompt: “Choose a layout or insert elements →”
AhaSlides Content v2 slide type highlighted in the slide type picker
Let AI do the heavy lifting: the AI assistant can generate a ready-to-use Content v2 slide from a plain-text prompt. Click AI in the editor, describe what you need (e.g. “a cover slide for a product launch” or “a comparison table for three pricing tiers”), and the assistant builds the slide with blocks and content already in place.
Content v2 slides aren’t currently supported by the AhaSlides MCP create_slides() tool. Add them manually in the editor.

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), such as Cover Hero, Agenda, Feature matrix, Pull quote, and Process steps. 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:Each block you insert appears on the canvas and can be repositioned, resized, and styled independently.
The AhaSlides editor with a Content v2 slide open, showing a title and supporting line, and the Insert button in the Content panel

Edit 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.

Add an image

Click + Insert, choose Visual, then Image, and double-click the image box to upload a picture or pick one from the image library.

Animate and sequence blocks

Each block can animate as it appears while you present. Select a block and open the Animate tab to set it up:
  • Animation: the entrance effect. Choose Fade in, Slide (up, down, left, or right), Scale in, Zoom in, or Bounce. Choose None to remove it.
  • Trigger: Auto plays the animation as soon as you reach the slide; On click keeps the block hidden until you click to advance to its step.
  • Step (On click only): the block’s place in the click sequence. Give several blocks the same step number to reveal them together on one click.
  • Timing: a Delay before the block animates, and the animation Duration.
The Sequence panel lists every animated block in playback order, grouped into Auto (plays on slide enter) and On click steps. Use the up and down arrows on a step to move it earlier or later.
To reveal images or points one after another (the “appear on click” flow familiar from PowerPoint) give each block an entrance animation, set its Trigger to On click, and number the Steps in the order you want them to appear. This click-to-reveal sequencing is unique to Content v2; the original Content slide plays all of a slide’s animations together on slide entry.

Format 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)). To add a link without Markdown, select the text, click Link in the floating toolbar, paste the URL and click Add link. Links open in a new tab.

Use 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.

Add audio

Audio is an insertable block. Click + Insert, open the Media category (or search Audio), and choose Audio, then upload your audio file. Use it for background music, a voiceover, or a sound effect. You can add a track name as an optional caption. Once inserted, the audio element behaves like any other block: select it to resize, reposition, or replace it, and use the delete option that appears on hover to remove it.

Add video

The Video block doesn’t upload files. Click + Insert, open the Media category and choose Video, then paste a video link or embed code into Source URL or embed code. Links from YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok and Facebook work, as do direct links to video files ending in .mp4, .webm, .ogg, .ogv, .mov or .m4v.

Present a Content v2 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.

Content v2 vs. Content

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

Frequently asked questions

Insert a Timer block: click + Insert, open the Media category (or search Timer), and choose Timer. With the block selected, set the countdown length using the minutes and seconds inputs in its Style settings. You can also add a Label under the digits (e.g. Coffee break), change the When finished text shown at zero (defaults to Time’s up), and pick a Color.Turn on Auto-start when slide opens to start the countdown as you reach the slide, or leave it off to get a Start timer button on the presenting screen. You can Start, Pause, Resume, and Reset it while presenting, and it stays in sync on your audience’s screens.The Timer block is a visual countdown only: it doesn’t play a sound when it ends, and it’s separate from the quiz Time Limit setting, which caps how long participants have to answer and locks their responses.
Have a question? Contact our support team: if you’re logged in, use the chat bubble in the bottom-right of your dashboard; otherwise contact us here or email hi@ahaslides.com. Want to connect with other users? Join the AhaSlides community to share tips, request features, and see how others engage their audiences.