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How to get good decks out of Theodore, answers to common questions, and how to reach us.
Using Theodore
Open Claude Code or Codex in the folder you work in. Say who the deck is for, what it must help them decide and roughly how long it should be. Theodore's skills load on their own when the request calls for them.
Theodore plans the storyline first, then builds each slide from real PowerPoint objects and saves a normal .pptx in the folder.
Using the client template, create a full market analysis of chilled home delivery in the Gulf.
Put the client's template file in the folder and name it in your request. Theodore builds in that template's layouts, fonts and colours, so the deck looks like the client's own from the first slide.
Use Client template.pptx for every slide of this deck.
Point Theodore at a deck you already have. It can rebuild one slide or a whole section in the current template, keep every number and source, and leave the slides you did not mention untouched.
Rebuild slide 4 of last year's deck in the new template.
Review the deck the way you already do, with comments in PowerPoint. Save it, then ask Theodore to address them: it reads each comment, changes the slide and replies in the thread.
Address the comments on slide 3.
Theodore translates a deck to Arabic and mirrors the layout for right-to-left reading: columns, charts, arrows and alignment. The result is still a native, editable file.
Have a native speaker read the translation before it goes to a client, as you would with any translation.
Translate the deck to Arabic.
Theodore renders every slide and looks at it before it calls the deck done, and fixes what is off, such as text that does not fit. Slide previews use LibreOffice when your computer already has it, and an installed PowerPoint on Windows. Otherwise, on macOS and Windows, Theodore fetches LibreOffice into its own folder, unmodified from The Document Foundation and checked against a pinned SHA-256. On Linux, Theodore does not fetch LibreOffice: install it with your system's package manager to get slide previews.
If a slide still comes out wrong, say what is wrong, or leave a comment on it in PowerPoint and ask Theodore to address it.
Slide 5 is too dense. Split it into two slides and keep the chart.
Name the audience and the decision. Give the number of slides, or the time you have to present. Attach or name the sources: a spreadsheet, last year's deck, your notes. Ask for one change at a time when you revise.
Six slides for the steering committee: where we are, what is at risk, and the decision we need from them.
Tell your assistant to remember a preference, such as "always put the source line under the chart", and Theodore keeps it for your later decks. You can keep up to 30 short notes, and see, edit or remove them in your account.
The answers to common questions are on the home page.
Read the questions and answersWrite to the address that fits; both reach the team that builds Theodore.
When a Theodore command fails, your assistant may send us a technical report by itself. It never contains your content; you can read every report, and switch automatic reporting off, in your account.