getdeckBefore you send an AI-made deck, spread it out and count the repeats
AI-made decks read fine slide by slide, but repeats show up when laid out. Count them in Slide Sorter, change a few layouts, and know what this misses.
Look at the whole deck at once before it goes out
If an AI-made deck is about to go to a client or your manager, do not page through it one slide at a time. Put every slide on one screen, count how many share the same shape, and change the layout on a few of them.
- In PowerPoint, open Slide Sorter from the View tab.
- Count the slides that look like one shape, such as a title with three boxes, and mark the places where two neighbors match.
- Pick a few of the marked slides and change them from Slide Layout on the Home tab.
You do not see it reading one slide at a time
Slide by slide, an AI-made deck can look fine. The alignment holds and the text reads. The repetition only shows when the slides sit next to each other. Say it is the night before a proposal is due. This is a made-up scene. You had an AI tool produce a 12-slide deck and read it one slide at a time, fixing typos. Every slide looks clean. Right before sending, you lay them all out and find seven slides with a title and three boxes, four of them back to back.
The steps in PowerPoint
Microsoft's help says to open Slide Sorter from the View tab (PowerPoint for Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 for Mac and PowerPoint for the web, checked 2026-11-13). It is the view where you can see the slides side by side as small images. To change a layout, the help says to select the slide, go to Slide Layout on the Home tab, and pick the layout you want (checked 2026-11-13). On Windows and the web the button is called Slide Layout. On Mac it is called Layout. This post has not checked how that button behaves on a file exported by an AI tool. Open each slide you changed and look at whether the text still fits its placeholders.
Three things to count once it is spread out
- Are there places where the same shape runs back to back? Change those first.
- How many times does one shape appear in the deck? Where to draw the line is up to you. Allowing a shape twice is an easy rule to count against.
- Is the cover at the front and the closing slide at the end?
What this does not catch
Slide Sorter only shows shapes. Slides can look different and still say the same thing over and over, and you cannot see where a number came from. Those checks are separate, like reading just the titles in a row.
If you are the one asking the AI to order the deck
If you connect getdeck over MCP, you can pass check_deck the layout id of every slide in order before the deck is built. It flags a layout used on two slides in a row and a closing layout that is not last, and gives a one-line fix for each. Some of that checking moves from after the deck is built to the step where you plan the order. It does not judge whether slides look alike, and it needs an account key.