Connect Libraries to Slides

It’s been working for me so I know you can already do this. Unless it’s for some reason limited to Org and Enterprise tiers, like custom template publishing for some reason is…

Here’s the support link I found for it:

Unless I’m blind, there is no “Assets” tab in Slides for me. PRO plan. But the Learn you’ve linked states that it is available for any plan.

This is where you want to click, hope it helps. The Figma documentation is not that good yet.

Damn, that is some weird UX. Thank you @Brian_Saunders!

The thing I miss there is a search in the library itself. But good enough for beta. I’d recommend to Figma designers to give a bit of a thought to placement of the Asset Libraries, the Plus did not associated it to me at all.

I agree—I think maybe with Slides they are trying to balance the challenge of using patterns that designers who use Figma a lot already know, and making it easier to understand for an audience that doesn’t use Figma that much. That’s my best guess, at least. It took me a couple hours to get used to how things work in Slides because there are a lot of subtle differences from how things work in design files.

Connecting the library works, but accessing certain styles within the library does not. I managed to create a grid style in my library, and succesfully use it in Slides, but text styles are unavailable. Clicking the “+” then clicking on my library reveals a mostly empty window. Seems like a bug, but maybe I’m missing something.

Slides should be able to bring in your text styles from shared library.
I see no way to change to uppercase within slides or any letter case options.

Hey All, thanks for the feedback!

We’ll pass this onto our Slides team for future consideration.

Also if you make a slide template with a library it doesn’t carry over any of the styles in your new slides file you are building from your template. You have to go back and add the library.

Another thing, anyone else having this weird bug happen when you add your library all of your slides and add new slide button disappear on the left side panel?

I am experiencing another issue with libraries in Figma Slides: Not all published libraries seem available. Figma Slides shows a maximum of 5 libraries per Team. I have no chance to search for and connect to other libraries. Newly created libraries are not found. I am on the Pro plan. Is a limitation or a bug?

Ok, the missing libraries are color- and text-only libraries. Turns out these kinds of libraries are not (yet) supported in Figma Slides. There’s another discussion on that topic here:

I just put my foot in Slides and I am pulling it right back out, lol. To get to my color and typography style libraries is way too difficult. Even after selecting my color, I do not have a list of my styles with names I recognize that I can quickly select the next time. I suggest Figma return to the UI with Figma designers in mind.

Was hoping it would be more like a merger of design mode and prototype mode.

Same with the thoughts on how to use but even in Design Mode you have to change the way you interface with certain objects in your file. Makes some things more difficult than they should be IMO.