My team and I have been working in Figma Slides and trying to see if we can convince our company to move off of PPT. To do that, I need this tool to be easier to use than PPT for non tech/design folks (sales and marketing teammates who are not familiar with Figma). That being said, we have a couple points of frustration:
- There might be a way to do this, but I can’t find it (and we’ve used Figma for years and years), but it’s driving me CRAZY that I can’t use variables or styles from our other libraries in Slides. It would save us so much time.
- Why do Slides create so many ‘libraries’/‘themes’ in a single file? How do we get rid of them? It happens when we paste things from another file (we often make assets in Figma files before pasting them into slides). This is also driving me crazy. I need ONE theme in these files. And I would like that theme to match the theme we’ve already created in Figma with our variables.
- Overall I don’t understand why theming a Slides file is so dang hard. It’s so easy to maintain libraries Figma proper. Why not bring that over into Slides? I get you all were trying to be clever with it, but it’s really not working well.
- Dynamic page numbers would be super helpful
- Exports that aren’t so large. This might be because we’re pasting assets in from Figma into Slides. But exporting Slides to PDFs is creating very large files no matter what we do. So we have to go through a long process to compress the files without losing quality.