File formats · PowerPoint
Translate PowerPoint presentations, the whole deck
Upload the deck and get the same PPTX back with every slide translated, speaker notes, charts, SmartArt, tables, grouped shapes, slide layouts and masters included. When you translate PowerPoint here, the editor shows how much room each text frame has and flags a translation that would run over it, so you fix the wording before the deck leaves. Machine translation on models we host does the first pass, the checks run on every row, and a person decides what is final. PPTX, ODP and FODP, on every plan, including the free one.
How to translate PowerPoint decks, in three steps
- Upload the deck. Every text-bearing part becomes rows in the editor, in this order: the slides, then chart titles, axis labels and legends, SmartArt, speaker notes, slide layouts and slide masters. Slide-number, date and footer fields keep their field definition (what becomes a row).
- Translate in the CAT editor. One row per paragraph, with translation memory, termbase, machine translation and the live checks. Text frames with a fixed size carry a space budget, and a translation that would need two extra lines or more is flagged on the row, so you shorten it while the slide is in front of you.
- Download the deck. The delivered file is the same PPTX with the translated text in place, your fonts, sizes, animations and layouts untouched. A template heading that lives on a master is translated once and appears translated on every slide that uses it.
Translate the deck, not the slides one by one: notes, masters and charts come with it.
- in and out as the same deck, with the layouts and masters it came with
- PPTX
- parts of a deck covered: slides, chart text, SmartArt, notes, layouts, masters
- 6
- words per file, with no slide limit
- 100,000
- languages in the catalog
- 345
Coverage
Every part of the deck, in presentation order
Translate PowerPoint decks whole: slides first, then chart text, SmartArt, speaker notes, layouts and masters; every text-bearing part of a PPTX becomes rows, including table cells and grouped shapes. Nothing has to be ungrouped, copied out or pasted back, and the delivered deck keeps every object where it was.
- Slides and tables
- Grouped shapes
- Chart text and SmartArt
- Notes, layouts, masters
Notes, layouts and masters
Template text translated once, shown everywhere
Speaker notes are rows like any other, so the presenter reads the talk in the target language. Because layouts and masters are included, a running footer or a template heading that exists only on a master is translated once and appears translated on every slide that uses it.
- Speaker notes
- Slide layouts
- Slide masters
- Footers and template headings
Charts and SmartArt
Diagrams that read in the target language
Chart titles, axis labels and legends are translated with the slide, and so is the text inside SmartArt diagrams. The charts stay bound to their data and the diagrams keep their shapes, so the slide you deliver is the slide you designed, in another language.
- Chart titles and legends
- Axis labels
- SmartArt text
Room on the slide
A space budget for every text frame
Translations run longer than their source, and a slide has nowhere to hide it. Text frames with a fixed size show how much room they have, and a translation that would need two extra lines or more is flagged on the row by the overflow check, so you shorten it before export. The delivered deck keeps your font sizes, exactly as you set them.
- Space budget per frame
- Overflow flagged on the row
- Your font sizes kept
Review and memory
Translation memory, termbase and checks on every row
Every row gets exact and fuzzy matches from your translation memory and highlighted terms from your termbase, with the 18 live checks on top: placeholders, numbers, terminology, consistency and the rest. Machine translation runs on models we host, and a person decides what is final. The deck you translated last quarter fills the one you translate today.
- Exact and fuzzy matches
- Termbase highlighted
- 18 live checks
- Reviewed by a person
Languages and plans
Translate PowerPoint to Spanish, or to 345 languages, on every plan
One upload can go to several target languages, each delivered as its own deck. The free plan translates 3,000 words of documents, valid for 90 days, with the editor, the memory and the termbase included; paid plans start at EUR 9.90 a month including VAT, and extra machine translation comes in word packs from EUR 10 per 10,000 words.
- 345 languages
- Several decks from one upload
- Free: 3,000 words, 90 days
- From EUR 9.90 a month
FAQ
Translating presentations, answered
Create a project with Spanish as a target, upload the PPTX, and open it in the CAT editor. Every slide, note and chart becomes rows, machine translation fills the first draft, and you review and confirm with the space budget showing on each frame. Download the Spanish deck from the delivery tab. Add more targets to the same project and each one comes back as its own deck.
Yes. The whole deck is one upload: slides, tables, grouped shapes, chart text, SmartArt, speaker notes, layouts and masters, in presentation order. There is no slide limit; the one limit is 100,000 words per file.
Yes. Notes are rows like any other, listed after the chart text and SmartArt in the editor, so the presenter can give the talk in the target language from the same file.
Fixed-size text frames carry a space budget in the editor, and a translation that would need two extra lines or more is flagged on the row by the overflow check. You shorten the wording while the slide is in front of you, and the delivered deck keeps the font sizes you set.
A deck is accepted up to 100,000 words, whatever the number of slides or the size of the images in it; a longer deck can be split into two uploads. Save a legacy deck as PPTX in PowerPoint first: the PPTX route is the one that covers notes, layouts and masters.
Chart titles, axis labels and legends are translated with the slide, and so is the text inside SmartArt diagrams, while the charts stay bound to their data. Text that is part of a picture is carried through as the picture it is.
Yes. Add a review stage to the project, or send an offer to a translator through the platform: the deck opens in the same editor with the same memory, terms and checks, and the workflow holds delivery until the stage is done.
The delivered file is the original PPTX with the text replaced: layouts, masters, fonts, sizes, animations, images and charts stay as they were. ODP and FODP go through a general conversion that covers the slide text; for notes, layouts and masters, save the deck as PPTX first.
Upload a deck and present it in another language
Translate PowerPoint free to start, with 3,000 words: the editor, the memory and the space budget are there from the first slide.