CI Check
Check a deck against your organization's brand guidelines and fix the findings from the add-in.
CI Check compares every slide in the open deck with your organization's brand guidelines and lists what breaks them. Many findings can be fixed with one click.
Where: Home → CI Check in the offgen add-in · Who: all members; Admins set the guidelines
CI Check is hidden in new organizations until an Admin turns it on. See Choose what the add-in shows.
Run a check
- Open Home → CI Check.
- Select Run check. offgen reads all slides and checks them against the rules.
- Read the summary, for example "4 findings on 2 slides". Findings are grouped by slide.
- Filter with All, Errors or Warnings. Select Show on slide to jump to the shape a finding refers to.
After you change the deck, select Run again.
Fix findings
- Fix corrects one finding in your deck.
- Fix all corrects every finding that has an automatic fix. The button shows how many.
- Findings marked Manual have no automatic fix. Change them yourself in PowerPoint.
- Show fixed brings back findings you already fixed; Hide fixed hides them again.
Fixes change the slides in your deck right away. Look over the slides after Fix all.
What it checks
Admins choose which rules are on and whether a rule reports an Error or a Warning:
| Rule | Checks |
|---|---|
| Fonts | Which font families may appear, and what replaces others |
| Font sizes | Minimum, maximum and allowed sizes, overall and per text role |
| Colors | The brand palette for text, fills and outlines |
| Bullets | The bullet character per indent level, and whether numbered lists are allowed |
| Layout | The safe area every shape has to stay inside |
| Hygiene | Empty placeholders, stray shapes and overlong lists |
Set up brand guidelines
If no guidelines exist, CI Check shows No brand guidelines yet with Open web settings.
- Open Settings → Brand guidelines (CI Check) at app.offgen.ai.
- Turn rules on and fill in their values. Or use Configure with AI: describe your corporate identity in plain words, select Apply to draft and review the rules.
- Select Test with a deck to upload a
.pptxand preview the findings. Nothing is stored. - Select Save. The add-in checks against the saved rules from then on.
Only Admins can change the guidelines. Everyone else can view them and test decks.
No offgen account? The free PowerPoint Template Checker checks a .pptx against its template (fonts, colors, placeholders, alt text, off-slide shapes and masters) in your browser.
Related
- Template library: start from approved slides that already follow your brand
- Design systems: brand rules offgen uses when it designs new slides
- Users, teams and roles: who counts as an Admin
Questions? support@offgen.ai