Create & Edit Work Files

Your employee turns a request or source file in chat into real work you can download, share, and refine in Drive.

TL;DR

Your employee creates and revises real work files from chat, then stores the result in Drive. It can make focused changes to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, CSV, PDF, and saved social drafts while retaining the work you did not ask to change. Image and video editing will use the same workflow when those tools are released; screenshots and meeting transcripts remain read-only records.

How It Works

Tell your employee what you need, who it is for, and what should be in it. It creates the file, saves it in Drive, and returns a download in the same chat.

What It Can Do

For presentations, your employee can create a deck with reusable layouts and slide masters, text, tables, native charts, images, shapes, and speaker notes. Give it the message you want the deck to make, the audience, your brand direction, and any source material. It builds a real PowerPoint file, not a sequence of screenshots.

You can ask for revisions in normal language. For example: “make the opening more direct,” “turn slide 4 into a two-column comparison,” “use our blue and charcoal palette,” or “add a chart showing quarterly growth.” The employee updates the same Drive file and adds a numbered version, so you can continue editing the .pptx in PowerPoint or return to any earlier version in Sistava.

It can also create Excel, Word, CSV, and PDF files. PDFs can be clean professional reports with strong typography, tables, callouts, and metric cards, or fully designed one-pagers and brochures with color, panels, imagery, and a deliberate print layout. Files are saved to the employee’s Drive, so you can download them later or ask for another revision from the same conversation.

The edit workflow is the same across supported work: choose or upload the source, name the focused change, and the employee returns the revision to Drive. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and CSV preserve their native structure where possible. A Sistava-created PDF carries its saved visual specification forward; another uploaded PDF is regenerated from its readable content, so its wording and data can change without promising pixel-identical layout.

Image and video editing are the next extensions of this workflow. Until those edit functions are available, your employee can generate new media but cannot revise an existing image or video from a request. Screenshots and meeting transcripts stay read-only records.

How to Set It Up

Nothing to connect. The Document Editor is available to every employee on every plan.

1. Open a chat with an employee.
2. Describe the file you need and include the important content, audience, and style direction.
3. Download the finished file from the chat or Drive.
4. Ask for a revision if you want to change the content, layout, or visual treatment. The Drive file stays the same and its Versions timeline records each change.

Tips & Tricks

• Start with the audience and decision. “A six-slide board update that asks for approval” gives the deck a clear shape.
• Give visual direction. Name colours, brand references, and the mood you want, such as calm, technical, or sales-focused.
• Choose the PDF job. Ask for a polished report when the reader needs to absorb detail, or a visual one-pager, brochure, campaign sheet, or portfolio when the page itself needs to sell the idea.
• Share the data. Attach a spreadsheet or paste the key figures when a chart needs to be accurate.
• Ask for a revision, not a restart. Tell the employee which slide or element to change so it keeps the work that already fits.

Good to Know

• PowerPoint creation produces an editable .pptx file. You can open it in PowerPoint and make manual changes after downloading.
• When you upload an existing Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file, ask for the exact text to replace. The employee preserves the rest of the file while making that change.
• PDFs stay PDFs. Sistava-created visual PDFs retain their saved layout specification; other PDFs are regenerated from readable content, so a narrow content change cannot promise a pixel-identical original layout.
• Newly created PDFs support right-to-left text as well as Latin-script languages. For a branded result, include audience, brand colors, and the feeling the page should create.
• Image and video editing are planned for the same chat-and-Drive workflow. Screenshots and meeting transcripts are intentionally read-only.
• Open the finished file in Drive and use Versions below the preview to compare or restore any earlier document version.

FAQ

Can my employee create a real PowerPoint deck?

Yes. It creates a native .pptx with editable slides, layouts, charts, tables, images, shapes, and speaker notes.

Can I control the look of the presentation?

Yes. Tell the employee the audience, colour palette, visual direction, slide order, and any elements you need. You can ask for revisions after it creates the first version.

Where do generated files go?

They appear in the conversation and in the employee’s Drive under Work files.

Can I edit an existing presentation?

Yes. Upload it and name the exact text you want changed. The employee updates that text while preserving the rest of the deck.

Can I edit a PDF I uploaded?

Yes. The result remains a PDF. Sistava-created PDFs retain their saved visual specification; other uploaded PDFs are regenerated from their readable content, so the requested content is preserved but the original pixel-level layout cannot be guaranteed.

Can I edit an image or video?

Not yet. Image editing is the next extension of this chat-and-Drive workflow, followed by video editing. Screenshots and meeting transcripts remain read-only records.

Can I undo a document revision?

Yes. Open the document in Drive, choose Versions, preview the version you want, and select Restore. Sistava makes that content the newest version and keeps every earlier version available.