Verified against Canva · 2026-07-15
Write tighter slide copy with Canva Magic Write
Give Magic Write a word cap and bullet count up front so slide copy fits the text box on the first draft instead of needing three rounds of "Shorten."
The prompt
Ready to copy — highlighted parts are example details you can swap.
Write slide copy for a slide titled "Why churn dropped this quarter." Key point: We cut churn from 6.2% to 3.8% monthly by adding a cancellation-flow survey and a win-back offer triggered off it. Audience: The leadership team, in a monthly metrics review — they want the number and the cause. Tone: Plain and confident — no hedging like "we believe this may have contributed." Length: no more than 25 words total, as exactly 3 short bullet points. Fragments, not full sentences. No sub-bullets — if a point needs a qualifier, cut the qualifier rather than nest it.
Customize the highlighted detailsoptional — the prompt above already works
Why this works
Magic Write’s default behaviour, left unconstrained, is to write in full sentences at roughly paragraph length — which is why the most common next click after using it is "Shorten," sometimes twice. Stating the word cap and exact bullet count in the initial brief gets a usable draft in one pass instead of one generation plus two refine-in-place edits, because Magic Write treats an explicit length instruction as a hard constraint on the first generation rather than something it only respects once asked to revise. "No sub-bullets" heads off its other default habit: nesting a qualifier under a bullet instead of cutting it, which is exactly what causes text to overflow a fixed-size slide text box.
What you get back
"Churn: 6.2% → 3.8% monthly · Cause: cancellation-flow survey + triggered win-back offer · Rolled out mid-quarter, held through renewal cycle" — 3 bullets, 22 words, no sub-points.
Verified against
Canva Magic Write, slide/presentation editor (web) · 2026-07-15
Changelog
- 2026-07-15 — Initial publish, verified that an explicit word cap and bullet count in the initial brief reduces the need for a follow-up "Shorten" pass.
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