Translate a PowerPoint Presentation into Turkish

What changes when a slide moves into Turkish

Turkish is agglutinative: where English uses several words, Turkish attaches suffixes to a single root. “From our customers” becomes müşterilerimizden; “sustainability” becomes sürdürülebilirlik. On a slide this means long, unbreakable words that wrap badly in a narrow text box or a two-line title.

Word order differs too: the verb goes at the end. A bullet such as “Launch the campaign in March” becomes Kampanyayı mart ayında başlatın, so a list built on strong opening verbs loses that visual rhythm.

Register matters. In a business deck the audience is addressed with the polite siz form: “Contact us” is Bize ulaşın, not the informal Bize ulaş. That is the expected tone for clients and partners in Turkey.

Capitals, fonts and Turkish characters

Turkish has two separate letters i: i/İ (dotted) and ı/I (dotless). The lowercase of İ is i, and the uppercase of ı is I. Getting them wrong changes the word.

• A title capitalised by a font or style effect may display BILGI instead of BİLGİ (“information”) if the conversion does not follow Turkish rules. Check every all-caps title.
• Decorative fonts do not always include ğ, ş, ı and İ. PowerPoint then substitutes another font and the title mixes two styles. Make sure your theme font covers the Turkish alphabet.
• Turkish normally uses “ ” quotation marks; French-style « » guillemets are not used.

Numbers, dates and names on your slides

Presentations are full of figures, dates and brand names, and Turkish handles each in its own way:

• Numbers: decimal comma and full-stop thousands separator, 1.250,5.
• Percentages: the sign comes first, %30, not 30%.
• Dates: 15.03.2025 or 15 Mart 2025.
• Plurals: Turkish has only two categories (one, other), and after a number the noun stays singular: 3 ürün (“3 products”), never 3 ürünler. A string like {n} slayt therefore never changes.
• Suffixes on proper nouns: they attach with an apostrophe and follow vowel harmony, as in Microsoft’un, İstanbul’da, 2025’te. Check your brand or product name wherever it appears.

What Manuce returns, and what it leaves untouched

Manuce translates the text on every slide: titles, placeholders, text boxes, shapes (including shapes inside groups) and tables. You get your original .pptx back: theme, images, shape positions, animations and transitions stay exactly as they were; only the text becomes Turkish. You also receive a Word version, a PDF and plain text, handy for a Turkish-speaking reviewer who does not use PowerPoint.

What currently stays in the source language:

• speaker notes;
• text in charts, SmartArt and slide masters;
• text embedded in images.

A paragraph mixing several formats (one bold word mid-sentence) takes the formatting of its beginning; as Turkish word order differs, the emphasised word would sit elsewhere anyway. Text box sizes are not recalculated, so a word like sürdürülebilirlik may overflow a fixed box; only the autofit setting already in PowerPoint applies. Manuce does not provide sworn or certified translation. Turkish carries a ×1.25 coefficient on the per-word rate.

Preparing the file and checking the Turkish version

Before uploading:

• Spot charts, SmartArt and images containing text: plan to edit them by hand, or convert a simple SmartArt into ordinary shapes so its text is translated.
• Turn on autofit for narrow title boxes, or give them extra room.
• If your source titles are typed in capitals, leave them as they are: the translation will be written directly with the correct İ and I.

After delivery, run the .pptx as a slide show and check all-caps titles (İ/I), long words breaking at line ends, substituted fonts on ğ and ş, percentages (%30) and suffixes after your brand name. The free sample, one paragraph translated at your chosen level, lets you judge the register before paying.

In practice

1. Upload your .pptx: the quote appears straight away, based on the exact word count.
2. Read the free Turkish sample to check tone and terminology.
3. Choose a level, pay, and download the translated .pptx with its Word, PDF and plain-text versions.
4. Review as a slide show: İ/I in capitals, overflowing text, fonts, and charts or notes left in the source language.