Abstract: Technology is disclosed herein that enhances the user experience with presentation programs and the operational aspects of such programs. In an implementation, a presentation program includes a hierarchy of parent slides and child slides in a collection of slides. Navigating from a parent slide to a child slide triggers a contextual zoom-in transition into the child slide. Navigating back to the parent slide from the child slide triggers a contextual zoom-out transition to the parent slide. Other non-limiting examples describe smart slide functionality of an exemplary presentation program. A smart slide is a slide of a slide deck that comprises one or more slide links, which provide an active link to another slide of the slide deck.