Meet Copilot in PowerPoint: Storyboard Your First Deck
1. Meet Copilot in PowerPoint: Storyboard Your First Deck
Hi, and welcome to the course!2. Meet your instructor...
This course was created by Susanth Sutheesh, Senior Solutions Engineer for Copilot and Agentic AI at Microsoft. He's seen firsthand how Copilot can transform how teams build engaging and insight-rich presentations.3. Why This Matters
We've all been there — a looming presentation deadline and an empty slide deck. We're left juggling source documents, spreadsheets, and emails, trying to synthesize the findings into a simple and compelling narrative that drives action.4. Why This Matters
Copilot can help you break that creative block and turn disparate information into clear insights. Think of it as a presentation partner that turns your ideas into a structured story.5. Example: EcoCharge EV Battery Performance
Imagine you've just joined BrightWave Energy's annual strategy meeting. Your manager asks you to make a quick presentation showing how the EcoCharge EV Battery is performing this year. Instead of starting from scratch and spending hours trawling through reports and data,6. Example: EcoCharge EV Battery Performance
you can tell Copilot what you need, and let it handle the analysis and presentation structure for you.7. Generating Presentation Outlines
We'll start with using Copilot to generate a storyboard for our presentation, so we can iterate and improve the narrative structure before creating any slides. To start, open the PowerPoint app and create a blank presentation. From here, locate and click the shooting star Copilot icon. This will open a Copilot interface that allows us to build presentations with prompts. Here, we can type our prompt: "Create a 7-slide presentation on EcoCharge's EV Battery performance for an internal strategy review." We'll learn to write more structured prompts in the next video, but this is good enough for now. While we're here, we can choose a design layout for the generated slide deck. If your organization has its own PowerPoint design templates, you can select them from the start, reducing the amount of time polishing on final review. We send our prompt, and Copilot generates an outline for the slide deck. This outline is structured into sections, and each section has placeholder slide titles to give you an idea of how the narrative will flow. From here, you can rearrange, add, or delete sections before any slides are made. This gives you control over the story flow right from the start.8. Controlling Image Usage
Finally, when the PowerPoint is generated, this will more than likely include images. You can alter the image settings to decide what sorts of images should be used in your presentation, so you can keep the look and feel that fits your needs. Even though these presentations are being drafted by AI, you can still give them that look and feel that stakeholders associate with your brand. Once you're happy with everything, click generate slides to see your presentation come to life! Let's recap everything we've learned.9. Summary
You can use Copilot in PowerPoint to greatly speed-up and enhance your ability to create engaging presentations. Copilot allows you to quickly ideate on the narrative flow of your presentation and control how images are used in the generated slides. Finally, you can create presentations from reference files, like Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, or PDFs, which is especially useful when you need to present the findings of a report that already exists. We'll cover this a little later in the course.10. Let's practice!
For now, time to begin generating presentations with Copilot!Create Your Free Account
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