1.5 – Copilot in PowerPoint Lesson

Lesson Overview

This lesson demonstrates how to use Copilot Pro within PowerPoint to rapidly create, modify, and enhance presentations with artificial intelligence assistance. You’ll see how Copilot lets you skip repetitive design steps, instantly create content, and update slide layouts without leaving PowerPoint. Instead of building every slide from scratch, Copilot can take a single topic and automatically produce a structured set of slides, including a table of contents and talking points.

The process is especially helpful for users under time pressure—whether assembling a deck for an urgent meeting or revising materials for a stakeholder update. While business users can create presentations from OneDrive files, this lesson focuses on personal Copilot Pro features, such as topic-driven rapid generation and slide editing through chat prompts.

Skills from this lesson are practical for business professionals, educators, and anyone who routinely communicates ideas visually. PowerPoint presentations remain a common tool for reporting, teaching, and team brainstorming—knowing how to accelerate this work with AI is increasingly valuable.

## Who This Is For

• If you use PowerPoint for any kind of professional, educational, or personal project and want to save time, you’ll benefit from this lesson. It’s especially relevant for:
• Business professionals preparing meetings or status updates
• Educators or trainers developing lesson presentations
• Marketing teams creating reports or campaign decks
• Project managers needing visual summaries
• Students and researchers building slides for classes or conferences
• Content creators who want to streamline their workflow

Where This Fits in a Workflow

This lesson is most useful early in your presentation workflow—specifically, when you need a first draft or a new structure for your ideas. For example, you can go from blank slides to a full draft by describing your topic, then use Copilot to rewrite and refine slide content as your project evolves. Later, you might rely on Copilot to organize, summarize, or help brainstorm additions as you finalize and polish your slides.

In real settings, you might generate a new deck in response to a last-minute meeting request, quickly pull together a training outline, or create supplementary materials to support a report—Copilot’s automation makes all of these tasks much quicker.

Technical & Workflow Benefits

Traditional PowerPoint creation is manual: selecting layouts, writing content for every slide, and shuffling information as edits come in. Copilot Pro dramatically reduces this overhead. By entering a simple topic prompt, you get an instant multi-slide outline, complete with suggested points and speaker notes—freeing you to focus on message and delivery, not on formatting.

The rewrite, redesign, and summary features speed up later revisions. Need to adjust your tone, add an example, or fit a new requirement? Ask Copilot, and the changes propagate instantly, keeping slides consistent and professional. In longer presentations, Copilot’s built-in summarization helps you prepare executive summaries or talking points for sharing. Ultimately, these capabilities mean you can respond faster to new requests and produce higher-quality slides with minimal effort.

Practice Exercise

Open PowerPoint with Copilot Pro enabled. Choose “New Presentation,” then use the Copilot chat to do the following:

1. Enter a prompt such as: “Create a presentation on effective digital marketing strategies for small businesses.”
2. Review the generated slides. Use Copilot to rewrite one of the slides to sound more informal, then ask Copilot to add two more bullet points to that slide.
3. Experiment with the Designer tool to quickly switch the design of one slide.

After completing these steps, reflect: How much faster was this process compared to your usual method? What might you ask Copilot to improve or add next?

Course Context Recap

You’re building on skills introduced in previous lessons about Copilot Pro’s integration into Microsoft 365 tools. By focusing on PowerPoint, this lesson provides hands-on experience with AI-driven presentation creation. Next, you’ll explore ways to further refine, collaborate on, or automate your slides. Keep learning through the full Microsoft 365 Copilot Pro Course to unlock even more time-saving features and workflows.