Creating presentations made easy with Copilot in PowerPoint

If you’ve ever stared at a blank slide hoping divine inspiration would strike before your 9am meeting, Copilot in PowerPoint might just be your new favorite feature. It won’t make your jokes land better or pick the right stock photos for your CEO, but it will build out a fully structured, professional-looking deck in the time it used to take just to open the template.

So what can it actually do?

Copilot in PowerPoint is designed to help you start better. You can give it a simple prompt—something like “create a presentation about our Q2 goals” or “turn this Word document into a 5-slide overview”—and it will generate slides with titles, bullets, and even suggested imagery.

It works best when paired with other Microsoft 365 apps like Word or Loop. Got a document with structured content? Upload it, let Copilot do its thing, and you’ll get a deck draft in seconds. And no, it’s not just pasting in random text blocks. It rewrites content, creates summaries, and formats it into a cohesive flow.

You can even ask it to rewrite your speaker notes, shorten bullets, or “make this more engaging.” Not bad for a tool that doesn’t know your company politics.

Bonus: Brand Center integration

If your organization has Brand Center configured, this is where things get fun. Copilot in PowerPoint can pull in your official templates, logos, and approved brand imagery right into your presentation workflow. You get consistency, compliance, and fewer frantic Teams chats asking, “Does anyone have the latest slide deck template?”

It also ensures your decks don’t turn into a wild west of off-brand colors and random font choices. Want to avoid your VP presenting in Comic Sans? Brand Center. You’re welcome.

But how good is it, really?

Let’s be honest—Copilot won’t replace your inner creative genius. It won’t choose the perfect meme or know your boss’s design quirks. But it gets you 70% of the way there with almost no effort. And that 70%? It’s clean, structured, and usable.

You still need to review it. You still need to finesse it. But the mental burden of “Ugh, I don’t even know where to start” is officially gone.

Pro tips to unsuck your deck

Start with a file: Copilot thrives on context. Upload a doc or email thread, and let it pull insights from there.
Use action-based prompts: Try:
- “Summarize this Word document into 5 slides for a leadership review.”
- “Create a deck explaining our new travel policy in plain language.”
- “Make this presentation sound more confident and executive-ready.”
Experiment with tone: Say things like “make this more persuasive” or “explain this for a non-technical audience.”
Don’t skip the review: This isn’t auto-pilot—it’s co-pilot. Clean it up before you present.

Copilot’s not magic. You still matter.

If your slides suck, that’s still on you. But with Copilot, the odds are in your favor. It’s not a creative director, but it is a powerful starting point. Treat it like a very fast, slightly awkward intern who does everything you ask—just not always how you pictured it.