Microsoft 365 Copilot At Work

CHAPTER 10Copilot in Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint is perhaps one of the most loved and hated applications within the Microsoft Office suite. Business professionals often lament the limitations of presenting information in PowerPoint slide format. However, despite these concerns, it is universally accepted as the default way to present information. If you are in the professional services field, you may be able to calculate the time spent agonizing over PowerPoint slides in years instead of hours. Perhaps one of the most time-consuming aspects of the PowerPoint creation and refinement process is focused on word choice and reformatting information to make it easier for the target audience to consume. Now, with the introduction of Copilot within PowerPoint, those long hours can hopefully be replaced with prompts that get you 80 percent of the way toward communicating key messages to your stakeholders.

In this chapter, you will learn how to leverage Copilot within PowerPoint to help you spend less time building slides and more time refining your messaging to ensure that it lands with the appropriate audiences. This chapter’s use case focuses on how Copilot can help you build project management artifacts—in this case, PowerPoint files to support your own organizational rollout of Copilot. We will walk through the process of creating a Project Kickoff deck using the power of prompt engineering. You will also see how Copilot can analyze your content and serve as a second ...