Copilot in PowerPoint / Create and edit a presentation using natural language prompts

00:00 I've got stickers this video is all about  co-pilot in PowerPoint what I'm going to do is take you through what I've learned from using  it there are some amazing features in here some of them are more valuable than others so I'm going  to share with you what I think it's most useful for this is part of the license that is Microsoft  co-pilot for Microsoft 365 as well as copilot Pro there's one piece in here that you can't do in  copilot Pro I'll give you a shout out about that

00:30 but honestly the highest value things you can do  with both licenses let's take a look at how this works so we're going to look at two very different  types of functionality that are available here the first one is all about creating and editing  your PowerPoint decks the second one is about working with existing decks to ask questions get  information summarize and synthesize information so to start with here when you first come in  you've got your co-pilot icon and it prompts

00:55 you to be able to create a presentation and  create a presentation from a file now this one about creating from a file is honestly the  highest value thing I've seen I'm going to come back to that I want to show you this first just to  give you a sense of what you can do with natural language this is something that I think is good  in certain circumstances but for real business use cases that create from file is far more likely  to work for you so we're going to say create a

01:20 presentation I'm just going to get rid of that and  paste something I've already done in here create a presentation about traveling to Melbourne  Australia I'm going to run this in real time so that you get a sense of how this works this is  actually using generative AI predictive models to come up with things so when you're asking it about  a topic you're getting that same experience of it being able to generate content based on those  large language models it's going to come up with a bunch of images here as well so what we've  got here experience Melbourne Australia explore

01:50 the famous street art of josier Lane visit the  historical Queen Victoria Market I've done this based on my own uh Hometown so that I can check  it for accuracy we've got some things here the Melbourne cricket ground the Royal Botanic Gardens  solid uh some good things about shopping and I don't know what that is that's um that is not  representative of the bar scene in Fitz okay we'll just move on right past that I think that's some  kind of rice krispies musly bar or something it's

02:22 not something that I'm familiar with I actually  did this once before I hit record the nature of generative AI of course is that you're going to  get a different result every time I am actually just going to try something different here and  start again and see if I can get a different result cuz I got a much more beautiful deck just  to show you again with generative AI that you won't always get the same thing same thing every  time you'll see what it's doing though is creating

02:50 essentially a five slide deck it's fairly light  weight on content but it's giving you a structure so if you want to create something quite simple  as a starting point easy first draft it's it's not bad here we go this is this is much better do  you see the difference I've done exactly the same prompt this is a key learning with generative AI  the same prompt in a different moment will give you something different let's see what we've got  this time that is in fact a picture of Melbourne

03:17 I believe uh don't recognize where that one is two  of the city on the free City Circle tram botanical gardens Great Ocean Road yeah again those are  goods come up with some different things that is a pie it's not really how we do pies in this  country but it's closer than whatever I got in the last one uh Sports culture absolutely key to  it and oh we've got a bit literal there the crown casino is not actually the jewel in the crown  all right so what we can do now is I'm happier

03:47 with this version so what I'm going to do now  is ask it to start editing some things I found if you try to ask it to edit the text in here it  can't do this so if I say for instance add another point about the MCG it just kind of won't do it  so the edit function I'm hoping this is something that happens maybe in the future just can't do  that but if we say add a slide about the MCG it will do that so we can add additional slides and  it can actually cope with that quite well while

04:19 it's doing that you'll see that it's also created  speaker notes so you've got some speaker notes in here other things in there as well it's put that  in we're going to arrange this again in a moment but it's put that in here Sports culture that's a  baseball bat not a cricket bat uh so the thing you can do in here is add an image uh of team playing  Cricket we'll just change that in there I haven't worked out yet how we can get it to replace the  image but if we do this it will actually find a

04:51 different image one of the things that it suggest  that's still baseball okay if you don't like what it does we can certainly uh undo you can just you  know use your usual sort of undo commands in there to uh to get to get rid of that live demos with  AI are are really quite uh fraught with Danger let's try something else let's try in here to say  add a slide about coffee shops and Coffee Culture that's a big part of what happens in the city we  do love our coffee we are we are coffee snobs in