Create a New Presentation with Copilot and Designer

Quick reference

• 00:04 In this section of the course,
• 00:06 we're moving on to taking a look at Copilot in PowerPoint.
• 00:09 And this is probably one of my favorite applications to use Copilot in.
• 00:13 It can help us build a presentation from scratch, create a presentation based off
• 00:18 an existing document, and even use our own branded templates.
• 00:22 Now, as usual, the same rules apply.
• 00:25 So we need to make sure we've saved our presentation to OneDrive.
• 00:28 We have Autosave toggled on.
• 00:30 And what you'll notice is that Copilot is right next to the Designer tool,
• 00:35 because Designer also uses AI to help us design our presentations.
• 00:39 And these two work really well together.
• 00:42 Now, when you open up the Copilot pane,
• 00:44 you're going to see some prompts at the top here.
• 00:46 So we can create a presentation, create a presentation from a file, or
• 00:50 we can add a slide about.
• 00:52 And of course, we can type our own prompt underneath.
• 00:55 Also, notice at the bottom of this prompt box, we have a view prompts area.
• 01:00 So this is where we can go to get help when it comes to the types of prompts
• 01:03 we might want to construct.
• 01:05 We can also choose to dictate our prompt instead of typing it in, so
• 01:09 we can turn on our microphone and just start speaking.
• 01:13 Now, we're going to create a presentation, so let's click that prompt.
• 01:16 And let's elaborate a bit more about the presentation that we want to create.
• 01:21 So I'm going to create a presentation from scratch about the history of Yoga.
• 01:25 I want to include the most common Yoga poses, and
• 01:29 I want the presentation to be at least 15 slides long.
• 01:34 So I'm being pretty specific there about what I want.
• 01:38 I'm also going to clarify the tone.
• 01:39 So I want to keep the tone informal.
• 01:42 So we're going to send this through.
• 01:44 I've given Copilot quite a bit of information to work with.
• 01:48 So in the background it's going away and it's pulling the relevant information from
• 01:52 different sites and it's going to build the presentation for me.
• 01:56 Now, I will say that the presentation that it builds as in the design can sometimes
• 02:01 be a little bit old-school looking, but remember, every element can be changed.
• 02:06 So if you don't like the images that it chooses to use,
• 02:08 you can switch those out for your own.
• 02:10 The power here is the fact that you can start with nothing and
• 02:13 get the bare bones of a presentation in place,
• 02:16 because then it's going to be a lot quicker for you to simply modify it.
• 02:21 And you can see what is built here.
• 02:22 This actually looks pretty good.
• 02:23 I quite like the imagery it's used and also the color scheme.
• 02:27 As I said, every single element is editable.
• 02:31 But if we take a look, it has everything in there that I ask for,
• 02:34 the most common Yoga poses.
• 02:36 The history of Yoga and the different types of Yoga.
• 02:39 And it's created 15 slides, which was also one of the requirements in the prompt.
• 02:45 Now, another cool thing about working with copilot and
• 02:48 PowerPoint is that it will also add slide notes for you.
• 02:51 Take a look underneath each slide, I have those notes.
• 02:55 So if I was to go into presenter view, I'm going to be able to see those notes, which
• 03:00 is going to make my life a lot easier when I'm presenting this to an audience.
• 03:05 And of course you can modify those notes if you want to.
• 03:08 So let's just jump across to Presenter View.
• 03:10 And there you go.
• 03:11 You can see the slides and we can see those notes.
• 03:15 So I really like that feature.
• 03:16 I love that it adds notes.
• 03:18 Let's get Copilot to change all of the title placeholders to bold.
• 03:23 This is another really cool little feature.
• 03:25 Let's try replacing all of the fonts because I don't really like this font.
• 03:29 So we're going to type in our prompt replace all fonts with Aptos.
• 03:34 And Aptos is one of the newer fonts in PowerPoint 365.
• 03:38 And there you go.
• 03:39 You can see that immediate on that title slide, we now have Aptos font in use.
• 03:43 So you can use Copilot to make further modifications and edits to your slides.
• 03:49 What about removing bullets?
• 03:50 Let's try and remove the bullets from slide number 3.
• 03:53 And you can see it's managed to cope with that as well.
• 03:56 Now, I don't particularly like that, so
• 03:58 I'm going to undo to put those bullets points back again.
• 04:01 But hopefully you can see the types of things that you can do.
• 04:04 Now, let's jump to the last slide.
• 04:07 And maybe I don't want this slide in the presentation, so
• 04:10 I'm just going to say delete slide 15 from the presentation.
• 04:14 Let's see if Copilot can handle that as well.
• 04:16 Yes, it can.
• 04:17 And that slide has now gone.
• 04:19 So very quickly here, we've managed to create a presentation from nothing.
• 04:23 It's designed pretty nicely and we've managed to make some really cool edits.
• 04:28 And as I mentioned, we can use designer in
• 04:30 collaboration with Copilot to make design changes to our slides.
• 04:35 So if I go through each slide and click on Designer,
• 04:37 you can see that I'm getting different slide layouts.
• 04:40 Now these are all fairly similar, they're just very slightly different.
• 04:43 So maybe I like this one at the bottom.
• 04:46 Let's switch that out.
• 04:47 I think that looks a lot nicer.
• 04:48 Now if we go back to copilot and click on View Prompts and go into create,
• 04:53 we can say add a slide about.
• 04:55 So maybe I've decided that I want to add another slide into this presentation about
• 04:59 the health benefits of Yoga.
• 05:02 And you can see, there we go, it's added it in with the relevant text and
• 05:06 I can then just pick it up and drag it to the correct position.
• 05:09 So I'm going to put this at the end of the presentation.
• 05:12 So hopefully, you've seen there are a few examples of how easy and
• 05:15 quick it is to create a presentation from scratch.
• 05:18 Use Designer to redesign the slides.
• 05:21 And use copilot to make modifications, like changing the fonts,
• 05:26 changing the text, and deleting slides.

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