Copilot in PowerPoint: Status of Word-from-OneDrive Feature for Personal Accounts

Thanks, I appreciate your reply. I actually discovered that workaround myself some time after my original post.

Before that, I tried something else I found online. I joined Microsoft 365 Insider on the Current Channel (Preview), updated PowerPoint, and the interface changed a bit, but it was worse. I still couldn’t create a PPT from a file using “/”, and the paperclip icon never appeared. I also tried “Create a presentation from a file” and pasted a shared OneDrive link. I got a message saying the file needed to be saved in SharePoint for it to work, which sounded like it only works with a business M365 account. I didn’t try the Beta Channel because I figured it would be the same.

I unsubscribed from Microsoft 365 Insider, PowerPoint reverted to the regular build, and then I tried your method again: “Create a presentation from a file” and paste the OneDrive link. This time it worked and generated the PPT from a Word document as Microsoft’s docs describe. The odd part was that at the end Copilot said it only partially completed the Word-to-PPT transfer because the model “lacked practice,” which felt strange given I’m on Copilot Pro.

Would you mind sharing which subscriptions you use? From what I have seen, the standard Copilot in Microsoft 365 Personal or Family did not work for this flow, and I only got it to work with Copilot Pro. That is just my observation, not official guidance, and it has been hard to find clear Microsoft documentation on this. I may have missed a document that explains it better, so your answer to this new question would really help me rule things out.