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Is copilot capable of rebuilding an EXISTING PowerPoint presentation based on a referenced POTX
Copilot told me it is possible "Yes, it is indeed possible to use Copilot for M365 in PowerPoint to open an old presentation and prompt Copilot to rebuild it using a specific company template.......A...
- Kindly try below steps:
1. Open PowerPoint Template which you want to use for creating a presentation
2. Type Create a presentation from "use the file" then it will prompt a message "Creating a new presentation will replace your existing slides, so you may want to save a copy first. Do you want me to make changes?" Then click yes
"Creating a new presentation will replace your existing slides, so you may want to save a copy first. Do you want me to make changes?"
This is just to get confirmation / consent which an end-user has to provide so that Copilot can remove 'texts' from the existing template and add relevant content from the PowerPoint file which has been referred...
- Hi Ankur, thanks for your reply. Much appreciated. I tried it but did not get the desired result. This is what happened:
My prompt: Change this presentation using the powerpoint template [url to POTX on SharePoint]
Copilot "Creating a new presentation will replace your existing slides, so you may want to save a copy first. Do you want me to make changes?"
My prompt: Yes, please
Copilot "Sorry, I can’t do that just yet. For now, I can only create a presentation from a Word or PDF document. Start typing the name of a file, or copy and paste a link, and I’ll make some slides for you to edit."
I also tried with other wordings like Rebrand, Rebuild.- Kindly try below steps:
1. Open PowerPoint Template which you want to use for creating a presentation
2. Type Create a presentation from "use the file" then it will prompt a message "Creating a new presentation will replace your existing slides, so you may want to save a copy first. Do you want me to make changes?" Then click yesAnkur_B This does not work for me, I can only create presentations from docx or pdf file in Powerpoint desktop version, and from excel file in WEB version of PowerPoint. But no possibility to supply existing Powerpoint task to Copilot to build new presentation from. Am I missing anything? Thank you
