You have a presentation to finish by the end of the day, but instead of focusing on the story, you are searching for the latest template, fixing fonts and colors, and repeating the same review steps you completed last time. What should be a creative process can quickly turn into a checklist of small, time-consuming tasks.
Brand Kit and Skills in Copilot in PowerPoint can help with those hurdles. Brand Kit helps presentations to start with the appropriate look from your organization, while Skills make familiar workflows repeatable, so you can spend your time shaping the message.
Company branding at scale with Brand Kit
First, there is the challenge of getting the look right. Brand Kit brings your organization’s templates, imagery, icons, fonts, and other assets into the PowerPoint creation experience. Instead of hunting through folders or reworking slides at the end, you can give Copilot the visual foundation it needs from the start, rather than requiring a separate clean up pass later.
Start with an approved Brand Kit
When starting a presentation, choose an approved Brand Kit so Copilot can create with your organization’s visual identity in mind so it’s not inferring what “on brand” means.
From there, Copilot can draw on the kit’s templates and assets as it builds or updates slides, helping the presentation feel familiar and cohesive.
Prompts to try after selecting Brand Kit:
- Create a 10-slide deck for my marketing team based on our latest campaign
- Add an executive summary slide to this deck based on my last monthly business review
- Add an image for this product from my Brand Kit
Add guardrails where it matters
In some cases, like for presentations that have highly regulated internal requirements, brand managers can take governance one step further. Now, with a mode for stricter brand adherence, Copilot follows approved layouts aligned with company standards instead of suggesting creative layouts. Brand managers can also add slide-by-slide direction. Since these notes live inside an organization’s Brand Kit, the presentation a team builds incorporates the same guidance from the brand manager. These controls give organizations additional ways to support brand consistency. Learn more here
How to try it
When you create a presentation in PowerPoint, select an available Brand Kit and describe the presentation you want Copilot to create. You can also ask Copilot to use approved assets by your organization or bring an existing slide into alignment with the selected brand guidance.
Automate repeatable presentation workflows with Skills
Getting a unified visual foundation is one part of the work. Once the slides are on-brand, you may still need to review the story, anticipate questions, or rethink how a slide communicates its point. These are familiar tasks, but they can take a fresh round of prompts and edits every time.
Skills package those multi-step workflows into capabilities you can use again. Instead of rebuilding the process prompt by prompt, you can call on a Skill to guide Copilot through the steps for cohesive results.
Start with prebuilt Skills
Microsoft provides prebuilt Skills for common presentation tasks directly in the Copilot chat pane in PowerPoint. The list is growing, but some example for end users include:
- @Prepare for Questions is generally available and helps users get ahead of difficult questions with slide-level support
- @Review Presentation is generally available and provides slide-by-slide, executive-level feedback on a presentation.
- @Visualize Slide turns the content of a slide into a polished image or infographic.
Build reusable personal Skills
If users need flexibility beyond a prebuilt skills, they can also create personal skills for custom workflows such as improving a story, applying a preferred review framework, or creating follow-up material. Instead of rewriting and refining the same prompt every time, the workflow becomes a reusable skill that can be uploaded, accessed and managed directly within Copilot in PowerPoint so it’s ready the next time you need it.
How to try it
Open the Copilot chat pane in PowerPoint and choose a prebuilt Skill for a common task, or create a Custom Skill for a workflow you want to reuse. You can keep favorite Skills turned on and switch off the ones you use less often. Learn how to upload you own custom skill here
Scale custom skills specific to your organization
Personal Skills make your own workflows repeatable, but many presentation practices, such as following messaging guidance or using a preferred review framework, need to be shared across a team. Administrators can publish approved Skills to specific users, groups, or the entire organization. This means the workflows from your organization are available directly in PowerPoint, without each person having to create or upload them individually.
Get Started with Brand Kit and Skills in PowerPoint today
Brand Kit in PowerPoint and Skills in PowerPoint are generally available today with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Join our live webinar to learn more right from the PowerPoint product leader or visit the following resources below:
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