Create a presentation and add a slide with Copilot in PowerPoint moving to Agent Mode in the Copilot chat pane

Creating presentations and adding slides with Copilot in PowerPoint will move from the Sparkle icon to Agent Mode in the Copilot chat pane across Windows, Web, and Mac by mid-April. Users will access this via the Copilot icon, select Agent Mode, and interact through chat to draft and refine presentations. Organizations should update training and notify users accordingly. As part of our efforts to simplify our experiences, creating a presentation and adding a slide with Copilot will soon no longer be available via the Sparkle icon above the slide in PowerPoint for Windows, Web, and Mac. Instead, you can access the ability to create a presentation with Agent Mode via the Copilot chat pane in PowerPoint. Our goal with this change is to converge our experiences into chat to provide a single, consistent Copilot experience when working with presentations on Windows, Web, and Mac. When will this happen: We are targeting the removal of the Sparkle icon above the slide in PowerPoint and the redirection to Agent Mode to begin rolling out mid-March on Web and complete by end of March. For Windows and Mac, we are targeting to begin rolling out at the end of March and complete by mid-April. See Microsoft 365 Roadmap | Microsoft 365 for other new capabilities coming in April and beyond. How this will affect your organization: Once the change has rolled out, users will need to follow these steps to create a presentation with Copilot: Start a new presentation in PowerPoint. Click on the Copilot icon in the lower right-hand corner in PowerPoint to open the Copilot chat pane. Click on the Tools button in input box within the Copilot chat pane. Click on Agent Mode in the drop down menu. Type in a prompt with a description of the presentation you’d like Copilot to help you draft. Note: Support for referencing files is coming soon. Click the -> button to submit your prompt. Copilot may ask you some clarifying questions such as who is the target audience of the presentation, what presentation and image style you’d like, etc. before generating an outline […]

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