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• Draft and add content
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• Create a new presentation
• Add a slide or image
• Summarize your presentation
• Organize your presentation
• Use your organization's branding
• Copilot in PowerPoint for mobile devices
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• Identify insights
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• Create a to-do list and tasks
• Create project plans in OneNote

Create a new presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint

Note:  This feature is available to customers with either a Copilot for Microsoft 365 (work) or Copilot Pro (home) license.

Create a new presentation in PowerPoint.

Select Send and Copilot will draft a presentation for you!

Edit the presentation to suit your needs, ask Copilot to add a slide , or start over with a new presentation and refine your prompt to include more specifics. For example, "Create a presentation about hybrid meeting best practices that includes examples for team building."

Create a presentation with a template

Copilot can use your existing themes and templates to create a presentation. Learn more about making your presentations look great with Copilot in PowerPoint .

Enter your prompt or select Create presentation from file to create a first draft of your presentation using your theme or template.

Edit the presentation to suit your needs, ask Copilot to add a slide , organize your presentation, or add images.

Create a presentation from a file with Copilot

Note:  This feature is available to customers with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license for full options, or a Copilot Pro license for limited options.

With Copilot in PowerPoint, you can create a presentation from an existing Word document—or a PDF if you have a Copilot for Microsoft 365 (work) license. Point Copilot in PowerPoint to your document, and it will generate slides, apply layouts, create speaker notes, and choose a theme for you.

Select the document you want from the picker that appears. If you don't see the document you want, start typing any part of the filename to search for it. You can use a Word document—or, if you have a Copilot for Microsoft 365 (work) license, you can use a PDF, and encrypted documents are available as well.

Note:  If the file picker doesn't appear, type a front slash (/) to cause it to pop up.

Best practices when creating a presentation from a Word document

Leverage word styles to help copilot understand the structure of your document.

By using Styles in Word to organize your document, Copilot will better understand your source document structure and how to break it up into slides of a presentation. 

Include images that are relevant to your presentation

When creating a presentation, Copilot will try to incorporate any images in your Word document. If you have images that you would like to be brought over to your presentation, be sure to include them in your Word document.

Start with your organization's template

If your organization uses a standard presentation template, start with this file before creating a presentation with Copilot. Starting with a template will let Copilot know that you would like to retain the presentation's theme and design. Copilot will use existing layouts to build a presentation for you. Learn more about making your presentations look great with Copilot in PowerPoint .

Tip:  Copilot works best with Word documents that are less than 24 MB.

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Use Copilot to create and edit awesome PowerPoint presentations

july 26, 2024

by Deb Ashby

Are you looking for an efficient way of creating modern, multi-slide PowerPoint presentations? If so, then Microsoft Copilot is a game-changer! Copilot is an everyday AI companion that can work with you inside your favorite Office applications, making you more efficient and productive.

In this article, we are going to explore how to use Copilot and Microsoft Designer , a powerful AI design tool, in PowerPoint to quickly create and edit presentations.

Set yourself up for Success: Copilot pre-requisites

In PowerPoint, the Copilot icon can be found on the Home ribbon.

If the Copilot button is greyed out (inaccessible), we need to make sure that we have completed the following steps:

• Save the presentation to the OneDrive account associated with your Copilot license ( File > Save As > OneDrive ).
• Toggle on autosave.

Create a presentation with Copilot

In this scenario, we are a tech startup called Infotech. We are looking to create a sales pitch presentation to dazzle potential investors.

Let’s use Copilot to help us with this.

Create a blank presentation

• Open PowerPoint.
• From the File tab, click New and select Blank Presentation .

• From the Home tab, select Copilot.

The Copilot pane

The Copilot pane is split into halves. The top half shows four prompt suggestions, which are a good place to start when using Copilot.

The lower half is where we type our prompts and ask questions.

• Select Using this presentation.

Note: The prompt area has dictation capabilities which can be useful for people with accessibility or mobility issues. Click the microphone icon to speak instead of type.

• In the prompt box, type the following: “Create a sales pitch presentation for a tech startup called Infotech to impress potential investors and secure investments."

• Click Send .

Copilot will generate a multi-slide presentation with placeholder text. This text is AI-generated based on the prompt you provided.

Redesign slides with Microsoft Designer

The AI-generated images in the presentation provide a starting point. You can further customize the presentation with your own or your organization’s images.

• Click on an image in the presentation.
• From the Picture Format tab, in the Adjust group, click Change Picture .
• Choose a picture source from the drop-down list.

In this example, I’m going to use a Stock Image .

• Click Insert .

We can change the look and feel of each slide in our presentation using Microsoft Designer, Microsoft’s AI design tool.

If you don’t see the Designer pane open automatically, click the Home tab and then Designer .

• Choose a new design to apply to the slide.

• Repeat this process for each slide in the deck to quickly redesign slides and achieve a consistent look.

Edit the presentation with Copilot

We can use Copilot to make edits and structural change to our presentation.

Speaker notes

A cool feature of Copilot is that it automatically creates speaker notes and adds them to the presentation.

• Click the View tab.
• In the Show group, click Notes .

The notes will show at the bottom of the slide. You can edit the notes from here or go to View > Notes Page for a more focused view of the notes.

Summarize the presentation

Copilot can summarize large presentations and produce a concise overview. This is useful if you are looking to send an email that gives people a summary of the key points in the presentation.

• Click in the prompt area.
• Type the prompt, “Summarize this presentation” .

Copilot will return a summary of the deck with references. The reference number tells us which slide in the desk the summary item relates to.

• Click Copy to copy the summary to the clipboard.

We can now paste this information into an Outlook email, a Teams channel, a Word document etc.

Create a presentation from a file

When we create a presentation from scratch using Copilot, the text and images are AI-generated.

We can create more customized presentations by starting with an existing document.

• From File , click New and choose Blank presentation .
• On the Home tab, click Copilot .
• Choose the prompt, “Create a presentation from file.”

In this example we are going to use an existing Word document. To use an existing file, the file needs to be saved in OneDrive.

• Click the Files tab.
• Select the file from the list.

Alternatively, we can paste the link to the OneDrive file directly into the prompt area.

• Open the file.
• Click Share and Copy Link.
• Click Copy .

• Go back to PowerPoint and paste the link into the prompt area.

Copilot will use the information and images in the file to build a presentation. It will automatically add notes to each slide and show you the outline the presentation will be based on.

We can then use Designer to redesign our slides or manually make changes.

What do you think of Microsoft Copilot and Designer in PowerPoint?

Remember, we’ve only scratched the surface here with what Copilot can do. I encourage you to try it out for yourself and start unleashing the power of Copilot!

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The way we create PowerPoint designs is being revolutionized by artificial intelligence. New AI tools are making it easier than ever for anyone to create professional, visually-appealing presentations. In this post, we’ll explore the possibilities of AI tools to help with designing PowerPoint slides.

Microsoft PowerPoint now also includes PowerPoint Designer a feature that uses AI to generate design suggestions for your slides. It can save time and effort while bringing visually polished results. Other programs like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot can also assist by crafting entire slides or presentations with just a text prompt.

Beyond the slide design stage, AI is playing a bigger role in the process of how presentations are created. Services like Canva offer templates with automatically curated images and graphic elements. SlideSpeak uses AI to fully create entire presentations from any Word or PDF document.

AI tools are also a game-changer for corporates and companies creating lots of PowerPoints. You can now get corporate templates that use AI to keep all your slides consistent with CI guidelines. Making PowerPoints is probably soon going to be as easy as typing up a few key points to cover and letting the AI do the magic for you. So far tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini have only made writing easier, but what about the design of presentations and PowerPoints?

In this post, we’ll explore the leading AI tools helping you to with PowerPoint design. Whether you want to save time, boost visuals, or ensure brand consistency… AI opens up new possibilities! Read on to learn how you can now leverage AI to elevate your PowerPoint presentations.

Last but not least we will look at tools like that fix your design layout. I’m sure you’ve heard of DeckRobot. We will take a look what possibilities users have here and compare results.

Here’s an overview of AI tools promising to help you with designing PowerPoints:

Microsoft 365 Copilot

• ChatGPT and GPTs

Let’s dig into it… 🕵️

Side Note: interested in creating a presentation from Excel, check out our blog post about that: https://slidespeak.co/blog/2024/05/13/how-to-create-powerpoint-from-excel/

Microsoft recently introduced some powerful new AI capabilities for PowerPoint – Copilot and Designer . PowerPoint Copilot can generate entire slides including their content. For example, while creating a presentation, Copilot can add a conclusion slide at the end. Using PowerPoint Designer you can then pick from multiple layout options for your presentation. Simply apply a theme and PowerPoint Designer will provide professionally designed slide layout recommendations that compliment your content, with no graphic design experience required. The AI handles all layout changes and images automatically. As of right now images added by Copilot and Designer can still look a bit out of place and weird. But we will dig into that in detail in a second. Microsoft PowerPoint Copilot and Designer ultimately allow you to build creative PowerPoint decks using just text prompts and some guidance from the AI. They make slide design easier than ever.

Step-by-step guide

Let’s have a look at how AI can help us to design a PowerPoint presentation with Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Step 1: Open PowerPoint Copilot

You’re wondering where to find Copilot in PowerPoint? In the top right corner of PowerPoint you will find a “Copilot” button. But that being said Copilot will only be visible in your PowerPoint if you have an active subscription for Microsoft Copilot.

After you’ve selected “Copilot” you will see a side panel showing you an option to create a presentation with AI. Go ahead and enter a topic for your presentation.

Step 2: Enter a topic for your presentation

I want to design a presentation about Quality Assurance in Software. So I’ve gone ahead and asked Microsoft Copilot to design me a presentation about that. After a few seconds it pulled together a PowerPoint. The content was a bit underwhelming and short (only 6 slides), but it’s a starting point.

You can also see that Microsoft Copilot directly suggests that you can change the design and layout of your slides with “Designer”. Let’s see what “Designer” can do for us…

Step 3: Open PowerPoint Copilot Designer

As soon as you click on the “Designer” icon in the top right or in the suggestion link in the Microsoft Copilot AI answer it will give you new design suggestions for the current PowerPoint slide. This is pretty cool and come in really handy if you’re looking for a design that matches your content best.

You can literally switch the design of one particular slide by clicking on the design in the right side panel. If you want to change the overall design of all slides you can go ahead and click on the “Design” tab in the top tool bar.

Step 4: Change the design layout of all slides

In order to change the design of all slides in your PowerPoint simply click on the “Design” tab. Now you can pick from all of your PowerPoint templates and layouts.

The only issue is that if you change the design for all slides the AI generated slides get a bit messed up and you will end up fixing the issues. That’s indeed a bit counter productive since the whole point of using an AI tool is to save time. It seemed that after going through all slides and selecting a new design in “Designer” most of the layout issues were fixed. That’s some good news at least! Yey!

Microsoft 365 Copilot Pro

Microsoft 365 Copilot Pro is the basic version for individual. It comes at a cost of $20/month in addition to your existing Microsoft 365 subscription.

Pricing: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/b/copilotpro

Microsoft Copilot Enterprise

If you’re an Enterprise customer then the price is even higher. Microsoft Copilot for Enterprise starts at $30/month .

Pricing: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business/copilot-for-microsoft-365#Pricing

• Copilot works alongside you to create, edit, understand, and ask questions to help build presentations
• Can generate draft presentations by giving Copilot a topic
• Summarizes key points of longer presentations
• Restructures and organizes slides, allowing you to decide if the changes work
• Generates slides using your organization’s branding
• Create, edit, understand, and ask Copilot prompts to refine its suggestions
• Available on mobile to review decks and generate summaries

Overall Rating: 3/5 ⭐️

In general Microsoft PowerPoint copilot gave a solid impression but was a bit clunky at times. It was especially annoying that the designs looked a bit cheap and broken. We expected a bit more. Additionally Microsoft PowerPoint Copilot chat bot can only adjust textual content and not the designs. It can save some time when creating presentations from scratch, but if you’re creating editing an existing one it’s pretty much useless.

ChatGPT and GPTs (ChatGPT Plugins)

ChatGPT and its expanding ecosystem of AI tools have the potential to change how we design PowerPoint presentations in the coming years. Rather than struggling to create designs, presenters can instead focus on content and messaging strategy while using AI to design PowerPoint slides. As AI features continue to get better and better, we may soon reach a point where one can simply describe the intended storyline and visual impacts, and the AI will automatically morph the slides to match. Tools like SlideSpeak are trying to do exactly that (more about that later).

Image generation tools like Dall-E and Midjourney have been all over news and can create stunning images that sometimes are even hard to recognized as AI generated.

Additionally ChatGPT recently launched it’s GPT Store , which allows developers to create custom GPTs that can accomplish specific tasks like creating presentations and PowerPoints. There is already a bunch of custom GPTs that allow you to create PowerPoint presentations for any topic.

• SlideSpeak GPT: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-4fGuYnJC6-presentation-gpt-by-slidespeak
• Presentation Creator: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-4ohyS9OlJ-presentation-creator
• Slide Creator: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-cJtHaGnyo-slide-creator

More specific GPTs to create images and illustrations exist if you want to enhance specific slide designs or generate infographics, charts or other visuals.

Unfortunately there is no GPT available that generates PowerPoint templates for you as of right now. We will look at a few GPTs that help you make your slides more appealing.

The only downside here is that in order to use the new ChatGPT plugins (also called GPTs) you need a paid ChatGPT Plus or Premium subscription.

GPT Plugins for Infographics

Canva gpt plugin.

The Canva GPT is amazing and can help you a lot when you want to create infographics or any kind of visuals for your PowerPoint presentation. We found it incredibly useful especially for simple graphics to visualize ideas in our design.

Here’s a quick example…

We’ve asked the Canva GPT to create a graphic for a SWOT analysis and after a few seconds it showed up.

But you can take it even a step further. Let’s ask the Canva GPT to generate a presentation for a monthly retrospective meeting.

We prompted it with “Generate a presentation for a monthly retrospective meeting” and this is the result:

This is quite cool, Canva generated us two presentation designs and ask us which we prefer. We can now click on the presentation design we like more and finish the presentation in Canva.

There’s a small caveat: If you later want to download that presentation for PowerPoint, you will need a paid Canva account.

SlideSpeak GPT

SlideSpeak GPT is a handy plugin that enables users to create slides and presentations effortlessly by simply providing the topic they want to present. While this plugin simplifies the process of creating presentations, a drawback is that it currently only supports one design template. The team is currently working on adding more designs. Despite this limitation, SlideSpeak GPT can be a useful tool for quickly generating basic presentations when design flexibility is not a top priority.

Let’s ask SlideSpeak GPT to design a presentation for a monthly retrospective meeting. After a few seconds it gave us back a direct download link for the presentation.

If we click on the link we will see the full presentation with all its slides. The big benefit here is that the presentation can be downloaded as a PowerPoint file too.

Whimsical GPT

The Whimsical GPT plugin brings the power of AI to visual diagramming by enabling users to generate flowcharts, mind maps, and sequence diagrams directly from text directly in ChatGPT. If you’re looking to create more advanced diagramming capabilities like the Sticky Notes AI feature, they will need to use the full Whimsical application. Let’s give it a try and see what we can design with the Whimsical GPT.

Let’s as it to create a flow chart for the onboarding process of a new employee. This could later be added to a PowerPoint design.

You can now download this flow chart and add it to your presentation.

SlideSpeak is an AI tool that uses ChatGPT to create entire PowerPoint presentations for you. It’s super handy if you need to put together slides on a topic but don’t want to spend hours formatting and designing them from scratch.

The big benefit is you can upload documents to SlideSpeak like Word documents, PDF or another PowerPoint presentation. SlideSpeak will then take the content of that document and create an entire presentation for you with a new design.

The best part is that it leverages the latest ChatGPT AI, so the content is surprisingly good and human-like. If you don’t have a document then you can also let SlideSpeak create a presentation for any given topic or a custom prompt.

It’s a huge time-saver compared to building presentations manually. The AI helps ensure professional, visually-appealing results without you having to spend ages on design work.

Let’s dig into how the tool works. We will try to re-design an existing presentation and make it more visually appealing.

We will take the following plain black and white presentation and let SlideSpeak re-design it.

Step 1: Upload an existing presentation to SlideSpeak

Go to https://slidespeak.co and upload your existing PowerPoint presentation.

Step 2: Click on Generate Presentation

Now click on “Generate Presentation”. You will see a window in which you can select a few details about the PowerPoint design that will be generated. SlideSpeak will give you options to add images, a custom logo and other things like colors.

Step 3: Select Presentation Design

In the next step you can select the design template that you want to use for your presentation. This is the last step before the presentation actually gets generated for you.

At the moment SlideSpeak only offers two designs you can select from. They are working on additional templates, so stay tuned.

If you now click on “Generate” then it will generate the redesigned presentation for you.

Step 4: Download your presentation

You can now download the presentations as a PowerPoint file by clicking on “Download PowerPoint”. Feel free to make final adjustments to your design and add your own logo and colors.

SlideSpeak offers a flexible pricing model. If you’re just get started you can sign up for the free plan which allows you to generate 1 presentation using ChatGPT 3.5. For more advanced requirements, there’s a $19/month Premium plan supporting up to 50 files, ChatGPT 4 access, and no file size limits. However, the most popular option seems to be the $24/month Premium Plus plan designed for power users – it provides unlimited file uploads, top-tier ChatGPT 4 capabilities, and premium features like custom design templates.

• Generate presentations from documents (PDF, PPTX, DOCX)
• Select your design template and AI generate your presentation
• Upload custom PowerPoint templates to maintain a consistent design between files
• Affordable pricing plans
• Exciting roadmap features planned (PowerPoint designs with diagrams and more)

SlideSpeak seems to be on the right path to help users design PowerPoint presentations without doing all the tedious manual work. The only downside is that it currently only supports 2 templates. SlideSpeak is already working on the support for more templates and will soon release a feature to also generate graphics like charts, infographics and diagrams in presentations. The project is very promising so stay tuned for more updates.

Decktopus is an AI presentation platform that helps use with slide creation and design. It leverages artificial intelligence to automate tasks like research, content writing, image generation and more. With its intuitive drag-and-drop presentation editor, professional templates and collaboration tools, Decktopus allows users to design visually compelling presentations easier than ever.

Let’s create a presentation with Decktopus and see how much it helps us to create a presentation design.

Step 1: Open Decktopus

Head over to https://decktopus.com and sign into your account. You will see that you have three options in order to get started when creating a new presentation in Decktopus. You can create the presentation from scratch or with AI. In this guide we will create a presentation with AI for a given topic.

Step 2: Select the topic for your presentation

Afterwards you need to select the topic for your presentation. In this example we’ve entered “Wildlife in Africa” after which Decktopus asked us to specify what the target audience for the presentation is. This will most likely make sure that the style of the presentation generated matches the audience (smart!).

Step 3: Pick presentation design

After you’ve selected your presentation topic and the target audience Decktopus will ask you to select one of their presentation designs.

At the time of this writing Decktopus only offered 6 different templates to chose from. We’ve selected the minimal design for this example.

Tada… This it. For the last step, you’ll want to download the presentation that the AI tool whipped up for you. Don’t worry, all the hard work is done – the AI handled the research, writing content, and adding images. But now it’s time to make it your own in PowerPoint.

Decktopus has two main plans for making presentations. The Pro plan costs $9.99 a month (paid yearly) and gives you lots of features like AI help, PDF/PPT downloads, and analytics. The Business plan is $34.99 a month (paid yearly) and adds more, like custom web links and team management, for businesses. Students get a 50% discount.

• AI Presentation Maker: Automatically suggests audience and purpose based on your topic.
• Professional Templates: Wide selection of themes for visually appealing presentations.
• Customizable Duration: Set the length of your presentation as needed.
• AI-Generated Speaker Notes: Provides you with notes to enhance your speaking confidence.
• Editable Content: Allows for changes post-creation for perfect customization.
• Collaborative Features: Enables working together with team members on presentations.
• Magic Button: Instant design improvements with a single click.
• Mobile Responsiveness: Design and edit presentations on any mobile device.

Overall Rating: 2/5 ⭐️

Decktopus is a simple tool that helps make presentations easily with AI. It’s good for beginners and has cool features like quick design fixes with a Magic Button and help with what to say through AI notes. But, when you compare it to other tools like MS Office 365 Copilot or SlideSpeak, Decktopus doesn’t have as many design choices. This can make it hard to make your presentation look just the way you want.

Even though it’s easy to use, it doesn’t match up to others because of its few templates. Because of this, I’d give Decktopus a 2/5 stars review. It’s okay for simple stuff but not the best choice if you need lots of options or want to get really creative.

AI is really shaking things up in how we design PowerPoint slides. It’s now a lot easier to create professional presentation designs without being an expert. For example, PowerPoint now has a special feature that suggests awesome designs for your slides. And with AI tools like ChatGPT and SlideSpeak, you can even get a whole presentation made just by telling the AI what you want.

But there’s more on the horizon, especially with AI tools that can create images, like Dall-E and Midjourney. These tools are getting better at making pictures that can make your slides stand out even more. SlideSpeak is one of these tools that’s already making it simpler to turn a document into a presentation with a new design. And as these AI tools keep getting better, we can expect to see even more amazing stuff that can do things like make better templates or add cool images to our slides.

So, while tools like Decktopus are great for beginners and have some neat features, they’re just starting. Compared to what’s coming with AI, especially for creating images, we’re just at the beginning. SlideSpeak and image-generating tools show us there’s a lot more exciting stuff ahead for making presentations.

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Are you spending what feels like an eternity working on PowerPoint slides? Well, it is time to break free from the PowerPoint prison and embrace a more enjoyable slide creation experience! We have got a secret weapon for you: the 11 best free AI PowerPoint generators to help you design PowerPoint slides in seconds ! Yes you heard it right, in seconds !

What is an AI PowerPoint Generator?

Creating professional and visually appealing PowerPoint presentations can be a time-consuming task. Fortunately, AI PowerPoint generators have made the task easier and faster than ever. An AI PowerPoint generator uses advanced artificial intelligence algorithms to generate professional-looking presentations in minutes, without the need for prior design expertise.

Most of the AI PowerPoint generators have the ability to analyze input prompts, generate relevant content, suggest appropriate layouts and designs, and provide customization options. Some of them have advanced AI capabilities such as generating images and quizzes from text input and converting documents to presentations, as we shall see. With AI PowerPoint Generators, users can create impressive presentations in a fraction of the time, empowering them to focus on delivering engaging and impactful messages to their audience.

Benefits of an AI PowerPoint Generator

• Automated slide generation based on input text
• Personalised, localised and interactive presentations slide generation 
• Time-saving solution compared to manual slide creation
• Easy incorporation of branding elements for consistent presentations
• Seamless collaboration features for team editing and feedback
• AI-powered suggestions for design elements (images, icons, videos)
• Wide range of export options including PPT, PDF, and video formats
• Creative suggestions and pre-made templates for design inspiration
• Advanced customization abilities

Top 11 Best Free AI PowerPoint Generators

We surveyed all the existing AI PowerPoint generators out there and narrowed down on what we believe are the 11 best free AI PowerPoint generators to help you design impressive slides in a fraction of the time it takes to do it manually! 

Best for Aesthetic Slides: Tome AI  

Best for Personalized Slides: Decktopus AI  

Best for Templates: SlidesGo

Best for Interactive Slides: Sendsteps.ai

Best for Quiz Slides:  ClassPoint AI

#1 ClassPoint AI – Interactive Quiz Slides in PowerPoint

Unlike typical PowerPoint generators, ClassPoint AI specializes in interactive slides generation. The main difference is that ClassPoint AI is integrated seamlessly with PowerPoint . 

ClassPoint AI also provides unmatched accuracy in the content and flexibility in customizing your quiz question slides, thanks to its intelligent algorithms. The quiz question slides are generated based on the existing content in your PowerPoint. You also have the ability to choose from various question types, including multiple-choice, open-ended short answers, and fill in the blanks questions. Additionally, you can tailor the cognitive complexity of your slides by utilizing Bloom’s Taxonomy levels. 

To get started, add some text to your PowerPoint slides. Then, ClassPoint AI will examine the texts of your slides and transform it into instant quiz questions. 

You can find a step-by-step guide on how to create quiz slides with ClassPoint AI here .

Special features:

• Quiz question slides generation based on text input.
• The ability to add interactive elements to PowerPoint slides.
• Customization options for quiz formats and Bloom Taxonomy levels.
• Multi-language support.
• Seamless integration with PowerPoint.
• Time-saving and automates the process of generating quiz question slides.
• Cognitive complexity customization to allow users to align the quiz question slides with specific cognitive levels.
• Dependency on textual content to generate quiz question slides, limiting its applicability in scenarios where visuals or multimedia play a significant role.
• Limited to Windows users.

800,000+ educators and professionals use ClassPoint AI to generate instant quiz slides right inside PowerPoint.

#2 Tome AI – Aesthetic AI Slides 

Tome AI is one of the popular options in the market to generate aesthetically pleasing PowerPoint slides with just a simple text input. 

You simply enter the title or topic you like and wait to let Tome AI do the magic for you. 

This is a sample slide deck generated by Tome AI. The visual is simply stunning!

One great feature of Tome AI is that the generated slides are fully editable. You have the freedom to change the theme, adjust the font, add shapes, tables, charts, and incorporate multimedia from your own library or the stock image options provided by Tome AI. 

Moreover, Tome AI offers seamless integration with collaborative work platforms such as Figma , Airtable , Miro , and Looker , making it ideal for cross-platform collaboration. What sets Tome AI apart is its additional AI capabilities, including text-to-image generation and document-to-presentation creation, enabling you to create stunning presentation slides in a matter of seconds.

Special Features:

• Integration with collaborative platforms including Figma, Airtable, Miro, Looker and Twitter.
• Text to image AI generator.
• Document to presentation AI generator.
• Fast and smart slide creation.
• Modern layout and user-friendly interface.
• Customization options including customisable themes, fonts, shapes, tables, charts and multimedia.
• Integration with various collaborative platforms to facilitate teamwork and sharing.
• Additional AI-powered capabilities to enhance presentation slides. 
• Support multiple languages.
• Limited slide layout options.
• Format limitations: Tome AI is currently not exportable into .pptx format, which may limit compatibility with other PowerPoint-related workflows. However, Tome AI supports slides export in .pdf format. You can easily convert your PDF into a PPT in Adobe Acrobat. 

#3 Gamma AI – Presentation Tools Powerhourse for Customisation

Gamma AI’s user interface is very similar to Tome AI’s. Like Tome AI, Gamma AI provides editable layout and templates for users, alongside a range of tools and blocks including images, AI generated images, videos, charts, diagrams and smart layouts. It also integrates seamlessly with apps like Figma, Airtable and Miroboard. But this is where their similarities end.

Compared to Tome AI, we have to say that Gamma AI’s toolkit is way more extensive and complete. From the selection of layout alone you already have access to a myriad of design options tailored to your specific needs, from circle stats and pyramid layout, to horizontal timeline and staircase layout, you name it.

What we really like about Gamma AI is its ability to embed interactive features like forms, buttons, apps and webpages, which many AI powerpoint generators lack.

And perhaps the best part is its ability to search the web for royalty-free images that you can use without worrying about copyright issues, making it a convenient and cost-effective solution for enhancing your projects with visually appealing content.

• Accent images generator to generate images that match the theme or branding.
• Web search ability for images.
• Extensive toolkits for advanced slides customisation.
• Integration with collaborative platforms including Figma, Airtable, Miro, Amplitude and PowerBI.
• Ability to export to PowerPoint.
• Extensive customisation options.
• AI-powered capabilities to enhance slide design process.
• Limited font options.
• Content generated by AI can be generic.

#4 ChatGPT – Automated PowerPoint Slides

It is common knowledge that ChatGPT can be used to generate presentation outlines, but not many are aware that ChatGPT, a powerful language model, can be utilized to generate PowerPoint slide decks using VBA codes. VBA, or Visual Basic for Applications in short, is a programming language that allows users to automate tasks in various Microsoft Office applications, including PowerPoint. 

Simply ask ChatGPT this prompt “Write me VBA PowerPoint codes on [topic]. Make it [number] slides.” And ChatGPT will generate codes that you can input in Visual Basic Editor in PowerPoint, an interface that allows you to write and edit custom scripts that automate actions in PowerPoint. 

What is Visual Basic Editor?

Visual Basic Editor is part of the Development tools in PowerPoint, to enable it, go to “Files” > “Options” > “Customize Ribbon” > “Main Tabs”, and enable the “Developer” option.

Copy the codes generated by ChatGPT. Once you open up the Visual Basic Editor interface, click “Insert Module”, paste the codes, then click “Play”. 

This is a sample output:

Indeed, the initial output may appear basic, but you have the power to unleash your creativity to enhance the slides design. A handy solution is to utilize PowerPoint’s built-in Designer , which enables you to effortlessly embellish the plain-looking slides by instantly adding images and designs.

Alternatively, if coding is not your forte, you can use ChatGPT to generate content and even design suggestions for your PowerPoint slides.

• Slides automation using codes.
• Slides design and content suggestions.
• Time-saving automation and efficiency.
• Natural language understanding: Generate relevant content and codes with basic text input.
• Limited design capability.
• Dependent on VBA Knowledge: Utilizing and troubleshooting VBA codes requires familiarity with PowerPoint developer tools, which may be a learning curve for users not familiar with VBA or coding.

#5 MagicSlides – AI Presentation Generator for Google Slides

Similar to SlidesAI, MagicSlides is a Google Workspace add-on that works very similar to ChatGPT, minus the coding part. To get the AI to generate slides, all you have to do is feed the AI with text or summaries of text, determine the number of slides, and let the AI do the rest of the work for you. 

MagicSlides offers selected templates to choose from, as well as the flexibility to customize colors and fonts to adjust the look and feel of the slides. MagicSlides also seamlessly integrated with  Pexels  where it sources high quality stock images from, which are entirely free-to-use.

MagicSlides now also offers quick document format conversion from YouTube, PDF, DOCS and URL to PPT, streamlining your presentation creation process.

Furthermore, you can Remix your slide with existing layout options to instantly transform your slide content to fit the new design or layout. This is handy especially if you prefer to take a backseat in slide designing.

• Integration with Pexels.
• Supports multiple languages.
• Fast and smart slide creation with simple text input. 
• Seamless integration with Google Workspace facilitates collaboration and sharing.
• Flexible export in various formats including .pptx and .pdf.
• Integration with Pexels allows users to access high-quality stock images right inside Google Slides.
• Localisation of content with multiple languages. 

Cons of using Magic Slides:

• Limited templates and design styles.
• Users need to put in additional effort to enhance the overall design and aesthetic appeal of the slides. However, there is layout library and remixing options to assist users in slides designing.

#6 Decktopus AI – Personalized AI Slides 

Decktopus AI goes beyond generic PowerPoint generators to offer the option to tailor presentation slides to user’s specific requirements, including target audience, objectives, themes, and the presentation duration. 

Once you enter a prompt, Decktopus will guide you through a simple 5-step process to gather relevant information to help create personalized presentation slides and designs. It also offers templates and design elements to allow personalisation of slides.

This is not it. Decktopus goes beyond content creation to provide advanced personalization options to users with its AI assistant. The “magic buttons” feature in Decktopus provides guided suggestions to users throughout the entire process of slide creation, including suggestions on suitable stock icons and images to use. Decktopus also offers other presentation capabilities including audio recording and form creation options for a responsive presentation experience. 

• Tailored presentation slides to target audience.
• AI Assistant/”Magic Buttons” provides guided multimedia and design recommendations.
• Advanced presentation features like audio recording and form creation.
• Quick and effortless presentations through smart slides generation and pre-designed templates. 
• Personalized and tailored slides based on target audience and objectives. 
• User-friendly experience.
• Guided slides design through AI recommendations.
• Real-time collaboration between team members.
• Limited export formats. Exporting in .pptx format will be a feature coming soon. 
• Limited customisation options.
• Limited AI credits – they have reduced their free AI credits and users have to upgrade to enjoy the AI-powered features.

#7 Presentations.AI – Made for Businesses

Presentations.AI provides users with the option to either create a presentation from text input, outline, imported PDF or company template.

Customization options become available after selecting a starting point. For example, if you select “Start from a company template” as the starting point, you have the options for designing presentations as class reports, research proposals or book reviews. They used to have more options to allow users to customise the slides according to target market, goals, company traction, competitors, and more.

Additionally, a notable feature of Presentations.AI is Clip-E , a creative AI partner within the tool, reminiscent of Clippy, the Microsoft Office assistant from the past. With Clip-E, you can issue a variety of commands to the AI, such as changing the presentation style, predicting next point, adding new sections, or even creating speaker notes. The AI assistant is always ready to assist you. 

There are also various customisation options including basic animations, styles, themes and presentation notes. An interesting features would be analytics which allow users to track analytics of the presentation such as views and engagement. However, this is a paid feature that users have to upgrade to enjoy.

Presentations.AI is also built with collaboration in mind. Team members can easily comment, add reactions, and mark the status of slides directly within the tool. 

• Advanced customization options based on selected presentation type.
• Integration of Clip-E AI assistant for issuing commands and making changes.
• Advanced collaboration features for team members including the abilities to comment, react, and mark slide statuses.
• Advanced slides personalisation.
• Clip-E AI assistant for additional support and commands.
• Collaboration capabilities for seamless teamwork.
• Presentation deck types are more catered towards businesses.
• Limited design customisation and flexibility.
• Associated fee for exporting to .pptx and .pdf formats.

#8 Canva Doc to Deck – From Doc to Presentation Deck

Canva Doc to Deck is a handy new AI feature in Canva that allows users to seamlessly convert their Canva documents into presentation slide decks. Canva is a popular online design tool that offers extensive templates, graphics, and design elements for creating designs for various purposes.

How it works is that you type the content you would like to be included in your presentation slides into a Canva document. Then, working exactly like Slides AI, Canva Doc to Deck will convert the text into presentable slides in Canva for you.

You can also select from the existing templates and themes given to give you a foundation to start building your presentation slides on. 

Afterwards, you can simply utilize Canva’s drag-and-drop interface and existing templates as well as design elements to effortlessly complete the slides design. 

• Seamless integration with Canva. 
• Drag-and-drop interface.
• Extensive design templates and elements.
• Canva’s Drag-and-drop interface makes design accessible to users of all skill levels.
• Versatile design options from an extensive library of design elements, templates, and customization options.
• Collaboration capabilities.
• Cross-platform compatibility.
• Advanced features and premium templates may require a subscription to Canva Pro.

#9 Simplified – Multi-Functional AI

As the name suggests, Simplified is a multi-functional AI that simplifies many tasks for its users, ranging from presentation-making and graphic designing, to copywriting, video editing, and social media management. 

Just like how most of the AI PowerPoint generators work, you simply need to enter a prompt to get it started. There is also the option to customise the design based on pre-made templates selection.

The designs generated may be simplistic and fall short in terms of variety. However, this is circumvented with the rich library of templates, icons, graphics, images and even stickers and doodles to choose from to enhance the visual diversity of the slides. 

Additionally, Simplified also has a built-in text to image AI generator, as well as Scribble to Art AI generator to allow users to further manifest their creativity in the presentation slides, features that many AI slides generators lack. 

• Multi-functional AI. 
• Customisable languages and creativity levels.
• Built-in text to image AI generator and Scribble to Art AI generator.
• Library of templates and assets.
• All-in-one tool: The extensive AI capabilities of Simplified allow users to receive assistance in all aspects of slide creation from design and copywriting to presentation creation to. 
• Rich library of templates and assets.
• Built-in text to image AI generator gives more variety to the visual appeal of the slides. 
• Flexible export in various formats including .png, .jpg, .pdf and .svg.
• Decks generated by Simplified are currently not exportable in the format of .pptx. But users can use Adobe Acrobat convert their PDF into a PPT in one click. 
• Limited free design templates.
• Limited customization ability for individual design elements.
• AI generators may not work at all times.

#10 SlidesGo + WePik – AI for PowerPoint Slides Templates Catalog

SlidesGo, the renowned catalog site for PowerPoint presentation templates, has recently introduced its own AI-powered PowerPoint generator tool.

To begin, input your desired topic like usual, then choose your desired style and tone from a diverse range of options to let the AI do its magic. We love that SlidesGo supports slides generation for multiple languages, making it versatile for all purposes.

To edit the slides generated by AI, SlidesGo’s sister project , Wepik allows you to make changes to the AI generated slides on the fly. You can make further customisation to the colors, fonts, design elements and branding with WePik’s direct integration with brand kit.

The best part is, you will also gain access to extensive resources from famous vector, stock image and icon libraries including  Freepik ,  Pexels  and  Flaticon !

• Customisation options for design styles and tones.
• Integration with vector and icon libraries like Freepik and Flaticon.
• The AI PowerPoint generator is a convenient add-on to SlidesGo, a popular PPT templates catalog site.
• Customization options including customisable colors, fonts, and design elements.
• Integration with Wepik’s brand kit feature enables a consistent visual identity.
• Access to extensive resources from well-known vector and icon libraries.
• Decks generated from SlidesGo are downloadable in .pptx format.
• WePik decks are easily exportable in various formats including .png, .jpg and .pdf.
• Muti-Language support.
• Limited slide editing and customisation options.
• Dependency on templates, limiting originality in the presentation slides.
• Decks generated by WePik are currently not exportable in the format of .pptx. But users can use Adobe Acrobat Pro to do the conversion from .pdf to .pptx in one click. 

#11 Sendsteps.ai – Interactive AI Slides

Finally, Sendsteps.ai, like ClassPoint AI, offers enhanced functionalities for crafting interactive presentation slides. Like other AI PowerPoint generators, you first input the prompt and select the customisation options including the tone, length and language.

Once the slides are generated by AI, you can easily include interactive elements like WordCloud, multiple choice questions, open-ended questions, and more to improve audience engagement. As compared to send steps.ai, the interactive quiz generation for ClassPoint AI is automatic.

However, if you prefer a more customised approach, Sendsteps.ai is perfect for you as it also has a library of diverse templates for you to choose from, ranging from icebreakers, quizzes, pitch decks and countdown templates. Once the slide creation is done, you can invite your audience to participate in the activities or quizzes online on  sendsteps.me .

• Ability to add an array of interactive elements ranging from WordCloud and multiple choice questions, to open-ended questions and countdown feature to your presentation slides.
• Document to Presentation conversion.
• Personalized and tailored slides based on target audience and language. 
• Interactive elements suggested by AI to prioritize audience engagement.
• Once exported to PowerPoint, the presentation deck loses its interactive ability.
• Users have to subscribe to access certain interactive elements.
• Free for up to 2 AI-generated presentation slides only. 

With a plethora of options to choose from, selecting the ideal AI PowerPoint generator will enable you to effortlessly create personalized and visually captivating presentation slides. Assess the distinctive features and limitations of each option to determine which one aligns best with your requirements.

It is time to say goodbye to the agony of spending hours on PowerPoint slides and say hello to a world of effortless slide creation! So why not give them a try?

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How to generate AI presentations with Visme

Save time and create beautiful designs quickly with Visme AI. Available inside the Visme template library, this AI Powerpoint generator is ready to receive your prompts and generate stunning ready-to-use presentations in minutes.

• Log in to the Visme dashboard, and open the template library by clicking on Create New button -> Project -> Presentations. Inside the template library, scroll down and click on the Generate with AI option.
• In the popup that opens, type in a prompt and describe in detail what aspects your presentation should feature. If you don’t provide enough information, chatbot will ask you follow-up questions.
• Visme Chatbot will suggest template styles; choose the most relevant for your presentation, and wait for the AI to create the design. Preview, regenerate or open your project in the Visme editor.
• Customize your project in Visme: Pick a color theme or create your own, edit text, and use assets from Visme’s royalty-free library of photos, videos, and graphics, or create your own with AI tools.

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Starting is often the hardest part of a project. Visme’s free AI presentation maker helps you overcome this block and generates results within minutes. Create AI PowerPoint online presentations quickly with a good first draft that is ready to use with minimal or no customization.

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Visme editor is easy to use and offers you an array of customization options. Change the color theme of your AI-generated presentation, text, fonts, add images, videos and graphics from Visme royalty-free library of assets or generate new ones with AI image generator, AI image touchup tools, or add your own. For more advanced customization, add data visualizations, connect them to live data, or create your own visuals.

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Stay on-brand even with AI-generated presentations. Quickly and easily set up your brand kit using AI-powered Visme Brand Wizard or set it up manually. Use your brand colors and fonts in AI-generated presentations. Add your logo and upload your brand assets to make a presentation match your company’s branding.

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More AI tools in Visme

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The Visme AI Image generator will automatically create any image or graphic. All you need to do is write a prompt and let AI magic do the rest.

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Remove the background from an image to create a cutout and layer it over something else, maybe an AI-generated background. Erase elements of the image and swap them for other objects with AI-powered Erase & Replace feature.

Create scroll-stopping video and animation posts for social media and email communication. Embed projects with video and animation into your website landing page or create digital documents with multimedia resources.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

How can i get better results with the ai presentations maker.

Like any AI generator from a text tool, the prompt is everything. To get better results with the AI Presentation maker, you need better prompts. Write the prompt to be as detailed as possible. Include all the content topics you want the presentation to cover. As for style elements, there’s no need to include it in the prompt. Focus on choosing the style that you like from the Chatbot suggestions. Try to select the style that already features the color palette and shapes that you like. AI will change icons and photos based on text it generates.

How many AI Presentations can I generate?

Visme AI Presentation Maker is available in all plans and works on a per-credit basis. Every free account gets 10 credits, Starter accounts get 200, Pro gets 500 and Enterprise is unlimited. Every design generation costs 2 credits and usage of other AI tools costs 1 credit.

Is the Visme AI Designer a third-party API?

No, Visme AI Presentation maker was developed in-house and is a unique tool. However, it does use third-party APIs: ChatGPT and Unsplash.

Are the AI-generated presentations I make copyright-free?

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• Adapt photos and icons to complement the generated text.
• Create charts, graphs, and tables.
• Handle one project at a time.
• Include animations in projects only if the selected style features animation.
• Generate designs with a maximum length of 10 pages.

What can’t Visme AI Designer do?

Visme’s AI design generator can’t:

• Generate infographics, charts/graphs, whiteboards, web graphics, videos, or GIFs.
• Reproduce your text verbatim.
• Customize based on your specifications for color, shapes, graphics, and design style. Select a style that already resembles what you want in your project, and you can manually edit all design elements in the Visme editor.
• Create or modify diagrams, data widgets or infographics.
• Crawl external websites and gather information from them.
• Handle multiple projects at once.
• Generate designs more than 10 pages in length.

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#1. What Is AI PowerPoint?

Before we delve into the exciting world of AI-powered PowerPoint presentations, let's first understand the traditional approach. Traditional PowerPoint presentations involve manually creating slides, selecting design templates, inserting content, and formatting elements. Presenters spend hours and effort brainstorming ideas, crafting messages, and designing visually appealing slides. While this approach has served us well for years, it can be time-consuming and may not always result in the most impactful presentations.

But now, with the power of AI, your presentation can create its own slide content, summaries, and points based on input prompts. 

• AI tools can provide suggestions for design templates, layouts, and formatting options, saving time and effort for presenters. 
• AI tools can identify relevant visuals and suggest appropriate images, charts, graphs, and videos enhance the visual appeal of presentations. 
• AI tools can optimize language, proofread for errors, and refine the content for clarity and conciseness.

So, it is important to note that AI PowerPoint is not a standalone software but rather a term used to describe the integration of AI technology within the PowerPoint software or through AI-powered add-ons and plugins developed by various companies.

#2. Why Can AI PowerPoint Replace Traditional Presentations?

The mainstream adoption of AI PowerPoint is inevitable due to several compelling reasons. Let's explore why the use of AI PowerPoint is poised to become widespread:

Enhanced Efficiency and Time Savings

AI-powered PowerPoint tools automate various aspects of presentation creation, from content generation to design recommendations. This automation significantly reduces the time and effort required to create visually appealing and engaging presentations. 

By leveraging AI's capabilities, presenters can streamline their workflow, allowing them to focus more on refining their message and delivering a compelling presentation.

Professional and Polished Presentations

AI PowerPoint tools provide access to professionally designed templates, layout suggestions, and visually appealing graphics. This ensures that even presenters with limited design skills can create visually stunning presentations. 

AI algorithms analyze content, offer design recommendations, and provide language optimization, resulting in polished and professional presentations that capture and maintain audience attention.

Improved Creativity and Innovation

AI-powered PowerPoint tools encourage creativity and innovation in presentation design. With AI-generated suggestions, presenters can explore new design options, experiment with different layouts, and incorporate relevant visuals. 

By offering a wide range of design elements and customization options, AI PowerPoint tools empower presenters to create unique and captivating presentations that stand out from the crowd.

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Data-driven Insights and Visualizations

AI-powered PowerPoint tools excel in analyzing complex data and transforming it into visually appealing charts, graphs, and infographics. This enables presenters to effectively convey data-driven insights and make their presentations more informative and persuasive. 

By leveraging AI's data analysis capabilities, presenters can unlock valuable insights and present them in a visually engaging manner, enhancing audience understanding and engagement.

Continuous Advancements and Innovation

As AI technology continues to advance, so will the capabilities of AI PowerPoint tools. The integration of cutting-edge technologies, such as natural language processing, machine learning, and computer vision, will further enhance the functionalities and performance of these tools. 

With ongoing innovations and improvements, AI PowerPoint will become increasingly sophisticated, providing even more value to presenters and revolutionizing the way presentations are created and delivered.

#3. How To Create AI PowerPoint?

Here are some suggestions to help you create a PowerPoint AI in just a few minutes:

Copilot in PowerPoint is an innovative feature that aims to assist users in transforming their ideas into visually stunning presentations. Acting as a storytelling partner, Copilot offers various functionalities to enhance the presentation creation process.

• One notable capability of Copilot is to convert existing written documents into presentation decks seamlessly. This feature helps you to quickly transform written materials into engaging slide decks, saving time and effort.
• It can also assist in starting a new presentation from a simple prompt or outline. Users can provide a basic idea or outline, and Copilot will generate a preliminary presentation based on that input. 
• It offers convenient tools to condense lengthy presentations. With a single click, you can summarize a lengthy presentation into a more concise format, allowing for easier consumption and delivery. 
• To streamline the design and formatting process, Copilot responds to natural language commands. You can use simple, everyday language to adjust layouts, reformat text, and precisely time animations. This functionality simplifies the editing process, making it more intuitive and efficient.

Maybe you don't know, but since 2019 Microsoft PowerPoint has released 4 outstanding AI features :

• Designer Theme Ideas: The AI-powered Designer feature offers theme ideas and automatically selects suitable layouts, crops images, and recommends icons and high-quality photographs that align with your slide content. It can also ensure that the design ideas align with your organization's brand template, maintaining brand consistency.
• Designer Perspectives: This feature helps users refine their messaging by suggesting relatable references for large numerical values. By adding context or comparisons, you can make complex information easier to understand and enhance audience comprehension and retention.
• Presenter Coach : It allows you to practice your presentation delivery and receive intelligent feedback to improve your presentation skills. The AI-powered tool helps you pace your presentation, identifies and alerts you about filler words, discourages reading directly from slides, and offers guidance on using inclusive and appropriate language. It also provides a summary of your performance and suggestions for improvement.
• Inclusive Presentations with Live Captions, Subtitles, and Alt-Text: These features provide real-time captions, making presentations more accessible to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. Additionally, you can display subtitles in different languages, allowing non-native speakers to follow along with translations on their smartphones. The feature supports on-screen captions and subtitles in multiple languages.

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• Extensive Collection of Smart Slides: Choose from a vast selection of customizable smart slides that provide a jumpstart to your presentation. These templates are fully editable, allowing you to tailor them effortlessly to meet your specific needs.
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• On-Brand Presentations: Maintain brand consistency effortlessly with Beautiful.ai. Customize fonts, colors, and incorporate your company's logo to create presentations that align with your brand identity. The image library, featuring millions of free photos, enables you to select visuals that perfectly reflect your brand guidelines, ensuring a cohesive and professional look.
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If you want to experiment with AI tools in your presentations, or simply want to see how well AI can do. Here's a step-by-step guide on how to create an AI PowerPoint using AI presentation makers:

• Step 1 - Choose an AI Presentation Maker: There are various AI presentation makers available, such as Beautiful.ai, Simplified, or Tome, each with its unique features. Select the one that best suits your needs and sign up for an account if required.
• Step 2 - Select a Template: AI presentation makers offer a wide range of professionally designed templates. Browse through the templates and choose the one that aligns with your topic, audience, and desired visual style.
• Step 3 - Customize the Content: Start adding your content to the slides. This includes text, images, graphs, and any other media elements. AI presentation makers often provide content suggestions and automated formatting options to enhance your presentation.
• Step 4 - Utilize AI-Powered Features: Take advantage of the AI-powered features offered by the presentation maker. These may include automated content generation, design recommendations, intelligent layout assistance, and image suggestions. Let the AI analyze your content and provide relevant suggestions to enhance your slides.
• Step 5 - Optimize with AI-Language Tools: Some AI presentation makers incorporate language tools that can optimize your text, proofread for errors, and suggest improvements in clarity and impact. Make use of these tools to refine your presentation's messaging and ensure its effectiveness.
• Step 6- Preview and Fine-Tune: Once you've added all the content and utilized the AI features, preview your presentation to ensure everything looks cohesive and visually appealing. Make any necessary adjustments to the layout, formatting, or content placement.
• Step 7 - Present and Share: With your AI-powered PowerPoint presentation ready, it's time to present and share it with your audience. You can either export it as a PowerPoint file or use the presentation maker's built-in sharing options to collaborate or present it directly.

By following these steps and leveraging the AI capabilities of presentation makers, you can create engaging and visually impressive PowerPoint presentations in a fraction of the time. 

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AI-powered PowerPoint has revolutionized the way we create presentations. By harnessing the power of artificial intelligence, you can now create compelling slides, generate content, design layouts, and optimize your messaging easily.

However, AI PowerPoint is limited to just content creation and design. Incorporating AhaSlides into your AI PowerPoint presentations opens up endless possibilities to engage your audience! 

With AhaSlides, presenters can incorporate live polls , quizzes , wordclouds , icebreaker games and interactive Q&A sessions into their slides. AhaSlides features not only add an element of fun and engagement but also allow presenters to gather real-time feedback and insights from the audience. It transforms a traditional one-way presentation into an interactive experience, making the audience an active participant.

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Is there an AI for PowerPoint? 

Yes, there are AI-powered tools available for PowerPoint that can assist you in creating presentations such as Copilot, Tome, and Beautiful.ai. 

Where can I download PPT for free?

Some popular websites where you can download free PowerPoint templates include Microsoft 365 Create, SlideModels and SlideHunter.

What are the best topics PowerPoint presentations on Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a vast and evolving field so you can explore many interesting topics in a PowerPoint presentation. These are few suitable topics for presentation about AI: Brief Introduction about AI; Machine Learning Basics; Deep Learning and Neural Networks; Natural Language Processing (NLP); Computer Vision; AI in various industries, including Healthcare, Finance, Ethical Considerations, Robotics, Education, Business, Entertainment, Climate Change, Transportation, Cybersecurity, Research and Trends, Ethics Guidelines, Space Exploration, Agriculture and Customer Service.

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Artificial intelligence - Artificial intelligence is a simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, for examples: robots and computer systems.

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Let’s face it—presentations can be stressful. You have a goal and you want to be successful, and that’s when the fear, stress, and discomfort becomes real. Are you ready? Will your presentation help you land your message? Can you deliver the presentation effectively and in a way that maximizes your success? These are all real emotions that many people face when tasked with a making a presentation.

A few years ago, the PowerPoint team took a bet on artificial intelligence (AI) and started the PowerPoint Designer effort. We aspired to help our customers overcome some of the fear around building an effective slide by offering up suggested slide designs. We started with making photo slides compelling, eventually adding capabilities around transforming text slides into their more visual—and hopefully impactful—counterparts like process diagrams and timelines. More recently, we started complementing text with iconography.

Today, we’re excited to share that not only have we hit a major milestone in PowerPoint Designer usage, we’re also announcing new Designer capabilities that suggests high quality content to jumpstart authoring and provides perspective suggestions for quantitative content. And yes, in a “but wait, there’s more” moment, we’re ready to share that our AI effort is moving beyond Designer—with our new Presenter Coach—intended to help our users build confidence in their presenting abilities.

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Every day Designer offers up millions of slide suggestions to PowerPoint users. When someone chooses to insert a design suggestion, we know we’ve provided them value. In fact, the adoption rate of these slides has grown astronomically over the last few years, and in April 2019, we reached a major milestone of 1 billion slides created with Designer since launch !

Building on our momentum, today we’re announcing several new capabilities in Designer that allow people in large enterprises, and small and medium-sized businesses, to use branded templates and support those who don’t have a branded template to get started quickly with theme ideas. These new capabilities are designed to help people make effective slides and presentations with minimal time and effort while staying in their creative flow.

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When working with branded templates, Design Ideas that people see are created directly from the layouts in the Slide Master, using the content on the user’s slides. Designer’s AI chooses the most suitable layouts for the content, intelligently crops images, and automatically recommends relevant icons and pictures. Organizations can design their templates for optimal Designer support, broadening the choices available to their users.

In today’s fast-paced work environments, people are pressed for time, and AI-powered features like Designer help people create visually engaging and immersive presentations with only a few clicks. Now users can get this streamlined experience while working with their organizations’ templates , using branded layouts instead of needing to improvise. Designer for branded templates is currently available to Office 365 Insiders subscribers for Windows 10 and Mac.

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For people who don’t have a branded template but want to get started quickly and easily, we’re introducing theme ideas in Designer. Now getting a presentation started is easier than ever. When you open a blank presentation and enter words onto the slide, Designer recommends a selection of new high quality photographs that reflect the slide text, along with theme styles and complementary colors. These photos are fully licensed for commercial use and are coupled with one of PowerPoint’s high quality themes and a corresponding color palette to easily create visually impactful presentations with minimal effort.

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Presenting data in slide decks can be challenging because people have difficulty conceptualizing large and unfamiliar measurements. Studies published by Microsoft Research have shown that adding relatable references for large numerical values makes information easier to understand and increases retention. That’s why we added this capability into PowerPoint Designer!

Thanks to an integration with Microsoft Research’s Perspective Engine, Designer can now recognize when a slide contains a large number that might be difficult to interpret and put into context by automatically augmenting the text with a corresponding perspective. With the additions of perspectives, Designer makes numerical slides more digestible and helps presenters effectively convey their information. For example: The size of Afghanistan, which is 652,232 km², is hard to interpret, but adding that it’s “about equal to the size of Texas” makes it easily understandable. These relative measurements are now automatically surfaced in Designer.

Designer perspectives is currently rolling out to Office 365 subscribers. Designer perspectives is currently available for English only.

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From classrooms to boardrooms, our belief is that everyone can improve how they present. Training and feedback help people gain confidence and empower them to achieve their personal and professional goals. Over the last few years, we’ve received feedback from educators, students, and customers that people want an easy way to practice their presentations to improve their public speaking abilities.

Today, we’re announcing the upcoming availability of Presenter Coach in PowerPoint. Presenting in front of a live audience is a vital life skill. Based on academic research and field studies, we’ve integrated presentation best practices into Presenter Coach to help people give more effective presentations.

This feature allows you to enter rehearsal mode and while speaking you receive on-screen guidance about pacing, inclusive language, use of filler words, and culturally insensitive phrases. It even lets you know when you’re just reading off the slide. At the end of each rehearsal session, a detailed report with metrics for additional practice is provided. Presenter Coach will be available on PowerPoint for the web later this summer.

We’re excited to release these new capabilities to our customers and look forward to your continued feedback to help us improve PowerPoint. Thanks for your help along our incredible journey.

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Creating a presentation that grabs attention and effectively communicates your message can be challenging. A well-designed presentation is key to engaging your audience and ensuring your message sticks.

This is where AI comes in, offering great solutions to streamline the presentation design process.

Using AI in your presentation design can save you tons of time. From generating fresh ideas to perfecting visuals, AI tools are your secret weapon. Let's dive into how AI can elevate your presentation design.

What is presentation design?

Presentation design involves organizing your content in a visually appealing way that makes it easy for your audience to follow along.

Presentation design is about enhancing communication, ensuring your message is clear, and keeping your audience engaged.

A well-designed presentation can make or break your pitch deck, social media marketing, or any form of communication where you need to persuade or inform.

Great presentation design blends content and visuals seamlessly, making complex ideas easy to understand and engaging. Let's explore some practical design tips and AI tools to help you create compelling presentations.

1. Harmonize your colors for maximum impact

A cohesive color scheme ties your presentation together and makes it look professional. Choosing the right colors can be daunting, but it’s crucial for a polished look.

When your colors are in harmony, your audience can focus on your message without being distracted by clashing hues.

Design tip: Use color theory to create harmonious palettes

Color theory can help you understand which colors work well together. Complementary colors (opposites on the color wheel) create vibrant looks, while analogous colors (next to each other on the color wheel) provide a more relaxed and cohesive appearance.

A consistent color scheme not only reinforces your branding but also makes your presentation more memorable. So remember:

• Stick to a limited color palette : Choose 2-3 main colors and 1-2 accent colors.
• Use contrast wisely : Ensure there’s enough contrast between text and background for readability.
• Test your colors : Check how your colors look on different screens and projectors.

AI tip: Leverage AI-powered color palettes

Tools like Coolors and Adobe Color use AI to generate harmonious color palettes. Simply input your primary color or a theme, and these tools will suggest the best combinations. This eliminates guesswork and ensures your presentation looks cohesive and polished.

AI-powered tools to help with color palettes

• Khroma : It uses AI to learn which colors you like and creates limitless palettes for you
• Palettemaker: It uses AI to create unique color schemes ‍
• Muzli Color Combination Generator : Helps create palettes that are visually appealing and suitable for various themes.

Using these tools can also inspire your overall design. Sometimes, seeing a new color combination can spark presentation design ideas you hadn't considered before, leading to a more creative and engaging presentation slide.

2. Make data delightful and digestible

Presenting data in a clear and understandable way is crucial. Overwhelming your audience with complicated charts and graphs can detract from your message. AI can help make your data look clean and professional, transforming numbers into visual stories that resonate.

Design tip: choose the right type of chart or graph

The type of chart or graph you use can significantly impact how your data is understood. Bar charts are great for comparisons in real time, line charts for trends over time, and pie charts for proportions. Ensure your data is simple and focused on the key points you want to convey.

Here's how you can easily present your data effectively:

• Use clear labels and legends : Make sure every element is clearly labeled.
• Avoid clutter : Simplify your charts and graphs to focus on the most important data.
• Highlight key data points : Use color or bold fonts to emphasize important informa

AI tip: Use AI-driven tools for charts and graphs

AI-powered tools can transform complex data into visually appealing charts and graphs. They automatically select the best type for your data, making it easy for your audience to grasp key insights.

Simplifying data helps your audience stay focused and engaged, allowing them to quickly understand the important points you're making.

AI-driven tools for charts and graphs:

• ChartMaster AI : Transforms complex data into clear, impactful visuals.
• Julias AI : Makes beautiful graphs instantly with AI.
• Venngage : Effortlessly prompt, create, and tailor charts that turn raw data into clear, compelling visuals.

Instead of manually creating charts and graphs, you can focus on crafting your narrative and refining your presentation skills. This makes the overall process of creating a PowerPoint presentation more efficient and enjoyable.

3. Craft compelling copy with a clear structure

Crafting engaging content can be challenging, especially when you're staring at a blank slide. AI tools can help spark your creativity and ensure your content is compelling and concise. Your slides should tell a story, guiding your audience through your message effortlessly.

Design tip: use a clear and logical structure

Organize your content in a way that flows naturally. Start with an introduction that outlines what you will cover, follow with the main content divided into clear sections, and end with a strong conclusion. Use bullet points, numbered lists, and headers to break up text and make it easier to follow.

Here are some tips for crafting compelling content:

• Keep it simple : Focus on one main idea per slide.
• Use bullet points : Break down information into digestible chunks.
• Tell a story : Frame your content in a narrative that guides your audience.

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AI tip: Get content ideas from AI

Creatives have no shortage of AI tools for quickly creating quality copy for your presentation. Even better, you can test all of them to see which creates the best content the quickest.

AI copy tools:

• Copy.ai : Free resource for turning your ideas into presentation points.
• Jasper AI : A library of writing tools that can help improve your presentation copy.
• Claude AI : Provides AI-driven content suggestions for various needs.

These tools can also help you refine your message by suggesting alternative phrasing or highlighting key points you might have missed.

4. Enhance your slides with high-quality visuals

Visuals are a powerful way to enhance your slides. But finding the right images can be time-consuming. AI can generate unique visuals tailored to your content, making your slides stand out. Imagine having a custom image that perfectly complements your message without spending hours searching for it.

Design tip: Use relevant and high-quality images

Choose images that complement your content and enhance your message. Avoid generic stock photos that don't add value. Instead, select images that are relevant and high-quality. This ensures your slides are visually engaging and relevant.

Here are some tips for using visuals effectively:

• Use high-resolution images : Ensure your images are clear and not pixelated.
• Keep it relevant : Choose images that directly relate to your content.
• Avoid clutter : Don’t overload slides with too many visuals.

AI-tip: Use AI stock photos and AI-generated images

Once again, you have a buffet of options for either generating or finding quality AI-generated images. The beauty of these tools is that you have the choice of creating unique content, or finding exactly what you need in a curated AI stock image library.

AI tools for visuals:

• Lummi : Tens of thousands of free AI-generated stock photos.
• DALL-E : Generates images from textual descriptions.
• Midjourney : Creates detailed visuals based on your inputs.

AI-generated images can make your presentation more memorable and impactful. Instead of using generic stock photos, you can have custom visuals that perfectly match your content.

5. Make your presentation inclusive for all

Ensuring your presentation is inclusive and user-friendly is important. AI tools can help you identify and fix issues, making your content accessible to all.

This is about making sure everyone in your audience can engage with your presentation.

Design tip: Use best practices for inclusive design

Ensure your presentation is accessible by using clear fonts, sufficient contrast, and descriptive text for images. This makes your content easier to read and understand for everyone.

Here are some tips for making your presentation inclusive:

• Use large, readable fonts : Ensure text is legible from a distance.
• Provide captions for videos : Make sure video content is accessible.
• Make sure to optimize colors : Follow WCAG and APCA guidelines.

AI Tip: Make sure your designs are accessible with AI

Leverage tools to make sure that everyone has a chance to participate with your presentation. These tools identify issues with color contrast, font size, and screen reader compatibility.

AI-driven tools to make your presentation inclusive:

• Design.ai color checker : Ensures that your colors are optimized for inclusive design.
• accessiBe : A variety of tools for accessibilty testing.

Making your presentation inclusive ensures that all audience members, regardless of their abilities, can engage with your content.

6. Understand your audience to tailor your presentation

Understanding your audience is key to creating a presentation that resonates. Knowing who you're talking to allows you to tailor your content to their preferences and needs, ensuring maximum engagement. This leads to higher engagement and better outcomes, whether you're delivering a pitch deck, a marketing strategy, or a social media update.

General tip: Research your audience

Take the time to learn about your audience's demographics, interests, and needs. This will help you tailor your presentation design to their expectations.

Here are some tips for understanding your audience:

• Conduct surveys : Gather information about your audience before the presentation.
• Analyze past presentations : Look at feedback from previous presentations to identify what worked and what didn’t.
• Engage with your audience : Ask questions and interact with your audience during the presentation.

AI Tip: Analyze audience preferences

Tools like Crystal Knows or Acrolinx use AI to analyze your audience's communication style and preferences. They provide insights into what types of content and tone will be most effective for your specific audience.

This ensures your presentation is tailored to engage your audience effectively, making your message more impactful.

AI tools to analyze your audience:

• ChatGPT : It can give you quick insights and ideas for your designs.
• Fillout survey maker : Import or create surveys in seconds with the first AI Survey Maker.

By understanding your audience better, you can create presentations that speak directly to them.

7. Use presentation generators to speed up your workflow

Creating a presentation involves many repetitive tasks, from formatting slides to updating data. Automating these tasks can save you time and allow you to focus on the creative aspects of your presentation design.

To make creating your presentations as seamless as possible, here are a list of a few of our favorite AI-powered presentation makers:

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Embrace the future of presentation design

By using AI in your presentation design process, you can transform your slides from a good presentation to a great one.

Plus, with these presentation design tips will help you create presentations or slide decks that captivate your audience and communicate your message effectively.

Next time you're working on a presentation, try out these AI-powered presentation design ideas. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned pro, these tools can help you take your presentations to the next level.

More FAQs about presentation tips

1. what are some presentation design inspiration sources.

You can find presentation design inspiration from various sources like design blogs, Pinterest, Behance, and Dribbble. Additionally, looking at TED Talks and popular keynote presentations can provide ideas on how to structure and design your slides.

2. How can AI improve my marketing strategy with presentations?

AI can help streamline the creation of marketing presentations by suggesting design elements, creating visuals, and optimizing content for audience engagement.

This ensures your marketing strategy is effectively communicated and visually appealing.

3. What is the importance of white space in presentation design?

White space, or negative space, is crucial in presentation design as it prevents your slides from looking cluttered. It helps guide the audience’s focus on the main design elements that matter most.

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People ask me every day whether it’s okay to use artificial intelligence to write a speech or presentation. The answer, like most communication itself, is not black and white but rather filled with nuance and dependent on context. Here are some of the most critical pros and cons to consider.

• AI can help you organize your thoughts into a coherent structure using effective speechwriting models. This gives you a solid framework for your speech. Many people have a hard time organizing their thoughts into the right structure with the necessary arcs, but AI will do that automatically. This certainly doesn’t guarantee a great speech, but it’s a start.

• It’s clear. AI does a good job of providing key points that are easy to follow, and it doesn’t meander or get lost in the details. Not to mention the fact that AI has very good grammar and syntax.

• Because AI is so quick, you can input multiple prompts with slight variations. This gives you several results to choose from, or you can even mix and match.

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• AI doesn’t know how to relate to your audience like you do or how to tailor your speech to their mindset. You can describe the audience in your prompt, but AI won’t necessarily know their specific desires and concerns—it can’t get into their heads. And it is often oblivious to the cultural context or zeitgeist of the time. Without this understanding, a speech cannot inspire. Any good speech moves both hearts and minds, and since AI cannot manage the nuance of human emotions, you will often need to personalize the entire speech and make sure it conveys your true intention.

• AI-generated content can be detected. This can be done through AI content detectors or by someone simply inputting various prompts into a generative AI tool and comparing the results to your remarks. The last thing you want to do is attach your name to something important only for people to find out it was from Gemini or ChatGPT. That can damage your credibility well into the future. Remember, audiences pride themselves on having good authenticity meters.

• The strategy of the presentation may have flaws. In addition to composition mistakes (e.g., redundant words and sentences) or inaccurate information, AI can omit key ideas or approaches, leaving gaping holes in the case you are building. So you’ll need to double-check the progression of the speech. Once you’ve done that, check it again.

How AI Affects Your Delivery

When you take an active role in writing a speech, you own it. There is a neurological process that embeds the words and phrases of the presentation into your brain as you write or type. That means the words stay with you to a certain extent. When a speech is written for you—either by AI or another human—you skip that step, which can make it harder to deliver unless you add extra rehearsal time.

A colleague in the tech industry once tried an experiment with an AI speech delivery coaching program: First, he recorded a presentation as he would normally deliver it—in a conversational tone. He then recorded another version after getting coaching from the AI program. It gave him solid, common-sense feedback on pacing, tone and body language, but the words remained exactly the same.

He then asked 30 co-workers to rate both performances on perceived authenticity, engagement, value and overall effectiveness. The recording coached by AI scored 16% lower. Why? It was stilted. The feedback metrics used by AI are generic—valid in some cases, but not a good fit for every speaker or every audience.

After all, AI still cannot talk like humans. So expecting it to coach us on speaking effectively is like expecting a world-class cyclist to improve their performance while using training wheels.

On the other hand, if you get feedback from a trusted colleague or good speaking coach, you can discuss audience needs, expectations and how they might receive your presentation. And you can make sure the presentation looks and feels authentically you.

In the final analysis, remember that communication serves to connect people on the most human level. This can be aided by AI, but cannot be accomplished by AI alone (at least not yet). No technology to date can replace the depth or subtle aspects of shared human experience.

So use AI to brainstorm and get a jump-start on your project. Then add the most important ingredient: human intelligence.

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In this guide, we’ll explore everything you need to seamlessly incorporate Gemini AI into your workflow. Whether you’re looking to enhance your design elements, streamline content generation, or simply save yourself some time, Gemini AI offers a suite of features that can transform the way you build your presentations.

As with the integrations for Docs and Sheets, Gemini AI is not available for use with Slides at the free tier. You’ll need a $20/month subscription to the  Google One AI Premium Plan to gain access; otherwise, a work or school account through a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on will work.

Simply click on the “Try  Gemini Advanced !” radio button in the top-right corner of the Gemini home screen and follow the prompts.

To begin, open a new or existing Slides presentation, then click the Ask Gemini button in the top-right corner of the screen (to the right of the share button). This will expand the Gemini AI sidebar running down the right side length of the screen. On the sidebar, you’ll be able to either enter your idea directly into the prompt window or take inspiration from the AI-generated image slideshow at the bottom of the screen.

Primarily, Gemini AI can create images, generate new slides, summarize a presentation, and write and rewrite content. It can also reference Drive files or Gmail as you write, as well as search the internet for current information and statistics to answer questions that arise while you write. Basically, it works as a writing and research aide, same as it does for Docs.

Gemini takes the grunt work out of the slide creation process and accelerates my workflow to a startling degree. While I’ve watched countless slideshows as a journalist (on earnings calls, product demos, keynote events, and the like), I’ve been lucky enough to not have had to make one myself in well over a decade. Suffice to say, actually producing a professional-looking slide deck these days takes me ages to accomplish, what with all the bullet points, image sourcing, thematic formatting, and whathaveyou.

But with the help of Gemini, I was able to pop out a solid eight-slide introduction to the Seattle, Washington, region that discusses the city’s main attractions, the state of its housing market (both sales and rentals), its education and health care systems, and reasons why folks should move to the region — all using simple prompts like, “add a slide discussing the education system in Seattle, the number of primary schools in the Seattle area, and Washington’s average education ranking among U.S. states.” I did all of that in under 10 minutes.

There were a few limitations to what Gemini could help me with, mind you. I repeatedly asked it to incorporate motion transitions between each slide ( because who doesn’t love a good star wipe ?); however, the system kept generating slides discussing transitions as a subject topic instead. I ultimately had to add those effects by hand.

Also, if I were actually giving this presentation in public, I’d have to spend a good amount of time going back through and confirming the veracity of each of the bullet points to ensure the system didn’t hallucinate anything, but without the AI, just creating this deck by hand would have taken me a couple of miserable hours at least.

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Creating Custom Themes for PowerPoint and Google Slides

In any visual communication medium, first impressions are crucial. In the presentation niche, the aesthetics of a slide deck often sets the tone before a single word is spoken, making it essential to work with a polished and professional appearance. On this behalf, PowerPoint templates and Google Slides templates are excellent tools to help designers convey their message in designer-approved slide layouts. Yet, one problem arises from this: having too many similar slide decks. 

Rather than panicking or outsourcing graphic design services to create unique results, we invite you to discover how to create custom themes for any PowerPoint and Google Slides presentation. From basics to advanced techniques, this guide will help you master the tools at your disposal and create unique slide decks. 

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What Is a Presentation Theme?

Benefits of custom themes for business presentations, the role of fonts, colors, and layouts, differences between powerpoint and google slides themes, accessing the slide master, customizing colors, setting up fonts, designing layouts, saving and applying custom slides in powerpoint, accessing the master slide, customizing theme colors, choosing and setting fonts, creating and modifying layouts, saving and reusing custom slides in google slides, incorporating logos and branding elements, using graphics and backgrounds, animation and transition customizations, ensuring accessibility in themes.

When discussing presentation software, we refer to a theme as a collection of design elements defining your presentation slides’ overall look and feel. Themes typically include a coordinated set of colors, fonts, slide layouts, background styles, and effects. These elements work together to ensure design consistency throughout the slide deck, helping the audience understand the presentation much faster.

Consistency and Professionalism

One of the primary benefits of working with custom themes in business presentations is maintaining brand consistency. A well-designed custom theme ensures that every slide adheres to your company’s brand guidelines, including colors, fonts, logos, and overall design aesthetic. This implies that your brand identity is consistently represented, which is especially important for targeting potential customers or investors, helping build brand awareness.

Communication and Flexibility

Not all pre-made templates offer the complete set of tools we need for a specific presentation type. Sometimes, we have to mix and match slides from templates to create that much-needed slide deck. If, on the other hand, we take the time to tailor a theme to include all the tools we require with the same aesthetic, the end result will look natural.

As a result of the previous point, custom slides give us the adaptability to accommodate a slide deck for multiple purposes depending on the topic and the audience, all this while ensuring that it aligns with your company’s core values.

Consistency Across Teams

A common mistake large organizations make is lacking common ground for visual communication standards. In-team meetings are done with any kind of template, so if we intend to repurpose the content for an external meeting, the slides must be created practically from scratch, as the content from one team doesn’t match others.

By implementing a custom theme, you standardize the presentation process across your organization. This ensures that every presentation, whether created by financials, HR, marketing, or operations, adheres to the same visual guidelines.

The choice of fonts, colors, and layout schemes in presentation themes is not accidental. Each element plays a vital role in shaping the presentation’s identity.

Fonts contribute to readability and mood. When we think about a business or formal presentation, a combination of serif and sans-serif typefaces immediately comes to mind. Sans serif fonts give a clean and modern aesthetic, while serif fonts speak of traditionalism. 

Consistent use of fonts is fundamental in any slide deck. To avoid amateurish results, stick to a maximum of 3 fonts (or variations of the same). You can learn more in our guide on fonts for presentations .

Colors evoke emotions. An incorrect color palette can distract your audience from the content you intend to share, whereas a well-chosen color palette helps to convey the message more effectively. 

We created a very detailed guide on color theory for presentations . In it, you can learn about the emotions that colors can transmit, how to pair colors and plenty of other useful content to customize the color in your presentation themes. 

Think of layouts as the skeleton of your slides. They ensure the content is structured, making it easier for the audience to process the information. 

Multiple design rules guide presentation layouts, such as the rule of thirds, the golden ratio, the grid system, working with negative space, and the Z-pattern and F-pattern layouts.

Although both presentation design tools are excellent for creating custom themes, there are some differences in the management and creation of themes for each platform:

• Flexibility : PowerPoint offers extensive customization options compared to Google Slides, especially in shapes, transitions, animation effects, and shadows. Custom gradients, advanced typography settings, and other interesting tools are unavailable to Google Slides users.
• User Interface : Although Google Slides lacks the full range of tools of PowerPoint’s Slide Master function, it is more user-friendly for customizing slides. PowerPoint’s Slide Master allows advanced users granular control over every aspect of the theme, but it can be challenging for newcomers.
• Cross-Platform Compatibility : Compatibility issues are well-known when migrating presentation slides from PowerPoint to Google Slides or Keynote. This is present when the slides contain complex shadow effects, animation effects that are only PowerPoint available, or if the illustrations contain curved texts. Although they can be “fixed,” the results are nowhere near as neat as PowerPoint can offer.

Therefore, presenters must consider these aspects when picking their preferred design tool and invest time and effort into creating custom presentation themes.

Creating Custom Themes in PowerPoint

Locating Slide Master is the first element you must learn to create a custom theme in PowerPoint. This tool controls the slide layout elements for different kinds of pre-established slides, which means you can add footers, branding elements, page numbers, graphic effects, etc.

Follow our guide on how to work with Slide Master for PowerPoint for more detailed information.

Now that we know where some of the elements of a PPT template are located, it’s time to discuss customizing the colors for our slides. This can be done in two ways: customizing color element by element or changing the color theme.

Select any element you want to recolorize and go to the Shape Format tab. You can use Shape Styles , or work your way with Shape Fill and Shape Outline . 

On the other hand, if you want to alter the entire color theme, which is a much faster procedure as it affects all slides alike, check our guide on how to use theme colors in PowerPoint .

As with the colors, you have two methods for editing the fonts in your PowerPoint theme. The first method is done inside Slide Master; you need to access Fonts and click on Customize Fonts .

This will open up a font customization dialog to select the preferred fonts for headings and body text.

The second way is to manually edit the fonts by selecting each text element and changing the font. It’s more time-consuming, but it may be the method that works best when we only need to alter certain text elements in the slide deck.

Keep in mind the compatibility issues if you work with non-common fonts. Since fonts are only displayed if installed on the streamer PC, keep a copy of your font families used or stick to pre-installed fonts.

Presenters can alter the existing layouts by entering Slide Master and repositioning placeholders, changing their sizes, or adding new placeholder elements (text, image, chart, etc.). The changes will be reflected on all slides that use this same layout.

Alternatively, we can create new layouts by selecting Insert Layout in Slide Master. This newly generated layout works as a blank canvas to which you can add whichever elements you prefer.

Say you created a PowerPoint custom template with all the elements that adapt to your presentation style and requirements. Now, it’s time to save it for backup purposes or to share it with your organization. First of all, inside Slide Master, select Close Master View to exit the Slide Master mode.

Next, switch to the Design tab and click on More in the Themes group. Select the option Save Current Theme . Give your created theme a name and save it to the default location (important!) to make it easy to access it for future presentations. 

A quick tip to export a copy of your created theme is to repeat the steps to save the theme after Save Current Theme but instead of overwriting the file, right-click on it and select Copy .

Now go to your desired backup folder location, right-click inside it, and select Paste . A copy of the original PowerPoint theme will be stored.

Creating Custom Themes in Google Slides

Google Slides’ version of PowerPoint Slide Master is quite simplified in terms of tools and user interface; it is known as Master Slide, and it can be easily accessed from Slide > Edit Theme . 

Check our article on how to edit master slide in Google Slides for further information.

Theme colors in Google Slides are managed at the theme level and can be edited from the Master view. Click on Color in the toolbar available in the Master view, and this will open the Theme Colors panel, where we can customize the colors used for text, background, accents, and links.

Google Slides allows us to modify the colors by clicking on the color box next to each element. This can be done by using color picking, selecting a color from the provided color palette, or adding a HEX code. Since the Master slide contains all the information for the slide deck, changes will be made globally once saved. If you need to edit an individual element, you can select it from the slide containing it and change the colors.

Font customization in Google Slides is pretty much similar to PowerPoint as it’s managed from the Master view. The main advantage here is Google Slides’ integration with Google Fonts. This means that you don’t have to worry about compatibility issues in your presentation. 

The font compatibility issues do not apply if you work with third-party extensions. In that case, you have to double-check if the recipient’s computer has that extension linked to the account to be used; otherwise, they won’t display.

Learn more about how to add fonts to Google Slide with our article.

You can create or modify existing layouts in the same fashion as you did with PowerPoint. Access the Master view, select any layout slide, and edit its content. 

If you need to create a brand new layout, click on the layout above the one you need to create and use the CTRL+M shortcut.

Since Google Slides doesn’t include a “Save Theme” option, the customized theme becomes part of a specific presentation. This means you have to make a copy of the presentation to reuse it or go to the Import Theme option to select a theme from a previous presentation or a slide deck you uploaded.

Learn our article on how to import Google Slides themes to master this procedure.

Advanced Customization Techniques

We have already explored the basics of creating a custom theme in PowerPoint and Google Slides. However, some advanced techniques can give you an extra edge, making your slides look more professional and boosting your brand identity.

A must-have for any professional presentation is to count on branding elements, such as logo and branding colors. Follow the steps mentioned above to apply your brand’s color palette to your custom presentation theme – and, as a tip, it’s best to stick with HEX values for assigning colors so you won’t have mismatches. 

Check out these articles for further reference on how to work with branding elements.

• How to create a logo presentation
• How to make a branded presentation
• How to present your brand identity

You can add custom backgrounds, like patterns created in Adobe Illustrator, by right-clicking on the slide in Slide Master and select Format Background . PowerPoint allows you to use solid colors, gradients, textures, and images as backgrounds. 

In case you work with Google Slides, the procedure is almost the same: selecting the Background option in the toolbar shown in Master view, or access it for a single slide as shown below. The possibilities are limited compared to PowerPoint, especially regarding complex gradients and shadow effects, so keep it simple.

Remember to work with images or textures that won’t pixelate on your slide. As a reference, always opt for 1920×1080 px when in doubt, but use optimized files to avoid making heavy-sized presentation files.

The two presentation software options we managed in this article offer significantly different animation and transition options. The first is PowerPoint, which has a more extensive offering and complex effects. Access the Transitions tab to add transitions to your slides or the Animations tab to add animated effects to make an entrance, add emphasis, or an exit animation for your slides.

Google Slides offers a limited selection of effects available via Insert>Animation or Slide>Transition .

Check the following articles for in-detail information about both animations and transitions:

• How to Animate on Google Slides
• How to Create PowerPoint Animations
• How to Remove Animations from PowerPoint and Google Slides
• How to Add Transitions in PowerPoint

Accessibility in presentations is a key element we must consider when designing custom themes. We can identify three main points that presenters ought to check:

• Color Contrast : There must be sufficient contrast between the text and background color, as otherwise, it compromises readability (especially for individuals with visual impairments). 
• Font Size : Choose a font large enough to be read easily from a distance. Typically, we use a minimum of 16 pt for body text. As we mentioned above, avoid using script or overly-decorated fonts. 
• Alt Text for Images : Alt text is not limited to SEO purposes. In presentations, using alt text can help people with visual impairments understand your slides as screen readers go through alt text.

Let’s take, for example, a well-known case in mass media content: Netflix. If we think about Netflix, we immediately associate its branding identity with the sans-serif caps logo and a red-and-black contrasting color scheme. The rest of its user interface works with the same sans-serif font in two weight options (bold and regular), using different sizes to distinguish between headings and body copy.

From an accessibility point of view, the Netflix website’s contrast ratio is 4.8:1, and according to WebAIM , text and text images ought to have at least a 4.5:1 contrast ratio. Regarding text, they use a 48px sans serif bold font for the headings and a 24px sans serif regular font for the body text: a 2:1 ratio.

Applying these rules to a presentation slide, here’s a fine example of what an accessible slide looks like.

Creating custom PowerPoint and Google Slides themes is a powerful way to ensure your presentations are visually consistent, professional, and aligned with your brand identity. By understanding the key elements of a theme—such as colors, fonts, and layouts—and how to customize them in each platform, you can create polished presentations that effectively communicate your message.

Remember that consistency is the key to a successful presentation theme. By adhering to best practices in design and accessibility, testing your themes across different platforms and devices, and keeping your design elements simple yet impactful, you can create presentations that resonate with your audience and elevate your brand.

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How to Cite Sources in Presentations: A Detailed Guide

Learn how to cite sources in presentations accurately to enhance credibility and engage your audience effectively.

Understanding the Importance of Citing Sources

Choosing the right citation style.

• APA (American Psychological Association) : Often used in the social sciences.
• MLA (Modern Language Association) : Common in humanities.
• Chicago/Turabian Style : Frequently used in business, history, and fine arts.
• IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) : Preferred in technical fields.

How to Cite Sources in the Slide Content

• "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." - Steve Jobs (Apple Inc.)
• According to research by Harvard Business Review, innovative companies outperform the market average by 45%.
• 75% of marketers saw an increase in engagement through targeted emails. (Source: Mailchimp, 2023)

Incorporating Citations Visually

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Best Practices for Citing Sources in Presentations

• Be Consistent: Use the same citation style throughout your presentation.
• Keep it Readable: Make sure that citations do not clutter your slides. Keep them brief and to the point.
• Verify Sources: Always double-check the credibility of your sources before including them in your presentation.
• Practice Ethical Citing: Always give credit where it's due, even for images, videos, and music.

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How to Save Images from Google Slides

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Need to reuse an image from your Google Slides presentation, but can’t find it on your computer? Don’t worry, there are a few ways to save the image directly from your Slides document.

This guide will explain five simple methods for extracting images from your Google Slides presentation. This way, you can easily grab the image you need for another project.

How to Save an Image from Google Slides?  

Method 1: copying the image on a new slide.

This method allows you to download a specific image from your presentation and save it as a standalone image file.

1. Open the Source Slide: Navigate to the slide containing the image you want to download.

2. Select the Image: Click on the image to highlight it.

3. Copy the Image: Right-click on the image and choose “Copy” from the menu.

4. Create a New Slide for the Image: Click “Insert” in the menu bar and select “New Slide.”

5. Paste and Adjust the Image: Click anywhere on the new slide and right-click to choose “Paste.” Resize and center the image using the drag handles. If the image quality allows, you can stretch it to fill the slide. Otherwise, keep it at its original size.

6. Download as Image: Click “File” in the menu bar, then hover over “Download” and choose your preferred image format (e.g., JPEG, PNG).

7. Optional Cropping: After downloading, you can crop the image further using image editing software (not included in this method).

Method 2: Save Images from Google Slides Using Google Keep

1. Locate the Image: Open the Google Slides presentation containing the image you want to save.

2. Select the Image: Click on the image you want to download to your computer.

3. Save to Keep: Right-click on the selected image. From the menu, choose “Save to Keep.” Google Keep will create a new note with the image automatically added.

4. Save Image to Computer: Within the Keep note, right-click on the saved image. Select “Save image as…” and choose the desired location on your computer to save the downloaded image.

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Method 3: Downloading Images from Google Slides with Google Docs

1. Open the Source Presentation: Locate and open the Google Slides presentation containing the image you want to download.

2. Select the Image: Navigate to the slide with the desired image and click on it to select it.

3. Copy the Image: Right-click the selected image and choose “Copy” from the menu.

4. Paste Into a New Document: Open a new Google Doc or an existing one where you want the image saved. Right-click anywhere in the document and select “Paste.”

5. Download as Webpage (HTML, Zipped): Go to “File” in the top menu and select “Download.” Choose “Web page (HTML, zipped)” as the download format. This creates a ZIP file containing the document and all images as separate files.

6. Extract the Image Files: Locate the downloaded ZIP file on your computer and extract it using your preferred method. Your desired image will be among the extracted files.

Method 4: Downloading Images with Google Chat

1. Open Your Presentation: Locate and open the Google Slides presentation containing the image you want to save.

2. Select the Image: Navigate to the slide with the image and click on it to select it.

3. Copy the Image: Right-click on the selected image and choose “Copy” from the menu.

4. Open Google Chat: Launch the Google Chat application. You can open an existing chat or create a new chat window for this purpose.

5. Paste and Save the Image: Click inside the chat window and paste the image (usually with Ctrl+V or Cmd+V). Once the image appears, right-click on it and select “Save Image As…” from the menu. Choose a location on your computer to save the downloaded image.

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Method 5: Saving an Image with a Screenshot

On Windows:

1. Open the Slide: Locate and open the Google Slide containing the image you want to capture.

2. Capture the Screen (Snipping Tool): Press the “PrtScr” key on your keyboard. This will launch the Snipping Tool.

3. Select the Image Area: Use the Snipping Tool to select the specific area of the image you want to save.

4. Save the Screenshot: Once you’ve selected the area, open the captured image (it might open automatically). Right-click on the image and choose “Save Image As…”. Select a desired location on your computer to save the image.

1. Open the Slide: Locate the slide containing the image you want to capture in Google Slides.

2. Capture the Screen: Press “Shift-Command-5” on your keyboard. This will open the screenshot tools menu.

3. Capture the Image: Choose the “Capture Selected Portion” option (it might look like a crosshair icon). Drag your mouse to select the specific area of the image you want to save.

4. Locate the Screenshot: Once you are done, the screenshot will be saved by default to your Desktop. You can find it with the filename format “Screen shot [date and time]” followed by “.png”.

Closing Thoughts

With these five methods at your disposal, you can easily extract any image from your Google Slides presentations whenever you need them for other projects. Whether you prefer a quick screenshot or a high-quality download, there’s a method here that suits your needs. Remember, choosing the right method depends on the desired image quality and your comfort level with different tools.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

How can i save an image on the google slides mobile app.

There’s no built-in “save image” function, but you can use Google Keep as a handy trick. Here’s how:

• Copy the image you want from your Google Slides presentation.
• Open the Google Keep app and create a new note or open an existing one.
• Paste the copied image into your Keep note.
• Right-click (or tap and hold) the image in Keep and choose “Save image” or “Download image” to save it to your device.

Does saving the image through Keep affect its quality?

It’s a possibility. Google Keep might compress the image slightly to save storage space.

Can I save the entire slide instead of just the image?

Absolutely! Google Slides lets you download the whole slide as an image file. This might not be ideal if you only need a specific image, though.

Can I use an image editing app to save the image?

You got it! Copy the image from the slide and paste it into an image editing app like Paint or GIMP. Then, simply use “Save As” to save it on your device.

Is there a way to save each slide as a separate image file?

Yes! Go to “File” > “Download” > “Publish to the web”. Choose the image format you want (JPEG works well) and publish. This will create a folder containing all your slides as individual image files.

Are there add-ons for Google Slides that help save images?

While there might be some third-party add-ons, be cautious! Make sure you research any add-on thoroughly before installing it. You want to be sure it’s from a reputable source and won’t harm your Google Slides security.

Can I just right-click and save an image from Google Slides?

Not quite yet. Unfortunately, Google Slides doesn’t currently have a right-click “Save Image As” option for individual images within a slide.

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