Roadmap, security and documentation changes captured for PowerPoint.
<p>When you open a presentation you don't have permission to edit, PowerPoint now shows a clear "Viewing Only" message bar. It explains that the file is view-only, shows who created it, and tells you to contact the owner if you need more access.</p>
<p>When you present with Presenter View, the controls you need should be easy to find at a glance. Presenter View in PowerPoint for Mac has a refreshed design: presenter tools, slide navigation, and the timer now sit together in one control bar, with updated icons and slide thumbnails. You can also collapse the thumbnail pane and the Next Slide and Notes pane to focus on what matters most as you present.</p>
<p>When you present in Slide Show on just one display, like a laptop with no second monitor and no Presenter View, the on-screen presenting controls can be easy to miss. PowerPoint is making single-screen presenting easier: the controls you need to move through your slides and stay in command are more discoverable and useful, helping you present smoothly and confidently without a second screen.</p>
<p>Change slide size in PowerPoint from a modern task pane that keeps you in the flow of editing with real-time slide changes. Choose common slide sizes including new social media presets, or customize dimensions with a cleaner, more approachable experience.</p>
<p>Change slide size in PowerPoint from a modern task pane that keeps you in the flow of editing with real-time slide changes. Choose common slide sizes including new social media presets, or customize dimensions with a cleaner, more approachable experience.</p>
<p>Enable users to leave PowerPoint, switch devices, go offline, or end their workday while remaining confident that Copilot will notify them when work is complete or requires attention.</p>
<p>Upload skill (.md file) in Brand Kit and use within PPT Copilot</p>
<p>Enable users to leave PowerPoint, switch devices, go offline, or end their workday while remaining confident that Copilot will notify them when work is complete or requires attention.</p>
<p>Enable users to leave PowerPoint, switch devices, go offline, or end their workday while remaining confident that Copilot will notify them when work is complete or requires attention.</p>
<p>Copilot in PowerPoint helps you create, edit, and refine presentations through natural language—right inside your deck. Start a new presentation or build on an existing one by asking Copilot to generate slides, update content, improve layouts, and polish design, all while preserving your formatting, structure, and branding. Copilot can also connect to your brand kit to apply branded templates, insert brand-approved images, and check for brand compliance. Available to Microsoft 365 Copilot (Premium) users.</p>
<p>Seamlessly access your brand colors, images, icons, logos and more right within PowerPoint to create on-brand presentations.</p>
<p>Copilot in PowerPoint lets you create, edit, and refine presentations through natural conversation, directly in your presentation. You can start a new presentation or build on an existing one, asking Copilot to generate slides, update content, improve layouts, and polish design—while preserving formatting, structure, and branding. Copilot uses your files, meetings, emails, and more to help shape content and iterate quickly, and it connects to your brand kit so you can apply branded templates, insert brand approved images, and check for brand compliance. Available to Microsoft 365 Copilot–licensed users.</p>
<p>In Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, the ‘Prevent some connected experiences that analyze content’ label setting now prevents files in these apps from being sent to all Microsoft connected experiences for analysis, rather than a subset of these connected experiences.</p>
You can now create a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint straight from the PowerPoint Home in file menu.
You can now create a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint just as you open the PowerPoint web app.
You can now choose your preferred image model including OpenAI’s GPT Image, Flux, or Auto for smart, dynamic selection when creating or editing images with Copilot in PowerPoint, or when generating a new presentation or page.
When create or edit a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint, you can now select which model to use, including both Open AI and Anthropic models. Available to Microsoft 365 Copilot–licensed users.
<p>You can now reference files saved in SharePoint libraries and OneDrive folders when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint.</p>
Copilot in PowerPoint lets you create, edit, and refine presentations through natural conversation, directly in your presentation. You can start a new presentation or build on an existing one, asking Copilot to generate slides, update content, improve layouts, and polish design—while preserving formatting, structure, and branding. Available to Copilot Chat users (without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license).
This feature enhances the PowerPoint Live meeting experience by using Copilot to let attendees select slide text and get explanations for the content.
When creating a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint using Agent Mode, you can reference an existing PowerPoint file, so Copilot applies its theme and styles to the new deck, keeping the design consistent. Updated June 5, 2026: This feature is still in development and will begin rolling out mid-June 2026. We apologize for the inconvenience.
The Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policy to restrict Microsoft 365 Copilot processing sensitive files in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will now apply regardless of file storage location.
Copilot in PowerPoint lets you create, edit, and refine presentations through natural conversation, directly in your presentation. You can start a new presentation or build on an existing one, asking Copilot to generate slides, update content, improve layouts, and polish design—while preserving formatting, structure, and branding. Copilot connects to your brand kit so you can apply branded templates, insert brand‑approved images, and check for brand compliance. Available to Microsoft 365 Copilot–licensed users.
Generate an Executive Summary slide for your presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint. Copilot delivers a polished draft that highlights your key points and provides a clear, executive ready summary.
You can now reference webpages when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint.
You can now reference the content of a PowerPoint file when creating a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint using Agent Mode.
<p>You can now reference an email with Work IQ when using Edit with Copilot in PowerPoint to create a presentation.</p>
<p>You can now reference an image when creating a presentation with Copilot using Agent Mode in PowerPoint.</p>
You can now reference a Teams meeting or chat when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint.
You can now reference an image when creating a presentation with Copilot using Agent Mode in PowerPoint.
Now with Agent Mode in Copilot in PowerPoint, you can create presentations based on your Work IQ. Build rich presentations without the heavy lift of finding all the right files, meetings, and emails to compose relevant slides.
Now with Agent Mode in PowerPoint, you can create presentations based on your Work IQ. Build rich presentations without the heavy lift of finding all the right files, meetings, and emails to compose relevant slides.
Edit your images directly in PowerPoint with Copilot, no need to switch apps or interrupt your flow. Whether you're refining visuals for a pitch deck, enhancing marketing assets, or simply making your slides pop, the image editor makes it fast and seamless. You can make edits like improving the resolution, removing the background, and more.
Copilot in PowerPoint lets you create, edit, and refine presentations through natural conversation, directly in your presentation. You can start a new presentation or build on an existing one, asking Copilot to generate slides, update content, improve layouts, and polish design—while preserving formatting, structure, and branding. Available to Copilot Chat users (without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license).
PowerPoint Agent helps you build polished presentations with strong storytelling and visual structure. It streamlines research, formatting, and layout so you can stay focused on your message. Use multi‑turn chat to refine content or open the deck in PowerPoint for full editing and collaboration. Ideal for executive presentations, strategic updates, and market overviews. Available to Microsoft 365 users with or without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
We are updating the entry point user interface for Copilot Chat. The Copilot Chat entry point button will move out of the app ribbon to the app canvas to help with discoverability and use within the context of the file. This update will apply to Microsoft 365 users of Word, Excel and PowerPoint who are eligible for Copilot Chat across web, mobile and desktop.
You can now adjust the length of your presentation, the tone of your narrative, the style of your slides, and leverage AI-generated images when creating with Copilot.
Edit your images directly in PowerPoint with Copilot, no need to switch apps or interrupt your flow. Whether you're refining visuals for a pitch deck, enhancing marketing assets, or simply making your slides pop, the image editor makes it fast and seamless. You can make edits like improving the resolution, removing the background, and more.
Chat in Work and PowerPoint now supports voice. Users can talk and interact with Copilot to brainstorm ideas, create content, and analyze information. Same as text, voice understand documents, work and web context.
Users will be able to click on "Explain this' on an acronym, text box, an image, or even a complete slide, and get a detailed contextual explanation of the selected object.
Once you connect your asset library hosted on Adobe Experience Manager to Microsoft365 and Copilot, Copilot will create presentations using your organization's images.
Easily access Copilot Chat from the side pane in your Microsoft 365 apps with a commercial Microsoft 365 license or a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
Use Copilot in the backstage view, accessible from the tile tab or start menu, to see a summary of the latest changes and comments made to your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files before opening them.
<p>Use your voice to talk with Copilot, interact in-real time, and understand the content within your document or presentation. Updated September 9, 2026: We will be re-releasing this feature with updates in October. Thank you for your patience.</p>
<p>We're now introducing the third generation of the Microsoft 365 sharing experience designed to make collaboration simpler, smarter, and more secure by default. At the heart of this update is the new hero link, a single, powerful link that controls access to your files. Whether you copy a link, share via email, or send the URL from your browser, you now have a seamless and consistent way to share and stay in control of your files.</p>
Organizations can build their own collections of prompts that are tailored to their business needs and workflows and distribute these to all users within the tenant.
Designer is now part of Copilot. Copilot Suggestions now brings you familiar Designer slide layout and presentation template suggestions in a vertical gallery, along with new capabilities.
Office for the web in Microsoft 365 supports the application of sensitivity labels with user-defined permissions.
Catch Up allows you to stay in sync with your collaborators in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint by showing you the latest comment activity that is directed at you and a summary of recent changes. Based on your feedback, we made improvements to the Catch Up feature. The comment activity directed at you will now persist in Catch Up between sessions for up to 28 days. New items will be indicated with a blue dot for clarity. You can also dismiss items individually if you do not wish to keep them in Catch Up.