Roadmap, security and documentation changes captured for PowerPoint.
In development×2 recordsPowerPointMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)
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.
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Seamlessly access your brand colors, images, icons, logos and more right within PowerPoint to create on-brand presentations.
In developmentPowerPointMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)
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.
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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.
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You can now create a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint straight from the PowerPoint Home in file menu.
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You can now create a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint just as you open the PowerPoint web app.
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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.
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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.
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You can now reference files saved in SharePoint libraries and OneDrive folders when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint.
Launched×2 recordsPowerPointMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)
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).
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This feature enhances the PowerPoint Live meeting experience by using Copilot to let attendees select slide text and get explanations for the content.
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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.
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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.
Launched×2 recordsPowerPointMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)
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.
Launched×3 recordsPowerPointMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)
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.
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You can now reference webpages when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint.
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You can now reference the content of a PowerPoint file when creating a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint using Agent Mode.
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You can now reference an email with Work IQ when using Edit with Copilot in PowerPoint to create a presentation.
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You can now reference an image when creating a presentation with Copilot using Agent Mode in PowerPoint.
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You can now reference a Teams meeting or chat when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint.
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You can now reference an image when creating a presentation with Copilot using Agent Mode in PowerPoint.
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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.
Launched×2 recordsPowerPointMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)
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.
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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.
Launched×2 recordsPowerPointMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)
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).
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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.
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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.
Launched×3 recordsPowerPointMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)
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.
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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.
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Copilot will help you form your narrative and turn that into a presentation of fully-designed slides.
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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.
Launched×3 recordsPowerPointMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)
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.
Launched×3 recordsPowerPointMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)
Once you connect your asset library hosted on Adobe Experience Manager to Microsoft365 and Copilot, Copilot will create presentations using your organization's images.
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Browse your company’s approved logos, icons, and photos right inside PowerPoint—no need to search elsewhere. Stay on brand and compliant with easy access to your organization’s asset library and connected image sources.
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You can now reference a Loop or Page when you create a presentation with Copilot within the PowerPoint application.
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New settings in Trust Center will allow users to restrict or allow file opens using FTP/HTTP protocols and fallback to FrontPage Remote Procedure Call (FPRPC) protocol.
Launched×3 recordsPowerPointMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)
Once your organization’s assets are integrated into a SharePoint Organization Asset Library (OAL) or connected through Templafy to Microsoft 365 Copilot, you’ll be able to easily create slides using your organization’s approved images.
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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.
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Now you will be able to rewrite text using Copilot through natural language prompting in PowerPoint.
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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.
Rolling outMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)PowerPointWord
Use your voice to talk with Copilot, interact in-real time, and understand the content within your document or presentation.
In developmentExcelMicrosoft 365OneDrive
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.
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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.
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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.
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Office for the web in Microsoft 365 supports the application of sensitivity labels with user-defined permissions.
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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.