From the course: Copilot in PowerPoint: From Prompt to Presentation

Overview of Copilot features

From the course: Copilot in PowerPoint: From Prompt to Presentation

Overview of Copilot features

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- [Instructor] When you open a file or start a new presentation in a PowerPoint, the Copilot button will appear on the top right side of the home ribbon. I've started a new blank file and I'll select the Copilot button to launch the pane. The Copilot pane includes two main sections. The top portion includes a brief statement followed by a set of suggestions you can try, and the bottom of the task pane is the prompt window. This is where you send instructions to Copilot. The suggestions at the top of the task pane and the bottom in the prompt area will change depending on if you're working on a new file or a saved presentation. I've started a new blank file, so the top of the pane suggests three things to try. Create a presentation, create a presentation from file or add a slide about. At the bottom, the prompt window reads, "Ask a question or make a request." You can type directly into this prompt window. Ask Copilot a question or make a request, these are called prompts. Type a new prompt yourself or use one of the examples in the Copilot pane as a start and fill in the rest. Notice the small numbers at the bottom of the prompt window. This is the character count. You can type in a maximum of 2000 characters, including spaces. There are also three icons in the prompt window. The first is View Prompt, then Microphone, followed by the Send arrow. Choose the Microphone to dictate directly into the prompt window and select the Send arrow each time you finish typing a prompt and you're ready to hand it off to Copilot. The Enter key works the same way. After you've typed a prompt, press Enter on your keyboard to send it to Copilot. Selective icon to View Prompts, reveals more suggestions. Create, Edit, Ask, and View more prompts. When you choose one of these options, you'll see examples for how that type of prompt can help you create or edit content. I'll choose the Create prompt. And you'll see different examples like create a presentation from file, create a presentation about with some sample topic and parentheses, and add a slide about with another example. When you select any prompted suggestion, the text is going to change in the prompt window to include that as starter text. I'll choose, create a presentation about, and you'll see the blinking cursor appears ready for me to describe what type of presentation I want copilot to create. Alternatively, you can type the full prompt yourself. Going back to View Prompts, if I choose Edit, you'll see an example that says, "Add an image of" with a sample topic in parentheses. And going back to View Prompts, if I choose Ask, you'll see examples for how copilot can help including specific examples from your presentation. Now, the Copilot pane changes a little when you open an existing presentation. I'll open this Globe Bank presentation. And first off, we see a notification that says, "Get a summary from Copilot." I'll choose Not now, and open up the Copilot pane from the home ribbon. Because we're working with an existing presentation rather than an empty file, the suggestions for prompts change to; create a presentation from file, summarize this presentation and organize this presentation. Notice that Copilot has surfaced a couple of questions above the prompt window. These questions are directly related to the current presentation. If you select one of these questions, Copilot will review the presentation content and reply directly in the pane. With the same presentation open again, I'll choose the View Prompts icon. And now each prompt category is going to show additional examples that pertain to an existing presentation versus creating a new one. And there's a new topic, Understand. I'll select Understand, and you see examples for prompts to help you comprehend or gain insights about the presentation content. The examples include prompt ideas like summarize, show action items or key slides.

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