{"id":154321,"date":"2026-07-27T14:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mauriziolacava.com\/?p=154321"},"modified":"2026-08-17T16:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:29:21","slug":"copilot-powerpoint-skills-step-by-step-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauriziolacava.com\/en\/copilot-powerpoint-skills-step-by-step-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Copilot Skills in PowerPoint: the step-by-step guide to all three skills (and to writing your own)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Key Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

•  The model matters more than the skill. <\/strong>Same deck and same skill, two different models produced results that do not belong in the same category. The selector sits at the top of the Copilot panel and ships set to Auto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

•  Order decides the outcome. <\/strong>Story first with Revise this presentation, design second, objections last. Redesigning a deck whose structure does not hold is painting a cracked wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

•  The four setup questions are the brief. <\/strong>Audience, format, channel and duration drive everything downstream, including how many slides you end up holding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

•  Visualize this slide returns an image, not a slide. <\/strong>Convincing when it works, permanently uneditable, and unusable on decks that will be updated or need to stay accessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

•  Prepare for questions is the skill nobody runs and the one that pays most. <\/strong>It produces a prioritized list of objections with acknowledgement, reframing and the evidence to add, before you walk into the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/span>Introduction<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Copilot Skills in PowerPoint arrived quietly: three of them, plus a fourth capability that matters more than the three combined, because you can now write your own. To find out whether any of this survives contact with real work, I made a deliberate choice. Instead of starting from a deck that was already decent, I asked an AI model to generate the worst possible presentation about Lean Presentation Design. The result exceeded expectations, and it gave me exactly the material I needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What follows is the full walkthrough, step by step, with the screenshot of every screen you will see. It accompanies four short videos, and it works two ways. If you are watching, keep it open alongside: every step carries the timestamp, so you can jump straight to the part you care about. If you would rather not watch anything, the guide stands on its own and you can reproduce the whole thing in PowerPoint without pressing play once. If you are looking for the companion piece, the walkthrough on PowerPoint AI image editing<\/a> covers the image side of the same toolset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One finding is worth stating up front, because it reframes everything else. The skill you choose is not what determines the quality of the output. The model is. And for the first time, that choice sits in your hands, inside PowerPoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Left, the starting point. Right, the same content after passing through Copilot Skills. Nine steps separate them, and one of those steps changes everything.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Want the whole walkthrough as a PDF? Get the 24-page guide with every screenshot and the four videos linked from inside the pages.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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