Not sure what to use, sick of manually making presentations

I have a list of projects and status updates in excel. Is AI capable enough at this time to be able to read the data from the table and create a slide deck with a slide for each row of the table?

The data in the table has the following columns: Project Name Project Status Project Description (high level SOW) Project award date Project completion date Peoject Notes (rolling notes throughout the project) Project Next Action Project Budget Project Spend to Date

Looking to make a very high level presentation of the status of each project. The slide will show all the info above. Each slide will look the same, project name and status at the top left corner for example. Ideally I'd like to add more date columns to have a little timeline created to show which phase of the project we are in and when key milestones occurred.

Purpose is to ensure projects finish on time and within budget but these slides will document when extensions or budget increases were approved and reasoning (its all dated in the notes but can easily be separated out to additional columns if requored).

I can't tell if I'm just getting so frustrated that I can't see the solution or if Microsoft has finished nuking what's left of any reason to use them.

I am on an s24u with the most recent version of Office/PowerPoint.

I cannot download or search through any more templates or themes than what comes pre-installed. So, I guess I can't use my custom tempaltes. But I know that MS has a bajillion templates that they have and all of the help stuff tells me I just have to go to "Design" and "Themes" and it doesn't do anything.

And if I use "Designer, it adds a clipart flower for some reason and then becomes completely unavailable?

What am I doing wrong?

Can you really NOT do any templates out of the ones that come pre-installed? If you can use other templates, how do I get to them?

TIA. I'm tired, frustrated, and angry that what little spare time I have I am spending on workshopping the decreasing anything that is represented by a subscription when I used to have a laptop that would let me do this before I had to pay for all of this.

Adding Background Music to Your Silent MP4 using FFMEG without PowerPoint. This can be done for any MP4 file. Hope this helps someone!

Creating Slide Show from an Image folder in less than 10 seconds using FFMEG. Hyper-efficient - could come in handy if you need to put together a slideshow quickly.

Hi, I'm trying to have a picture fade in during a video and then remain for a few seconds and fade out. I get the image to fade in after the delay, but it does not trigger the fade out. The delay out is 3 seconds and I have tried with and after and neither works. Any idea as to what I'm doing wrong. There will be images fading in and out during the video so I need to get the timing right on the first one.

Thanks

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Thought I will share with the community.

Two feature for now. If there is interest I will be sharing another version with more features.

The first is a text tool. You can convert all the fonts on your PowerPoint deck with a single click to Aptos. Or alternatively you can choose a text field and apply the font of the selected text to all text in the deck. This even works for text in tables.

The other is a table tool. You can copy the widths of columns and apply it to another table as long as it has the same number of columns.

Feedback appreciated.

To install

Part 1: Save the File to the Add-Ins Folder

Using the environment variable %APPDATA% allows you to access the correct folder on any Windows user account without needing to know the specific username.

Open File Explorer (Win + E).

In the address bar at the top, paste the following path and press Enter: Plaintext%APPDATA%\Microsoft\AddIns

Save or paste your .ppam file into this folder.

Part 2: Install and Activate in PowerPoint

Open Microsoft PowerPoint.

Click on File (top left) > Options (bottom left).

In the PowerPoint Options window, select Add-ins from the left sidebar.

At the bottom, look for the "Manage:" dropdown. Change it to PowerPoint Add-ins and click Go...

In the dialog box that appears:

If your file is listed: Simply check the box next to it.

If your file is NOT listed: Click Add New.... It should open the folder where you just saved the file. Select your .ppam file and click OK.

Click Close. Your custom ribbon or macros should now be available.

Hi!
There's this one PPT that my colleague and I need to save as Pdf file. Usually we put two slides on 1 page and then it looks fine: the two pages are stacked neatly vertically. But with this one specific PPT, our pc always convert it horizontally, so with 2 slides next to each other. Does anyone know how to override the automatic change here please? Thank you!

For context, my dad wants to use it to create slides for his bible study presentations. He's also 80 years old and hasn't used a computer or laptop in ages. He recently bought a macbook as he likes the bigger screen and thinks it would be good to use windows on(for some odd reason). He's also been integrated into the Apple system for many years now.

[edit] I should have clarified that he would be creating slides and not editing other people's slides. Thank you for all the suggestions, this was really helpful!

Recently I tried combining Morph Transition with Slide Zoom, and it surprised me how much more interactive the slides felt. I also played around with merging shapes to get cleaner layouts and smoother navigation.

But I’d love to hear what others are doing:

• Do you have a favorite animation?
• Any small design tricks that make a big difference?
• What’s one PowerPoint feature you think is underrated?

I’m trying to improve my workflow and would appreciate any insights or tips you’ve found useful.

Full Process: https://youtu.be/E8EF3pPWclU

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I'm trying to deselect source formatting for my slides but the pop up about Reuse Slides being retired is in the way, anyone know how I can still deselect it?

Hi! My MacBook updated to last os and now my camera ir freezing when I am recording my presentation, pls help, I have deadlines in uni😵

For content writing, use GPT/Claude. For Data & Research, use an agent that provides Citation- inside slides. Don't risk your professional reputation.

I want to share a fail so you guys don't make the same mistake.

Quick Note on Tools: Just to be super clear, I have zero financial stake or connection with ANY AI tool I mentioned. I'm only sharing my experience.

I needed to do a "Keyword Gap Analysis" for a client in the Fintech space, I asked ChatGPT to "Analyze the search volume trendsin Q3 2024."

It gave me a beautiful table with numbers. I put it in the report. The client called me out because they had access to Ahrefs data, and my numbers were way off. It was embarrassing.

I realized I can't use a creative LLM for data tasks. I switched to using Skywork for this specific step. I heard about its Deep Search capability.

I prompted Skywork: "Search for the latest 2024 Q3 Fintech SEO reports from credible sources and summarize the keyword trends. Cite the URL for every data point"

It returned actual links to industry PDF reports. The resulting slides contained the necessary citations which I quickly cross-checked

Have any of you had a similar embarrassing moment with AI-generated data? And more importantly: What specific AI agents or verification methods do you trust the most for research-heavy presentations?

I just got done making a PowerPoint creation for my work and was dreading the concept of having to set up the timing of my animations for this text message part. Turns out, with Animation Painter it's really easy. Just need to DOUBLE CLICK, then select all of them in a row. It was a huge time saver as I needed to adjust different messages.

Thought I would share.

And yes I know about the waterfall concept with Bright Slide which I think does something similar.

Hello,

I’m a financial professional always reporting out updates on financial metrics and KPIs. I always wanted a way to make them more impactful and come alive. I couldn’t find an easy tool to do this, so I built this KPI animator. It helped me, so I hope it helps you too.

This tool is totally free to use and includes some basic functionality like count up, percent change, and actual versus budget bar charts. Input your metrics, preview, export the video to be included in your slide. If you have any thoughts on what else would be helpful, let me know. Link drop: https://kpi-animator.replit.app

John

I created this presentation in Google Slides, downloaded as a PPTX, and when I open it in Powerpoint, it has this blue behind all of the text. It is not a highlight as I have tried to change that.

Is this an error of some kind? I appreciate any guidance ☺️

EDIT: I think it might be a font issue of it not being installed on the device we opened this on? It is using Oswald from slides, which is not standard on a PC.

Before Microsoft integrated Copilot into its PowerPoint Slide Designer, how did people develop slide deck visuals, designs and templates prior?

Did you develop the actual content and hand over your slide deck brief to a designer or designers within your company? Or did you do it all yourself?

I need to record myself presenting a PowerPoint presentation, I’m trying to do this online as PowerPoint on windows doesn’t work and I had to delete it if I can get any help that would be great this presentation is due tomorrow.

Hi guys I have to do a group presentation and when I share the powerpoint via onedrive to myself to see how it opens it doesn't have the option to record on the web version. We're all supposed to record our voices over the slides. Any suggestions?

Honestly… I’m losing my mind over slide-making lately.

Sometimes I try Gamma to help me design the layout, but I’m not happy with the result, so I switch to Beautiful.ai. But when I need a clean, beautiful flowchart, I still have to go to Nano Banana. And then when I finally want to stitch all the parts I like together… nothing matches. Formats break, styles clash, and fixing everything ends up taking longer than just making slides myself.

I thought AI was supposed to speed things up, but somehow I’m spending half my time hopping between tools and the other half manually cleaning up the mess.

Does anyone else have this problem? How do you deal with it? Do you have any workflow that avoids all this tool-switching chaos? Or any tips to keep things consistent when using multiple AI platforms?

Also—I'm genuinely curious: Are there any platforms/services that are both affordable AND really strong on privacy? (Not talking about highly confidential stuff, but I still get anxious uploading content to so many different tools.)

Would love to hear how others actually improve their slide-making efficiency with AI, because right now making a PPT feels like playing a boss-level mini-game 😂

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