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If you’re wondering how to use ChatGPT to create PowerPoints, we’re going to be showing you exactly what it can do.
Making a PowerPoint with ChatGPT is a little bit tricky – and may require you to put in a little bit of thought. While you could probably rely on ChatGPT to choose colours, font-sizes, and the order of slides, it’s likely better off under your own control. If you’re going to use ChatGPT for this purpose – we’d recommend you having a pretty decent idea of what to do.
However, with recently empowered ChatGPT web browsing, this could all change.
Let’s break down how you can go about this…
How to make a Powerpoint with ChatGPT
Here’s how to make a PowerPoint slideshow with ChatGPT:
Time needed: 5 minutes
- Ask ChatGPT to write a PowerPoint macro that creates a PowerPoint Deck
Input the following prompt, adjusting accordingly: “Write a Powerpoint macro that creates a new PowerPoint deck with XXX amount of slides. The titles slide should be called “XXX”, font and size XXX and Bold. The slide colour should be XXX Each of the next XXX slides should be a XXX colour, and the titles of which should be size XXX and Bold. Here are the titles of the slides should be: 1) XXX 2) XXX 3) XXX, etc. Save the PowerPoint to my default Documents folder.”
- Open Powerpoint
- Press Alt + F11 to open PowerPoint VBA
Click on Insert > Module and paste the macros that ChatGPT had generated
- Click Run
This will run the Macro code in Powerpoint, which is going to generate a slideshow based on your parameters.
- Open the file
Locate the ..pptx file in your /documents/ folder
We’d recommend having a play around with things and being more specific, however the main thing you need to do is ask ChatGPT to generate a PowerPoint macro. From there, you should be able to have full creative control.
If you want to go a step further, you can give ChatGPT detailed prompts related to the contents of each slide.
How does ChatGPT create PowerPoints presentations?
All current iterations of GPT AI engines are language models, meaning they can only respond in text. However, code is text, and luckily ChatGPT is fantastic at writing code. One of PowerPoint’s most useful, but tricky, features is its macros. Writing VBA macros isn’t particularly hard, but ChatGPT makes it look easy.
What that means is that all you need to do is input some text describing the general aim of the presentation. You can go into more depth and input how long, how detailed, and how you’d like it to look too – but it really is as straightforward as that. However the main thing is for you to ask ChatGPT to write macro code that will create this PowerPoint.
We actually tested the latest version ourselves, GPT-4, with this approach and the results were pretty good. We recommended a colour scheme and design style for the PowerPoint, to make it as engaging as possible. So, although ChatGPT can’t currently create a PowerPoint by itself, it can write the code to generate a PowerPoint.
Is ChatGPT good for making PowerPoint presentations?
ChatGPT’s PowerPoint creation abilities are actually fairly competent. While the process isn’t exactly intuitive, and you need to have a fairly good idea of what you’re looking for, once you’ve managed to write a framework for what code is needed, you’re going to be able to do the rest pretty easily.
However, the main issue is going to be with figuring out what you need from the out-set. For example, you need to know exactly what design and format you’re going to want. While ChatGPT is good at actually creating a PowerPoint technically, it’s not entirely proficient at making design choices itself.
With that in mind – we implore you to check it out and give iit a go yourself.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can ChatGPT create Powerpoints?
Sort of, ChatGPT can create Powerpoint files through the clever use of macros. You’re going to have to do a bit of manual work, though it’s far easier than hand-making one yourself.
