Building a PowerPoint with Claude

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   [upbeat music] Claude in PowerPoint is a powerful AI agent that reads your slide master, layouts, fonts, and color scheme, then builds and edits slides that stay on brand. Everything you build manually, Claude can help with. Describe what you need, and Claude generates slides using your template. Select a slide and tell Claude what to change. Convert bullets into diagrams and native charts you can edit directly. Claude knows which slide and object you have selected, so you can point it to exactly what you'd like changed. You can also upload additional files using the plus button to give Claude more context. Let's start by generating an entire presentation from scratch. We have a branded template loaded with our slide master, layouts, and color scheme already in place. We'll give Claude a clear description of what we need. Create a ten-slide deck assessing the fintech industry in this template. Cover market size and growth, key segments, major players, regulatory landscape, emerging trends, and investment outlook. Use a data-driven analyst tone. Claude reads the template and generates a full deck structure. It picks up the correct title slide layout, section headers, and content layouts from the slide master. The fonts, colors, and spacing all match the template. No off-brand elements. Claude will ask permission before making changes. You can either review every change or let Claude make any necessary edits. Claude also tells you where it pulled the data from. The generated deck includes a title slide, an executive summary, market size, regulatory environment, and competitive landscape slides, along with deep dives into emerging trends, risks, and challenges. That's a structured first draft from a single prompt. The slide order, content hierarchy, and template formatting are all in place. Now we can focus on refining the substance instead of building the scaffolding. The executive summary slide has six bullet points. That's too many for an audience to absorb at a glance. We can ask Claude, "Restructure the executive summary as three key takeaways, each with a bold headline and one supporting sentence." Claude rewrites the slide content while keeping the same layout. The formatting stays consistent with the rest of the deck. It distills six bullets into three main bullets for an exec audience and makes them easier to read and digest. Now let's look at the overall flow. Slides four and five, key market segments and segment deep dive, overlap significantly. Both cover payments, lending, and embedded finance. We can ask Claude, "Combine slides four and five into a single slide that shows the revenue breakdown by segment alongside the key growth metrics for each." Claude merges the content, keeps the projected revenue figures from slide four, and pulls in the growth rates and notable data points from slide five. It consolidates two slides into one and asks before deleting the extraneous slide. The deck is tighter. We can also reorder. The regulatory slide covers open banking mandates and real-time payments infrastructure, both of which directly drive the growth numbers on earlier slides. Let's tell Claude, "Move the regulatory landscape slide to right after market size and growth trajectory." Claude repositions the slide, and the deck now reads market size, regulatory drivers, segments, then competitive landscape. The argument builds more logically. Each of these edits would normally involve manual copying, reformatting, and checking for consistency. Claude handles the mechanical work and keeps the template intact throughout, giving you a polished presentation-ready deck built entirely from a single prompt. [upbeat music]

Episode duration: 4:04