There is a brand new feature in Microsoft 365 to convert a Word document to PowerPoint using AI.
Let's look
This is a brand new feature in Microsoft 365. If you do a search for Export Word
Document to PowerPoint you'll see an article if you scroll down here from Microsoft support
that describes how this feature works. This will export a regular word document into PowerPoint and
it uses AI to add imagery, icons, video, themes, and other fonts for your presentation. Now note
that it only works in the web app version of Word so you can't do this on the desktop version
at this time. I'm sure that'll be added at some point down the road. So let's go ahead and log in
to our office web apps and I'm going to go into word and I'm going to create a blank document.
Now at this point I can type text in here and create a basic text document that I can show you
how this export works but let's go ahead and take this document that we have from Microsoft support.
I'm going to hit Ctrl-C to copy. I'm going to come over to my Word document and Ctrl-V
to paste it. That copies everything as text and it's got some images here as well but
those images will be removed during the export that I'm about to show you. Now that we have
this you can see that it's got different sections and it's got an area here where it goes one, two,
three, four, five, for the steps and a variety of different sections down here. So let's see what
this does when we export it over to PowerPoint. Go to Fil-Export and you'll see this new feature
available that's in preview called Export to PowerPoint Presentation. Select that. It
brings up six different themes that you can choose from. Let's just pick the first one and hit Export
and now I can open my presentation in PowerPoint
and there it did a good job of converting all of those different text sections into
PowerPoint slides and if you take a look at any one of these sections you can see that
it has taken the different sentences and broke those down into different items on this slide.
Now at this point I can come over here to the designer and I can select a different layout
so since this one is steps, I'm going to use these arrows to represent it in a better layout,
but you can choose any of these you want to. Now note that you'll find in the designer there is an
option here with a diamond in the upper right corner. If you click on that you have to go
to the premium version and it is a subscription base that gives you those additional slides. So
we're just going to pick the free stuff right now but you do have that available if you want some
additional designer ideas. Now let's go ahead and start our presentation and see what it looks like.
You can see that it's got multiple slides with very organized sections and different topics
and it does a good job of making it look very professional. Now if we don't like this layout I
can close the PowerPoint and I can come back into my Word document and we'll do the Export again
and we'll pick one of the other six options here. Let's say we like this one better
and I'm going to open that again in PowerPoint
and now it does a completely different theme and you'll note here that it even adds some imagery.
Now, as I mentioned before, the original document does have some pictures in here
that describes things but those get ignored when you're doing this AI export into PowerPoint.
It'll only add the imagery based on the theme that you're using in PowerPoint so at this
point it's not including those images but future versions may do that, and you'll note that the
PowerPoint presentation is also in the PowerPoint web app. You can go in here and do a File-Save As
and save it on your desktop and then use your desktop app to open it once you're done,
but you still have to use the web app version of word in order to do this export option.
Overall, you can see how it does a great job of creating a very professional
PowerPoint presentation from a simple word document so give it a try. Hey,
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