Copilot not creating presentations from word documents...

Anonymous
2024-01-22T01:32:44+00:00

Hi, I recently purchased a subscription for copilot pro. All my office apps are up to date and I can see the copilot button in the ribbon. The issue I am having is that copilot won't create a presentation in powerpoint form a file - it has no idea what I'm talking about. Has anyone experienced this and found a fix?

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Steve Rindsberg 99,176 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2024-04-01T15:16:07+00:00

Conor (and all the other folks who've been having trouble with this missing feature):

TL;DR: Those of us with regular Office subscriptions cannot use this feature.

Microsoft has done a less than stellar job of explaining the new CoPilot feature and which versions of Office get what features.

The ability to create a presentation from a Word file is only available to users who:

a) Have an ENTERPRISE license for Office 365, and

b) Whose enterprise bosses have paid the $30/month per user fee for CoPilot

The *specific* name of the required product is "Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365" as distinct from CoPilot or CoPilot Pro.

Here's a page that explains the requirements:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot/microsoft-365-copilot-requirements

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-02-07T17:36:57+00:00

    My fault for not accessing this thread. I have spent hours trying to get a Word document into PowerPoint via Copilot. Extremely frustrated and causing profanity. When will this feature be available? Microsoft needs to CLARIFY its marketing and videos to show how Copilot can magically create PPT from Word. VERY DISAPPOINTED - although the product IS amazing.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-01-26T19:52:20+00:00

    Update: I was mistaken when I posted earlier. I was not able to get it to work once. It used the name of the file to generate content, not the actual file.

    I spoke with Microsoft Support and found someone who explained this feature is not available.for Personal.accounrs, only business.

    One of the instruction videos includes referring to a file name using @. Start typing the file name after @ and it brings up files to select. That does not happen with personal. It seems.to be a backend issue.. There's no way for copilot to search for or access files on a personal one drive account. Possibly because there's no Microsoft Graph connection. It works fine on business but there we also get copilot in Teams where you can ask questions about and refer to documents and data.

    Summary: despite being advertised, this feature is not available for personal copilot pro M365 users. At least not yet.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-01-25T22:43:22+00:00

    I have the same problem. However, it worked once. I had the word document open. I copied the document name, not the one drive link. Just the document name. I left it open. Then I opened a blank presentation in PowerPoint and asked copilot: make a short presentation from 'document name'. And it worked! Just 5 slides. I tried to replicate it just minutes later and it failed repeatedly.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-01-24T08:38:47+00:00

    I have a both an Office 365 license and Copilot pro license as well and am running into the same issue. I tried adding the document into word and then utilizing the word doc's link, but that did not work either. I am having trouble with just getting past the second step where I cannot select create a presentation with a file. It is not appearing.

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