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
    2024-01-25T04:03:41+00:00

    Hi Froiliance,

    I can't provide screen shots of my build and licences at the moment, but I purchased a M365 licence at teh same time as the Copilot licence (about 4 days ago now). Hopefully that gives you some surety about it being up to date.

    Please also note that I have had this issue on my PC, the web version, and on a Mac (which I updated, purchased a M365 and Copilot Pro licence for). To date, I have yet to hear of anyone being able to use this feature of Copilot. Can you do it on your version?

    Kind regards,

    Conor

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  2. 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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  3. Anonymous
    2024-01-25T23:49:58+00:00

    Thanks Connor,

    I did subscribe to Pro (and have turned off auto renewal for now).

    Someone on your thread or on mine (I had started my own and found yours) suggested logging out of my MS account and then logging back in. I'm about to try that. If it works I'll post here!

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-01-26T17:09:41+00:00

    I am in the same boat. I purchased office 365 and microsofot copilot pro licenses but unable to generate presentation from the word document.

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