Most of the time spent on a short internal presentation goes into staring at an empty slide and deciding what the title should be. The content usually exists already, in notes or a report. What is missing is the structure.
TL;DR: Ask ChatGPT for a fixed shape (five slides, one title and three key lines each), then paste each slide's title and lines into PowerPoint.
Steps
- Give ChatGPT your material together with a request like this (translated): Draft an outline for a presentation called "Q3 sales results" as five slides. For each slide, only a one-line title and three key lines, no other explanation.
- Copy the title line of slide 1 and paste it into the slide's title box.
- Copy the three key lines and paste them into the content box.
- If the pasted text is small, select it with
Ctrl+Aand set the font size to 28. - Press
Ctrl+Mfor a new slide and repeat for the rest.
In my test, one line of material produced a five-slide outline in about four seconds, and it became five slides in PowerPoint for the web.
Why slide by slide
PowerPoint for the web has no feature that splits a pasted outline into separate slides. Pasting per slide is the reliable route there. It is still faster than writing from scratch, because the titles and points are already decided.
Asking for a fixed shape
"Only a title and three lines, no other explanation" is the part that saves the most time. The answer then contains just what goes on the slides, so every copy is a straight paste with nothing to trim first.
Written with AI assistance. The steps were tested by hand before publishing.
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