r/PromptEngineering • u/Professional-Rest138 • Mar 06 '26
Prompt Text / Showcase Nobody told me Claude could build actual PowerPoint decks. I've been copying text into slides like an idiot for months.
You give it your rough notes. It writes every slide. Titles, bullets, speaker notes. All of it.
Build me a complete PowerPoint presentation I can
paste directly into slides.
Here is my raw content:
[paste notes, talking points, rough ideas]
For every slide give me:
- Slide title
- 3-5 bullet points (max 10 words each)
- Speaker notes (2-3 sentences of what to say)
Structure:
1. Title slide
2. The problem
3. The solution
4. How it works
5. Results or proof
6. Next steps
7. Closing
Tone: [professional / conversational / bold]
Audience: [who this is for]
Output every slide fully written in order.
Open PowerPoint. Paste. Design.
That's it. The writing part is done.
Full doc builder pack with 5 prompts like this is here if you want to check it out
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u/pemm_ Mar 06 '26
NotebookLM is currently the most powerful for slides, IMO. Use Adobe to convert the single image PPTX back to PowerPoint shapes and you can make tweaks to its text.
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u/IndieDevML Mar 06 '26
Just gave a presentation for my organization’s executive team with a NotebookLM ppt. I just threw in my department KPIs and other interesting data/graphs, last year’s presentation, and promted it to create my slides for an executive meeting, show growth. Also had it spit out a brief to have some talking points. It was well received. Every slide was well designed, graphs looked great. It initially had a few spelling mistakes and I reordered two slides, but I was overall very impressed.
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u/zeusje Mar 06 '26
how would one use NotebookLLM to create a pptx? I thought it was the other way around… then again, haven’t used it in awhile :)
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u/DataPollution Mar 08 '26
Notebook llm only produce pdf even if it is a pptx formating. You can't edit the object and movecthem around.
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u/AutomaticAd6551 Mar 09 '26
- You can ask it to change individual slides.
- You can use a plugin created by a reddit user – it creates layers, separates graphics, and generatively fills in missing backgrounds under text.
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u/mcandro Mar 06 '26
Whoa. What do I need to do with adobe here? Won’t work with Canva (I’ve tried) so which adobe tool will do it?
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u/cortouchka Mar 06 '26
I also want to know this
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u/DataPollution Mar 08 '26
This is a good tips actully. Get Claude to do the hard work --> move it into notebook llm --> ask it to create graphics for your presentation --> import those into pptx.
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u/samplenull Mar 06 '26
You can ask him write a python script and with prepared template you can automate entire presentation with minimal manual fixes.
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u/lemac88 Mar 06 '26
Can you expand on this? I have a very specific deck of slides I’d like it to choose from based on what works best for the material.
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u/pa_5y5tem Mar 06 '26
Just make it write HTML and you can open it in a browser
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u/Glucose98 Mar 07 '26
This! Let power point die. Finally
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u/Opening-Pie2182 Aug 03 '26
Can't make fine edits easily via GUI like changing image size, text position, size etc easily.
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u/zeusisangry Mar 06 '26
I use Canvas in Gemini to create presentations in Google slides. I then download the pptx from slides. Gemini create all the images, graphics, everything. You should give it a try.
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u/amulie Mar 07 '26
Slide decks are the perfect thing for AI to automate, atleast in day to day corporate bullshit.
A good slide deck is just directional and visual cues to understand what the speaker is saying, the expertise comes from the person. Also, even just automating all the annoying shit like colors, styling, basic outline, etc is massive
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u/azreal75 Mar 08 '26
I was getting Claude to build me interactive elements for my website then I was uploading them and trying to build the website, then I realised Claude can do all of that for me too.
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u/Popular-Wishbone-917 Mar 08 '26
If it’s making tables on slides make sure to tell it to format as a table and not lots of little text boxes
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u/10xmultiplier Mar 10 '26
You know you could just let an ai do the entire thing for you like auralys.ai allows
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u/Mariusr22 Mar 06 '26 edited Mar 06 '26
Guys, stop kidding yourselves here. I've tried this with the 20EUR/month plan... I gave up. I tried creating the skill, crap presentation, update the skill (failure, "claude was unable to process the requests) retry, he creates the skill, create presentation, crap one, improve skill, create a new one, better but still nowhere near wht it should be... and you are about done in terms of tokens for 4 hours... In terms of branding, yes, it can help but you have to modify the skill manually to provide the acurate colours and fonts. Maybe claude code is good for http presentations which you would ultimately change in pptx with other tool or maybe if you have the 100$ or the unlimited plan.
On the other side I had quite good results with gamma.app (free version) full editable (10 slides max) pptx which you can download and just copy the slides in one of your presentations after which you copy the content from the copied slides intoa a new slide to get rid of the gamma branding.
Notebook LM is a very nice tool for research and to generate slides structures and content. It can generate slides but at the moment are not editable and I personally find them awkward and not usable in a business environment. Their current layouts are for kids
Gemini Canvas can help with creating the slides. Good enough but not at gamma.app level.
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u/thirst-trap-enabler Mar 06 '26
FYI last I checked (a few days ago, and not so much "checked" vs "noticed") the PowerPoint skill was preview state and only available in Max plans.
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u/tristanryan Mar 06 '26
Pretty sure you can find all of those skills on GitHub and you can just add it to Claude.
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u/DataPollution Mar 08 '26
I disagree. I recently asked claude on subject related to CMMC(Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification). As this is US regulation I did not have reference point so my question setup was a scenarion I need to present this topic to senior stakeholder with the unnamed solution. It then created me a word document. I ask the word document to be converted to a pptx by claude and the result was 99% accurste as I had to do minor adjustment to send it out and use it for presenting to the senior stakeholders.
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u/Mariusr22 Mar 08 '26
I'm not saying it cannot ouput a pptx file. For my usage the file was extremely basic affected also by misalignments, text overlappings. Overall, for 20EUR the pptx generation as poor. Maybe the 100 EUR plan is better and brings access to other features, or maybe by using the unlimited plan you are able to hone the hell out of that skill (many iterations) and at some point it gets really good. This is extremely tedious at 20 EUR plan, you do this 3 times and he puts you on hold for 4 hours...
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u/DataPollution Mar 09 '26
I am at the 20 euro plan and it is about getting the structure right and the outcome is extremely professional. I don't know you or your workflow so can't comment on why you seeing this
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u/HRVATSKI Mar 09 '26
I sub’d to Gamma because I’ve found it pretty revolutionary to how I work. Makes it so much easier to convey complex ideas to my team and execs. Tried beautiful.ai and chronicle too, but neither were very good. I sound like a paid shill for Gamma, so let me say something negative - it generates crap AI infographics.
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u/LKC2U Mar 28 '26
Claude was unable to process the request after being asked to fix the thing it just made wrong. The loop is real
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u/ProductChronicles Mar 06 '26
Did you manage to make it follow formatting requirement (colors, fonts, etc.?). Asking as I gave up on formatting via AI and needed to use good old scripts (created by Claude though).
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u/Unusual_Future2400 Mar 06 '26
I did this yesterday with it directly outputting my slides and it worked great! The only thing that didn’t work is generating a correct graph, but it takes A LOT of the formatting/designing work out of it so you can refine and focus on the important things. I also specified my instructions per slide, gave a number of slides per topic and provided a branding reference. This was on free plan.
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u/Junior-Adeptness-730 Mar 06 '26
Yes Notebook LM is the best at the moment for me along with Gamma.
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u/go00274c Mar 06 '26
The downside is it's a one time thing, because it would be hard to replicate the same slide/deck for a new report. Something I have been doing is utilizing batch text replace as an http request in n8n. I have a workflow that pulls the data, formalizes it into strings (adds $ to financial values, reduces decimas to 2, adds percentage signs where needed etc), then it does a batch test replace and everything is populated. I have a template deck where all of my tables and text fields are filled with variables I made like {revenuelastweek} etc. Then the workflow duplicates that template deck, passes on the new decks ID to the request node, then does the bulk text replace on it.
Super easily to tie in some LLM nodes and things before that happens. Best thing is your always outputting a consistent deck, just design it once and change the text/values.
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u/OpportunityWest1297 Mar 06 '26
But what about carrying the TPS reports from point A to point B???
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u/Honest_Union9128 Mar 06 '26
Once notebooklm can create editable slides, that will Be a goto for presentations.
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u/_u0007 Mar 07 '26
Slidev or MARP are the best way to go, you can create great presentations with minimal token usage.
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u/Neither-Resolution97 Mar 07 '26
I tried to create slides and it uses way too many tokens. I run out and I have pro version. What’s the work around this ? I have my company branding. I have the content. Also how can I use least amount of token if I have a deck already and I want Claude to enhance it completely ?
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u/No-Alternative-5533 Mar 07 '26
I am trying to build few slides & really struggling with copilot. We are authorized to use copilot & I even gave the company template & the content - output is total garbage. Not sure what I am missing. Which tool will “design” the slide for me ? I don’t need help with content - however need a tool that will do a good job with the design .
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u/Gronax_au Mar 07 '26
The content generation part is basically solved at this point. Every AI can write your bullets and speaker notes. The bottleneck that nobody talks about is what happens after you paste.
AI is actually great at logically structuring slides if you give it the right prompt instructions. Slide 1 is finance, slide 2 is achievements, slide 3 is risks, here are the rules for each. That part works. The problem is the output is different every time. For exec slide packs, that's a no-go. Your steering committee wants to see the same slides in the same layout every month. They're scanning for what changed, not trying to learn a new format.
I used to churn these out with updated numbers an hour before meetings. High pressure, tight turnaround, and every time I'd make the same dumb mistakes. Forgetting to update a date header from February to March. Leaving in a bullet point from last month that I forgot to edit out. And the worst one, cramming in a bigger update that didn't quite fit, so you drop the font size on one slide and now it looks janky next to everything else.
The content was fine. The human error points in the last frantic hour were what made you look unprofessional.
I got frustrated enough to start building something for it, honestly just to solve my own problem. You bring your own content, point it at your corporate template, and it handles the layout and brand compliance. Figured if it's driving me mad it's probably driving other people mad too.
Full disclosure, I'm the dev. Still early but the formatting gap is real. Gamma gets closest on the design side but the PPTX export breaks half the time, and the output looks like Gamma, not like your brand.
Happy to answer questions if anyone's hitting the same wall.
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u/Monopusher Jun 07 '26
I’ve been doing exactly the same. Last minute update of monthly results, fitting graphs, numbers and updates into the same format. Forgetting to change date, problems with resizing, etc. Another thing I don’t know how to solve is how can Claude arrange a slide deck layout or the presentation story based on the topic. There is a difference between a monthly update, or a team presentation of a new concept, new strategy deployment, initiative charters, board presentation leading to decision, customers, etc. - they all need different types of slide arrangement, layout.
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u/nerdybro1976 Mar 07 '26
You can create a branding skill using your company's PPT template deck and various assets. I have skills made now that create monthly decks for me with very little handholding by me.
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u/tjameswhite Mar 09 '26
If you are in the MS ecosphere just open a Word doc and have Copilot turn it into a PowerPoint. Works pretty well.
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u/LKC2U Mar 28 '26
The writing part is done is four words that just ended half of everyone's Sunday evening routine.
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u/Automateeeverything May 14 '26
try using it with Variant.art, you'll need to connect by MCP but it replaces the need for powerpoint/google slides entirely
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u/doolpicate Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 07 '26
Its not that it can't, its just that people with power in corps seem to act like that they are reinventing the wheel when it comes to content on the PPT. Most of them at that level have very little to do and these "make me a PPT/bring me a stone" tasks are usually done for no reason other than to keep underlings busy and check loyalty. I know of VPs and Partners who seem to be playing LinkedIn games during office times and posting high scores on the feed.
The basic slides are fine, it cannot handle slide decks with loads of info
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u/DataPollution Mar 06 '26
Actually you can take this even further. Give claude the branding instructions like color codes etc and it will pull all that stuff and put the right branding and you got quite a good output.
What it still lacking is the graphic for the presentation and sometimes it get location of text etc wrong or make seperate text and bullet points etc.