Turn Notes Into Slides | PowerPoint Copilot Skills (2026)

Copilot skills in PowerPoint let you save a repeatable task once and reuse it forever — and you can build your own without writing any code.

In this video I walk through the Skills feature in PowerPoint Copilot end to end: what a skill actually is, where to find the ones Microsoft already gives you, and how to build your own custom skill using one reusable prompt framework that Copilot fills in for you. I demo two built-in skills I use every day (Explain this presentation and Visualize this slide), then build a custom "customer success story slide" skill live and run it on rough notes. At the end, a first look at Microsoft's brand-new Create interactive slides skill rolling out in the Frontier program.

If you have a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, everything except the Frontier feature is available to you today.

In this video you'll learn:
✅ What a Copilot skill is (a reusable playbook, not a macro or add-in)
✅ Where skills live and two ways to run them (Choose skills menu + @mention)
✅ How to manage skills and control which ones Copilot can use
✅ How to build your own custom skill with a reusable prompt — no coding
✅ How to upload a custom skill into PowerPoint and run it

Chapters
00:00 The slide that built itself
00:58 What a Copilot skill really is
02:27 Two skills I use every day
04:47 Why custom skills are the real power
05:47 The reusable prompt to steal
06:34 Upload it into PowerPoint
07:23 The moment of truth
08:17 What's coming: interactive slides (Frontier Preview)
09:14 Your task this week

Resources / Links
• Read the full written breakdown + get every new one free → M365 Copilot Connection on Substack: https://m365copilotconnection.substack.com
• Download the reusable skill-builder prompt (free) → https://1drv.ms/b/c/731A5A66AE....1C3CCB/IQBqXK6WmV_xR
• Copilot in PowerPoint — Skills (Microsoft support) — https://support.microsoft.com/....en-us/powerpoint/cop
• Licensing note: The Skills feature and custom skills shown here require a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. "Create interactive slides" is currently Frontier-program preview only and is not yet available to all users. Copilot Chat used to generate the skill file is available more broadly.
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