ChatGPT Comes to PowerPoint: New Ways for Teams to Create, Automate and Save
OpenAI is bringing ChatGPT closer to the applications that businesses use every day.
ChatGPT for PowerPoint is now generally available, Codex can interact with desktop applications such as Microsoft Excel using computer-use capabilities, and eligible American Express Business customers in the United States can receive statement credits on ChatGPT Business purchases.
Together, these developments make it easier for teams to create business content, complete repetitive work and spend less time switching between applications.
ChatGPT for PowerPoint Is Now Generally Available
ChatGPT for PowerPoint is now generally available to ChatGPT Business and Enterprise customers.
Instead of moving presentation content between ChatGPT and PowerPoint manually, users can access ChatGPT from a sidebar inside Microsoft PowerPoint. The experience is designed to help teams create, edit, understand and improve presentations while preserving editable slide structures.
This means your team can use ChatGPT to:
- Create a first draft of a presentation from notes, documents or other source material
- Add new slides to an existing presentation
- Rewrite or shorten slide content
- Adapt a presentation for executives, customers or internal employees
- Review the overall narrative and structure of a deck
- Identify missing information, unclear sections and likely audience questions
- Turn long reports or documents into presentation-ready content
- Apply repeatable presentation workflows using approved Skills, templates and connected applications
The slides remain editable in PowerPoint, allowing employees to refine the layout, wording, charts and branding before sharing the finished presentation.
Where Businesses Can Use It
ChatGPT for PowerPoint can support many common workplace presentation requirements.
Quarterly and Monthly Business Reviews
Teams can turn performance data, operational updates and departmental notes into a structured QBR or monthly business review.
For example, a user could ask:
Build a 10-slide quarterly business review using these sales figures, customer updates and operational KPIs. Include an executive summary, key achievements, risks and next-quarter priorities.
Customer Presentations
Sales and account management teams can use source documents to prepare customer briefings, proposal presentations and account reviews.
ChatGPT can also help tighten the presentation for a particular audience, highlight the most relevant information and identify questions the customer may raise.
Board and Management Updates
Management teams can convert lengthy reports into shorter, decision-focused presentations covering performance, risks, recommendations and next steps.
Training Materials
HR, operations and training teams can turn policies, procedures and instructional documents into structured training slides.
Strategy and Project Presentations
Teams can use ChatGPT to organise research, project plans and strategic recommendations into a clearer presentation narrative.
Free Preview and Usage Changes
Eligible customers can explore ChatGPT for PowerPoint through a free preview from 6 July to 6 August 2026.
ChatGPT for PowerPoint usage remains free for eligible ChatGPT Business and Enterprise customers through 6 August 2026. From 7 August 2026, usage will count towards the applicable plan’s agentic usage and credit structure.
The amount of usage required may vary depending on factors such as:
- The number of slides
- The size of the presentation
- The amount of source material provided
- The complexity of the requested edits
- Whether the task involves several stages or connected data sources
Workspace administrators can manage access according to their organisation’s plan, workspace configuration and application settings.
How to Install ChatGPT for PowerPoint
Users can install ChatGPT for PowerPoint through Microsoft PowerPoint:
- Open Microsoft PowerPoint.
- Select Home.
- Select Add-ins.
- Search for ChatGPT.
- Add the application.
- Open ChatGPT from the PowerPoint ribbon.
- Sign in using an eligible ChatGPT account.
Organisations that restrict access to the Microsoft Marketplace can also have a Microsoft 365 administrator deploy the add-in internally and assign it to approved users or groups.
Codex Can Work with Desktop Applications
OpenAI is also expanding what Codex can do through computer use.
Computer use allows an AI agent to interact with software through the application’s user interface. It can inspect what is displayed, click buttons, enter information and navigate menus, subject to the permissions and approvals provided by the user.
This makes it possible to use Codex for tasks that involve working across desktop applications rather than simply generating a block of text in a chat window.
In Microsoft Excel, for example, users can install the ChatGPT for Excel add-in, open a workbook and ask Codex in the ChatGPT desktop application to work with the file. OpenAI recommends reviewing formulas, source data and workbook changes before saving or sharing the completed file.
Potential use cases include:
- Reviewing an existing spreadsheet
- Updating tables and workbook content
- Checking calculations and formulas
- Reorganising information between worksheets
- Converting raw data into a clearer reporting format
- Moving approved information between Office documents
- Performing repetitive editing and formatting tasks
- Updating recurring reports using new source data
Computer-use availability depends on the user’s ChatGPT plan, workspace settings, operating system, installed plugins and administrator permissions.
From AI Assistance to AI-Powered Workflows
The important change is not simply that ChatGPT can generate PowerPoint content.
These capabilities allow ChatGPT and Codex to become part of a broader business workflow.
A team could begin with meeting notes, source documents and an Excel workbook. ChatGPT could help analyse the material, identify the most important findings and organise them into a presentation. Employees could then review the slides, adjust the messaging and complete the final formatting in PowerPoint.
This can reduce the amount of manual copying, rewriting and reformatting required when preparing recurring business deliverables.
However, human review remains essential.
Employees should always check:
- Financial figures and calculations
- Claims and factual statements
- Customer and company information
- Formulas and spreadsheet references
- Presentation formatting
- Confidential or sensitive information
- Compliance with internal policies
- Whether the final content is suitable for its intended audience
OpenAI also advises users to review important claims, numbers and presentation changes before relying on or sharing the output. Advanced formatting and template matching may still require manual adjustment.
What These Updates Mean for Businesses
ChatGPT is moving beyond a standalone conversational tool and becoming more closely integrated with everyday business applications.
For companies, the potential benefits include:
- Faster preparation of business presentations
- Less time spent rewriting and reformatting content
- More consistent recurring reports and presentation structures
- Easier conversion of documents into executive-ready summaries
- Greater productivity across marketing, sales, operations, finance and management teams
- Reduced application switching during content creation
- More opportunities to automate repetitive knowledge-work tasks
The greatest value is likely to come from combining these tools with clear internal processes, approved source material and proper employee training.
Businesses should begin with controlled use cases, establish review requirements and ensure employees understand what information can be shared with AI tools.
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