Copilot and empower®: Streamline PowerPoint presentation creation
Microsoft has generated significant media buzz with Copilot, particularly for its ability to create PowerPoint presentations using voice commands. While this feature has garnered much attention, real-world use reveals a different story: Copilot can assist in presentation creation but cannot handle the entire process. At empower®, we aim to clarify Copilot’s role and demonstrate how empower® fills the critical gaps.
To provide clarity, this article highlights the distinctions between the two solutions, ensuring transparency for users seeking the right tools for their needs.
Common Challenges in Presentation Creation
Business presentations typically need to convey complex content, influence strategic decisions, and meet company-specific requirements. This creates a demand for slides that:
- Contain detailed charts and tables to effectively communicate data and analysis.
- Require customized visualizations far beyond basic standard layouts.
- Ensure brand compliance so every slide aligns with corporate design guidelines, representing the brand professionally.
Creating such slides is time-intensive and demands specialized knowledge and skills. Most users struggle with this task, as they often have limited familiarity with PowerPoint, corporate branding standards, and design principles. The pressure of tight deadlines exacerbates the situation, resulting in unsatisfactory outcomes despite considerable effort.
What Copilot Can Do
Does Copilot resolve these challenges in presentation creation? Not entirely. However, it does offer:
Content generation through voice commands: Using its Narrative Builder feature, Copilot structures content into slides based on 43 PowerPoint master layout templates recommended by Microsoft. These templates use simple placeholders and image-text combinations, offering a visual starting point.
Support for early drafts: Copilot is often demonstrated creating slides by pulling information either from the internet or pre-trained datasets. In some cases, it uses existing documents (e.g., Word files or PDFs) as a foundation for generating slide content. By the way: Copilot also works in Outlook and Teams.
While these capabilities are helpful, such scenarios rarely reflect the day-to-day needs of businesses. Ideas for presentations often start as undeveloped thoughts within a team and require full development before becoming polished slides. Copilot can provide an initial framework for these ideas, giving them a rough visual form.
However, for demanding presentations, Copilot’s visualizations fall short. Detailed analyses, strategic messaging, and complex diagrams require precise crafting, which extends far beyond the capabilities of standard layouts. Human expertise is still necessary for the refinement and design of impactful presentations that resonate with audiences.
In essence, Copilot excels in creating first drafts but does not address the intricate work required for high-quality business presentations.
empower®: Addressing Key Requirements
This is where empower® comes in. Designed specifically to help businesses create presentations faster, more efficiently, and with brand consistency, empower® excels in addressing complex requirements.
- Comprehensive library: empower® provides a centrally managed library of professional templates and content that can be easily customized and is always up-to-date.
- Automated presentation creation: Users can define key presentation elements via a short form. With a single click, empower® generates a complete presentation based on these inputs, saving time and ensuring compliance with corporate guidelines.
- Automatic brand compliance: Every presentation automatically adheres to corporate design standards, eliminating the need for manual and time-consuming checks.
- Centralized template and asset management: Companies can store and manage all design assets—templates, images, icons, and slides—in one place, making them instantly accessible within PowerPoint. This ensures brand consistency and efficiency.
- Intuitive user interface: empower® simplifies PowerPoint for all users. Even complex tasks requiring advanced expertise can be completed effortlessly, thanks to its user-friendly interface and intuitive features.
Copilot Inspires, empower® Perfects
Together, Copilot and empower® create a powerful combination. While Copilot delivers initial drafts and sparks ideas, empower® provides tailored templates and tools to transform those drafts into professional presentations. empower® truly shines when meeting unique requirements like detailed analyses or strategic messaging.
By combining the strengths of both solutions, businesses can leverage AI-driven efficiency while ensuring their presentations meet the highest standards. empower® bridges the gap between drafting and delivering high-quality presentations, offering efficiency, consistency, and excellence—the ideal foundation for the future of presentation creation.
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