Short Version
Copilot in PowerPoint can now create interactive slides: full-slide visuals your audience can click through to reveal steps, context and data. Start from the new Interactive Slide button on the ribbon or the Create Interactive Slide skill in Copilot. Anyone you share with can explore them without a Copilot licence. Due mid to late October 2026.
Details
A new Copilot skill in PowerPoint, called Create Interactive Slide, builds full-slide visuals that you and your audience can explore. You describe the story you want to tell, and Copilot creates a slide people can click through to reveal context, steps or data points. It’s designed for things that are hard to get across on a static slide, such as complex ideas, timelines, comparisons, systems and data.
Creating an interactive slide
- Select Interactive Slide on the Home or Insert tab of the ribbon to open Copilot, or choose Create Interactive Slide from the Copilot skills list.
- Pick a suggested type (Summary, Timeline, Dashboard or Comparison) or select Custom and describe what you want. The more specific your prompt, the closer the result will be to your story.
- You can base a slide on your existing work, such as a dashboard built from an Excel workbook or a timeline from a project document. This uses Work IQ (the layer that gives Copilot context from your work files).
Changing an interactive slide
You change interactive slides by asking Copilot, not by editing the slide directly. Keep the Copilot pane open and ask for changes, such as switching to a bar chart, adding a filter or matching your theme colours. On Mac and iPad, any other content on the slide appears behind the interactive content.
Presenting and sharing
- Presenting: you can interact with the slide as you present, for example expanding a step, filtering a chart or moving through a timeline. This works in slide show and presenter view on Windows, the web and iPad. On Mac, they work in slide show but not yet in presenter view.
- Teams meetings: when you present with PowerPoint Live, each attendee interacts with the slide on their own, so they don’t see what you or anyone else selects. Microsoft plans to sync this across the meeting in a future update.
- Sharing: people you share the presentation with can explore the slides without a Copilot licence.
- Phones, printing and PDFs: on iPhone and Android, and when you print or export to PDF, interactive slides appear as still images.
- Resetting: when you reopen the file, interactive slides go back to their starting layout.
Keyboard use
The left and right arrow keys always move between slides. Press Tab to move into the interactive content and through its parts, then press Esc (or Tab past the last part) to return to PowerPoint. Focus never moves into the interactive content on its own. Microsoft says some keyboard behaviour on Mac and the web will improve.
What you need
The skill is available to anyone with Copilot Premium in PowerPoint.
Availability
Due mid to late October 2026. Attendee interaction in PowerPoint Live in Teams is available now.
Source, related links and references
Learn more: Create interactive slides with Copilot in PowerPoint.
See what else is new for PowerPoint and Copilot.
For Admins
No admin action required. There are no admin controls for this skill; anyone with an appropriate Copilot licence can use it. Interactive slides run in a sandboxed view (a sealed-off space) that doesn’t connect to other content or services. MC1461152.
Page originally published
17th October 2026.
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