Agent Mode in PowerPoint now draws on Teams meetings and chats

When a meeting needs to become a slide deck, you can now point Agent Mode in PowerPoint straight at the Teams meeting or chat it came from. Copilot takes the conversation as context and builds a first draft from it. Two things are new: the reference now works in Agent Mode, and chats work as sources too. We’ve set out how to get started, the one prerequisite you’ll need, and where a second look still pays off.

 

Info Value: Faster first draft
UseCase UseCase: Post-meeting decks
Time Reading time: 3 minutes
Difficulty Difficulty: Beginner

Microsoft lists the feature for Windows, web and Mac, and places it within Agent Mode in PowerPoint. One prerequisite matters more than any other in practice, and it’s easily missed: Copilot can only draw on a past meeting if transcription was running at the time. No transcript, and there’s simply nothing for the slides to rest on. Teams chats are different the conversation already exists as text. The clearest gains are where meetings are the main working material: status calls, workshops, decision-making sessions.

  1. Make sure transcription is switched on in the Teams meeting. Without a transcript, the conversation won’t be available as a source afterwards. This step doesn’t apply to Teams chats.
  2. Open PowerPoint on Windows, the web or Mac and start Agent Mode in a new or existing presentation via Edit with Copilot.
  3. Describe what you want in the prompt, naming the Teams meeting or chat you’d like it to draw on.
  4. Press Enter. Copilot builds the deck from the referenced Teams content, ready for you to review and refine.
  • No transcript, no source: A meeting can only be referenced if transcription was running during the call. If something important is missing from the draft, check first whether a transcript exists at all.
  • Only what you can already see: Copilot draws solely on Teams content you have access to yourself. A chat you’re not part of won’t show up in the draft.
  • Screen for sensitive material: Meetings routinely contain names, unresolved disagreements, interim positions and client details. Go through the deck specifically for anything not meant for this audience.
  • A draft is a draft: We’d always check figures, ownership and decisions against the transcript or the meeting notes before the slides go anywhere.
  • Check availability: The feature is rolling out in stages. If you can’t see Agent Mode or the referencing option yet, that may come down to the rollout or to licensing in your environment.
  • You don’t have to explain it twice: If you’re already talking a presentation through in the meeting, much of it is in the transcript. Point Copilot at that call rather than describing the content again – and use the prompt only for whatever was left open.
  • Say the obvious things out loud: When it’s clear a meeting will turn into a presentation, name the audience, the occasion and the two or three key messages explicitly. Copilot can work with what’s in the transcript; what everyone silently assumed, it can’t.
  • Start small: Begin with a manageable meeting and a handful of slides. The draft stays reviewable, and you’ll see quickly where it needs sharpening.

The time a presentation takes rarely goes on the writing. It goes on everything before that: pulling the material together, then working out what actually belongs on the slides. Anyone who has sat in front of an empty deck after a long meeting knows the feeling. That’s the groundwork Copilot takes on, provided a transcript exists. What comes after is still your job — sharpening, weighting, cutting. But you’re no longer starting from nothing.