Alright, so the Claude add-in for PowerPoint. Now, like the other add-ins that we’ve looked at, the goal of this add-in is to keep your interactions with PowerPoint really snappy, really quick, so that it can make the edits you need in a timely fashion. You could do all that of what I’m about to show you in the Claw desktop app. However, you’ll end up with a bit of a clunky experience there because you’re gonna say, hey, go make these changes.

It’s gonna generate a whole new doc. You gotta download that doc, open it, review what it’s done, and then continue that conversation, right? You gotta send another prompt, download the next file, review it. The add-in makes it really quick. It’s gonna make changes in front of you, live no need to change the document or close it or reopen or any of that stuff. It’s gonna happen kind of right in front of you and it’ll give you information about what it’s doing as well.

And so I’ve got a classic sales deck here that I had Claude go and generate because it’s just a demo. And so I’ll come in here and click my Claude add in at the top right and that’ll open out Claude and here is where you can go back and forth with it. Now you might see there it’s got slide one selected so this is a little extra context it has and so if I say update you know update this text from August to September it’s going to know hey Kane’s on this slide I’ll go make that slide that update there if it’s on other slides it’ll also figure out like oh hey this is actually a foot of it’s in everything I’ll just go make those updates and it’ll tell me it’s gone and done that but it’s this is where you can you know without having to say on slide one please do blah if you just have some stuff selected and say you know changes the Claude team it’s going to know oh hey Kane’s actually got some text selected in this slide as well I’ll go and change that so in this classic contrived example I’ve got this PowerPoint isn’t in the Lancer colors right it’s not in our style guide and so we do have a style guide here at Lancer and it looks like like this.

So it’s got some icons, you know, what fonts we use, the kinds of language we like, some of the, some of the, you know, some of the actually iconography that we use. Perfect. That’s cool. I am terrible at PowerPoint. I’m, I just don’t, I don’t have that skill, right? I’m a design mind for it. So what I can do is I I can actually pull that PDF in and drop it in here and say something really generic like, apply the style guide to this PowerPoint.

It’s gonna go and read that PDF. It’s gonna strip out a bunch of information and it’s gonna apply what it thinks should be done here. Now our style guide has some things like headers should be like this and we use colors and bolding like this. And so it’s gonna interpret that because again, that style guide doesn’t say like in PowerPoint, you know, headings should be like this.

And, you know, you know, this is the format we use for footers or anything like that, just as color and font and sizing it’s gonna interpret it as best it can. So if it gets something wrong, I can continue this conversation and say, “Hey, you know, you applied the wrong kind of bolding here. We should change it like this.” Again, if it’s something that it recognizes is also flowing into other pages, it’ll go and make that change across multiple pages.

It might ask me if I wanna do that. But ultimately, it’s kind of it’s designed to go and do those next steps as well and if it didn’t i could tell it to so you know kind of in control no matter what um so it’s going to read through now this might take a minute because it is extracting a full pdf and making changes in powerpoint powerpoint is an incredibly crazy file format so it might take a minute there so bear with me There’s some weirdness happening in PowerPoint.

Okay, brilliant. So it’s gonna overcome all of that. Evaluating navy color palette for consistency, figuring out visual element recoloring. So it’s going through the process here and I’ll let that go. But at the same time, here we go. Okay, so that’s pulling out some, it’s not quite good, this yellow still is in our style. Okay, so it’s come back and said, hey, I wanna do something that maybe is a little destructive.

Are you cool with that? And for things like this, it’s often going to give you the options for either deny, Dangerously allow all the time, which is essentially like always just accept this or allow it once. Now, because I need to do demos, I’m going to hit allow once, but we use SharePoint here. So in theory, I could just let it go crazy. And every time I save it, it’s going to save that inversion, right?

So I can roll back that way if I had to, but I’ll hit allow once so that I keep getting this pop-up. Now it’s moved that slide down. For what purpose? I don’t really know yet. And honestly, it’s not that important. I just, I’ll let it go, let it finish its task and I’ll figure out like, if it doesn’t move back, hey, what the heck’s going on there, right?

Okay, cool, yeah, I wanna move things again. Fine, so it’s doing this weird thing where it keeps like pulling the slide it’s working onto the top. Whatever, you know, how it works doesn’t matter to me. The idea is I don’t have to do this heavy lifting myself, so fine. Yep, cool, yeah. New stuff around, that’s great. Okay, so it’s applied the Lanter green there. That’s good. You can see it’s also doing that, applying that green color elsewhere.

Perfect. I’ll be interested to see whether it puts the Lanter logo anywhere. That’ll be an interesting one. You know, we tend to have it like in the bottom somewhere. Okay. It’s got the slides back in the right order so that’s good. Okay so it didn’t add the logo in anywhere. Okay that’s cool. I might want it there. I might not continue that conversation to have it go and make those changes.

But you can see they’re like, it’s done a pretty good job of using things that, you know, these icons look like our icons and in that style guide, it didn’t have a database icon. And so it’s done a pretty good job there. Now some of this, you know, green on, on, you know, dark blue text, you know, I think Phil might have some thoughts on that. But again, I could go on a chat with him, come back and tell it, “Hey, go update that.” So that’s pretty cool.

So that’s the plugin for PowerPoint. Actually, one thing to call out though is this isn’t just applying changes, right? And this isn’t just telling it to make changes and having it go and do that have it do research here too. So if I see this thing as this foundations, you know, SEO and skim, you know, it’s like a bit wordy, or maybe I’ve read something that they’re getting rid of that.

I can come in here and ask it to do things. Now I’d probably start a new chat, which is this little icon up here. And I can say things like, you know, go research whether they are removing skim from the enterprise plant. And it’ll go away and do that research, right? It’s going to come back with an answer. It’s not going to make any changes, but it’s going to come back with an answer.

And then I can, you know, if need be, I can say, okay, cool, we’ll update the slide to reflect that. On an internal use case, that might be, okay, I’ve got the latest pricing now in SharePoint, this template’s actually out of date. Go grab that latest pricing, update the template. And so it can do some of that work. So don’t think it’s just a, you know, you point and push and tell it like, hey, go fix this, go change that, do some research on the side and then pull those in.

Again that just speeds up your cadence for getting that information. You could go back to the desktop app to do that search or you just do it here. So that’s it on the PowerPoint Claude add-in. Hopefully that was useful. Let’s move on to the next.