Claude Code How to use Microsoft PowerPoint with Claude Code
You want Microsoft PowerPoint inside Claude Code so it can create presentations from a written brief, review slide content and speaker notes, add slides to an existing deck, and prepare and update speaker notes — without you copy-pasting between tabs. Here is the whole setup, once.
Create your Microsoft PowerPoint gateway
The gateway is the thing Claude Code connects to, and it is where you decide which Microsoft PowerPoint tools an agent may use. You create it once and every client reuses it.
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Create an Arcade account
Sign up and open the dashboard. The free tier is enough to follow this through.
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Create an MCP Gateway and select your Microsoft PowerPoint tools
In the dashboard, create a gateway and pick the Microsoft PowerPoint tools you want to expose. The gateway is what your client connects to, and it is where tool access is decided.
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Copy your gateway URL
Every client below needs it.
https://api.arcade.dev/mcp/<YOUR-GATEWAY-SLUG>
Connect the gateway to Claude Code
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Add the gateway as a remote HTTP MCP server
claude mcp add arcade --transport http "<YOUR_ARCADE_GATEWAY_URL>"
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Verify it was added
claude mcp get arcade claude mcp list
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Try it out
Open Claude Code in your project and ask it to use one of your Microsoft PowerPoint tools.
Full Claude Code guide in the docs steps verified 2026-08-13
Get started with these PowerPoint prompts
Claude Code can now act on your Microsoft PowerPoint account. Click a prompt to copy it.
Use permissions to separate reading presentations from creating slides or changing speaker notes. Pair it with Contextual Access policies so an agent can inspect a deck without being allowed to modify it.
