Copilot Studio

How to use Microsoft PowerPoint with Copilot Studio

You want Microsoft PowerPoint inside Copilot Studio 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 Copilot Studio 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.

Create an Arcade account

Sign up and open the dashboard. The free tier is enough to follow this through.
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.
Copy your gateway URL

Every client below needs it.
```
https://api.arcade.dev/mcp/<YOUR-GATEWAY-SLUG>
```

Create a Microsoft PowerPoint gateway Opens the gateway builder in your Arcade dashboard.

Connect the gateway to Copilot Studio

Heads up

Needs a Microsoft 365 subscription with access to Copilot Studio, plus an Arcade API key.

Add an MCP tool to your agent

In Copilot Studio, open your agent → Tools → Add a tool → Model Context Protocol → New tool.
Point it at your gateway

Give the server a name and description, put your gateway URL in Server URL, set Authentication to OAuth 2.0 and Type to Dynamic discovery.
Authorize and try it out

Saving redirects you to Arcade to approve access. Then start a conversation and use your Microsoft PowerPoint tools — Arcade authorizes each service just in time.

Full Copilot Studio guide in the docs steps verified 2026-08-13

Get started with these PowerPoint prompts

Copilot Studio 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.

How to use Microsoft PowerPoint with Copilot Studio

Create your Microsoft PowerPoint gateway

Create an Arcade account

Create an MCP Gateway and select your Microsoft PowerPoint tools

Copy your gateway URL

Connect the gateway to Copilot Studio

Add an MCP tool to your agent

Point it at your gateway

Authorize and try it out

Get started with these PowerPoint prompts

Ready to actually ship your agent?