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How to use Microsoft PowerPoint with Cursor

You want Microsoft PowerPoint inside Cursor 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 Cursor 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 Cursor

Heads up

Cursor does not refresh MCP OAuth tokens automatically. For a persistent connection, set Authorization to “Arcade Headers” on the gateway in the dashboard.

Open MCP settings

Command Palette (⌘⇧P / Ctrl+Shift+P) → Open MCP Settings, then click “New MCP Server”.

Add the gateway to mcpServers

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-arcade": {
      "url": "https://api.arcade.dev/mcp/<YOUR-GATEWAY-SLUG>"
    }
  }
}

Try it out

Ask Cursor to use one of your Microsoft PowerPoint tools.

Full Cursor guide in the docs steps verified 2026-08-13

Get started with these PowerPoint prompts

Cursor 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 Cursor

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 Cursor

Open MCP settings

Add the gateway to mcpServers

Try it out

Get started with these PowerPoint prompts

Ready to actually ship your agent?