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>Which is how I learned that it's much better to ask ChatGPT to use Python evaluation mode and Pandoc and make you a PPTX, than trying to do anything with "Offi

• TeMPOraL 2y ago
  "I have this set of notes attached below; would you kindly group them by X and tabulate, and then use Python with Pandoc to make me a PowerPoint with that table in it, plus an extra slide with commentary from the notes?" Attach notes, paste, press Enter, wait half a minute, get back a PPTX you can build on, or just restyle[0]. Sure, it's faster to build the presentation yourself than to make ChatGPT make the whole thing for you. But the more time-consuming and boring parts, like making tables and diagrams and summaries from external data or notes, is something ChatGPT can do in a fraction of time, and can output directly into PPTX via Pandoc. (There's a lot of fun things you can do with official ChatGPT and Python integration. The other day I made it design, write and train a multi-layer perceptron for playing tic-tac-toe, because why waste my own GPU-seconds :).) -- [0] - In contrast, if you make the same request in PowerPoint's O365 Copilot, it'll barf. Last time I tried, it argued it has no capability to edit the document; the time before that, it made a new slide with text saying literally "data from the previous message".