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> I recently tried Claude Cowork for PowerPoint and I was stunned by the content as well as design quality of the deck it produced. That's a threat for Microsof
by d3Xt3r 6mo ago
> I recently tried Claude Cowork for PowerPoint and I was stunned by the content as well as design quality of the deck it produced. That's a threat for Microsoft because now you don't need the editing tools of PowerPoint, AI replaces it, so all you need is the presentation mode of PowerPoint.
Actually, someone here posted a Claude Code skill recently that generates a presentation as a self-contained HTML5 file, so all you need is a browser.
PowerPoint, as a whole, is doomed.
- jason_zig 6mo agoI'm not sure that's true - try getting someone to pull up an html5 file on their computer for a presentation...
- raincole 6mo agoYou mean like, double-click?
- apsurd 6mo agoyou must never have actually done this. it doesn't work the way you think it does. unless it's self contained (like a pp), you can't expect network access to actually deliver when you need it most.
- DrSAR 6mo agohrm, double-click and your browser does the rest. For added benefit, full screen? Until you need presenter notes or other niceties, this covers a large space of usage.
- apsurd 6mo agoyou could do that for the past 20 years. i've always hated slides as a medium for anything, but i've been proven wrong tine and again that people love their pp.
- bad_haircut72 6mo agoBecause it was drag and drop interface. This existed for HTML but because web pages got too complicated, so did the WYSIWYGs. By just being a program to show slides, the editing experience was manageable for anyone. But if you can hust type what you want to happen into claude, editng experience doesnt matter as much/at all
- basch 6mo agoOr you could just talk to powerpoint, which creates a self contained pptx, which also plays anywhere. we've hit this point where its cool to have claude reinvent every wheel just because it can.
- d3Xt3r 6mo agoIt's not self-contained, it requires PowerPoint to be indfled. Which is not an issue on corporate machines of course, but maybe you want to do a presentation for a general/broader audience.
- alternatex 6mo agoOffice, or rather Microsoft 365 applications have had web versions for a decade now.
- d3Xt3r 6mo agoThat's besides the point though. With a self-contained HTML, you don't need to go to a special website, you don't need an account or sign-in, heck you don't even need the Internet, and it works pretty much on every device that supports HTML5.
- basch 6mo agoa solution in search of a problem. everyone can open a powerpoint in google docs, hotmail, libreoffice etc. now the person receiving the file has a DIFFERENT experience than they are used to with every other presentation. different hotkeys, different troubleshooting.
- hgoel 6mo agoPowerpoint will continue to persist because other people need to be able to edit your slide deck without understanding your HTML. My employer blocks office plugins, so I can't try Claude for PowerPoint, but sometimes I get Claude to generate Python scripts, which produce PowerPoint slides via python-pptx. This also benefits from being able to easily read and generate figures from raw data. I don't really like the way Claude tends to format slides (too much marketing speak and flowcharts), but it has good ideas often enough that it's still worth it to me. So I treat this as a starting point and replace the bad parts.
- usrme 6mo agoI'd love to get a link to that comment/post!
- d3Xt3r 6mo agohttps://github.com/shawnzam/keynot https://github.com/shawnzam/keynot