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How to turn a report into a presentation with AI

A quarterly report becomes an 8-slide deck with charts and speaker notes. What to upload, the one line worth writing, and what to check before you present.

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A report is written to be read; a presentation is made to be spoken over. Turning one into the other is mostly cutting: one point per slide, the figures drawn as charts, and what to say written underneath. This guide does it with Document to PPT on a real report and shows the slides that came back, unedited.

1. Give it the document

  • Upload the file — Word, PDF, a spreadsheet, an old .pptx — or paste a web address. Several files can go in together: a report and its spreadsheet make better charts than the report alone.
  • Scanned PDFs work too: pages without a text layer are read by the model (up to 20 pages).

2. Write one line about the talk

Who is it for and how long is it? That one line decides what is cut. For this example we wrote: “Turn this report into a 10-minute presentation for the Library Board meeting.”

3. What came back

Eight slides. Every number on the charts is in the document; the speaker notes say what to say on each slide. A few of them:

Document · Riverside Branch Library — Q3 2026 Report

Asked for · Turn this report into a 10-minute presentation for the Library Board meeting

Visits grew for the third quarter in a row
0500010,00015,00020,000Q3 2025Q2 2026Q3 202614,10015,90018,400visits
  • •Up 30% on Q3 2025 and 16% on last quarter
  • •E-book loans up 31% on last year, alongside 26,700 physical loans
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Speaker notes · Visits reached 18,400 this quarter, compared with 15,900 in Q2 and 14,100 a year ago. Loans grew too: 26,700 physical items and 9,800 e-books, with e-book loans up 31 percent on last year. This is the third consecutive quarter of growth.
Evening hours and the teen study room drove most of the growth
  • •Evening hours Tue–Thu to 9 pm since July brought 2,150 visits
  • •A third of evening visitors were aged 15–24
  • •Teen study room booked 92% of available hours in September
  • •Both services reach an age group we previously saw little of
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Speaker notes · The two changes we made this year are working. Evening hours, launched in July, brought 2,150 visits, a third of them from people aged 15 to 24. The teen study room was booked 92 percent of its available hours in September. Together they account for most of the growth.
Spending stayed within budget at $212,000 of $230,000
Staff · 71%Collections · 18%Programs · 7%Facilities · 4%
  • •$18,000 under the quarterly budget
  • •Staff costs make up about 71% of spending
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Speaker notes · We spent 212,000 dollars of the 230,000 quarterly budget, leaving 18,000 unspent. Staff accounted for 151,000, collections 38,000, programs 14,000 and facilities 9,000. The branch remains on a sound financial footing.
Three requests to the Board
  • •Approve $6,500 for a Wi-Fi upgrade before January
  • •Add a second weekly story time, about $3,200 a year in staff hours
  • •Recruit 6 more makerspace volunteers through the city volunteer portal
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Speaker notes · We ask the Board for three things. First, approve 6,500 dollars for a Wi-Fi upgrade before January, which fits within this quarter's underspend. Second, add a second weekly story time at roughly 3,200 dollars a year in staff hours to clear the waiting list. Third, support recruiting six more makerspace volunteers through the city volunteer portal so Saturday closures stop.

4. Check before you present

  • The numbers. Charts plot only figures from your sources, but the AI may work out a percentage from them — check any figure you did not see in the document.
  • What was cut. A 10-minute talk leaves things out on purpose; make sure nothing you must say went with them.
  • Edit any slide yourself or ask the AI to change it, then download .pptx or print to PDF.

Turn your document into slides →

Then, keep going

A deck from one line, no document →PPT templates with complete examples →Meeting notes from a recording →