Daily Blog #803: Getting Chat GPT 4o to make fancy powepoints

 

Hello Reader,

Yesterday, when I shared my presentation, I mentioned that while I conducted all the research myself, I used ChatGPT-4o to create all of the slides.

Why? Because I have absolutely no artistic skills—but I did have all the technical knowledge I wanted to communicate. If you’re like me and want your presentations to look like you hired a professional designer, here’s how I made it happen.

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Step 1: Tell It What You Want

I started by describing the scope of the presentation:

Create a slideshow presentation about Windows Hello forensics complete with graphics 

and text.

It should cover how to perform forensics on the Windows 11 Hello security feature.

Include slides on:

- History of Hello  
- The historical forensic challenge of identifying who is at the keyboard  
- A list of Windows Hello authentication methods  
- Where in the registry to find which authentication methods are enabled  
- What the event logs show for:
    - PIN login  
    - Fingerprint login  
    - Facial scan login  
- Where Windows Hello data is stored  
- How the stored data is protected  
- How the data can be accessed  

Also, include any other slides you think would be interesting.

It responded with a detailed outline of the slide contents—a sort of text storyboard. 

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Step 2: Ask for the Presentation

So I followed up with: 

Turn this into a PowerPoint presentation with graphics you create for each slide.

This generated text-only slides. So I clarified further:

Yes, I would like all of the above as you find them most useful.

Generate all relevant graphics and insert them into the slides. 

Also give it a cyberpunk theme.

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Step 3: Let It Build

It generated the first image, and I simply told it:

Finish all the slides and provide me the updated PPT with the graphics added in.

I had to say “continue” a couple of times to get it to finish the entire deck—but that was it! Afterward, I went in and added relevant technical facts, and the presentation was complete.

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Looking back, I probably could have done it all in one prompt if I had been more specific. Still, I’m incredibly happy with the results—and I didn’t need any design skills to get there.