How to connect Microsoft PowerPoint to Claude

Connect Claude Web, Desktop and Cowork to Microsoft PowerPoint MCP. Create a presentation from a project brief, find presentations containing quarterly revenue slides, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

Microsoft PowerPoint logoMicrosoft PowerPoint
Oauth2

Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation app for creating and delivering slide decks. It helps teams turn ideas into polished, visual stories with flexible design tools.

28 Tools

Introduction

Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant, available on the web, in the desktop app, and on mobile. Cowork is its agent for knowledge work, and it runs on all of those surfaces too. Connected to your apps, Claude can work with your files and services to accomplish complex tasks on your behalf.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Microsoft PowerPoint account to Claude via Composio Connect, enabling it to create a presentation from a project brief, find presentations containing quarterly revenue slides, add speaker notes to the launch deck, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

Setup is the same on Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork, and you only need to do it once. The connector is tied to your account, so it's available in all three.

Also integrate Microsoft PowerPoint with

Connecting Microsoft PowerPoint to Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork

Two ways to add the Composio connector. Pick whichever you prefer.

1. Add with one click

Click the button. Claude opens with the Composio connector filled in. Click Add, then go to step 2.

Add to Claude

Add manually

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

Claude Desktop connectors screen with Add custom connector selected

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

bash
https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
Add custom connector dialog with Composio MCP server URL

2. Authorize in your browser

Click Connect. You'll be redirected to a browser window where you can authorize Composio to continue.

Composio authorization screen for Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork

3. Connect your Microsoft PowerPoint account

Back in Claude, ask it to connect to Microsoft PowerPoint or give it any Microsoft PowerPoint-related task.

For example, ask Claude to:

  • "Create a presentation from a project brief"
  • "Find presentations containing quarterly revenue slides"
  • "Add speaker notes to the launch deck"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Claude, and your Microsoft PowerPoint account is ready to use.

What is the Microsoft PowerPoint Claude Connector, and what's possible with it?

The Microsoft PowerPoint MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Microsoft PowerPoint account. It provides structured and secure access to your presentations and related OneDrive files, so your agent can create, inspect, edit, share, and organize presentations on your behalf.

  • Create and update presentations: Have your agent build new PPTX presentations with structured slides, titles, bullets, tables, images, and speaker notes, or update existing slide content, text, order, and document properties.
  • Find and understand slide content: Let the agent search for PowerPoint files, inspect presentation metadata, read slide text and notes, review shapes, tables, images, hyperlinks, alt text, layouts, and retrieve presentation thumbnails.
  • Manage presentation files: Direct your agent to upload, download, copy, rename, move, organize, or delete PowerPoint files and folders, including exporting presentations as PDF or JPG.
  • Share presentations with others: Instruct your agent to create view or edit sharing links and grant named people read or write access to a presentation.
  • Work with presentation versions: Have your agent check presentations in or out, list and inspect retained versions, download a previous version, or restore one as the current version.

Troubleshooting

1. Why does Claude not use the Composio connector for Microsoft PowerPoint?

The connector can show as connected, but Claude must use it in each Microsoft PowerPoint conversation.

  • Click + at the lower left of the chat, or type /.
  • Hover Connectors.
  • Turn on Composio.
  • Ask Claude to connect to Microsoft PowerPoint again.

2. Why does Claude show an MCP server error before Microsoft PowerPoint connects?

Claude can show Couldn't reach the MCP server or Authorization with the MCP server failed when you add the connector for Microsoft PowerPoint.

  • Check that the connector URL is https://connect.composio.dev/mcp.
  • Connectors run from Anthropic's cloud, so your device network is usually not the problem.
  • Add the connector again from Customize > Connectors, then ask Claude to connect Microsoft PowerPoint.
  • If it fails again, send the error and the ofid_ reference id to support@composio.dev.

3. Why does the Microsoft PowerPoint authorization link not work?

The Composio connector is one server. Your Microsoft PowerPoint account connects separately when Claude asks for it.

  • If the browser does not open, or the link expires, ask Claude to retry the Microsoft PowerPoint connection.
  • Composio creates a fresh Microsoft PowerPoint authorization link.
  • Open that link in your browser and finish the Microsoft PowerPoint sign-in.

4. Why do Microsoft PowerPoint actions fail after they worked before?

The Microsoft PowerPoint connection can expire or lose permission.

  • Ask Claude to inspect the Microsoft PowerPoint connection.
  • If the connection is unhealthy, disconnect it when Claude prompts you.
  • Reconnect the Microsoft PowerPoint account and retry the action.
  • If Claude shows a permission prompt, approve it before Claude changes data in Microsoft PowerPoint.
  • If the action still fails with a permission error, check that the connected account has that permission in Microsoft PowerPoint itself.

5. How do I switch to a different Microsoft PowerPoint account?

Claude can manage the Microsoft PowerPoint connection for you.

  • Ask Claude to disconnect or delete the current Microsoft PowerPoint account.
  • Ask Claude to connect Microsoft PowerPoint again.
  • Open the new Composio authorization link for Microsoft PowerPoint.
  • Sign in with the other Microsoft PowerPoint account in the browser.
  • After the account connects, ask Claude to retry the Microsoft PowerPoint task.

6. Why is my Microsoft PowerPoint connection missing in Claude Desktop or on a Team plan?

The connector belongs to your Claude account, so your Microsoft PowerPoint connection works in Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork.

  • In Claude Desktop, open Customize > Connectors.
  • Next to Composio, click ⋮ and click Clear cache.
  • If Microsoft PowerPoint tools still do not appear, click ⋮, disconnect, remove the connector, and add it again.
  • On Team or Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner must enable the connector before you can connect Microsoft PowerPoint.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Microsoft PowerPoint action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Check In Presentation

Check in a checked-out PowerPoint DriveItem and make its version available according to the SharePoint/document-library configuration.

Check Out Presentation

Check out a PowerPoint DriveItem where its SharePoint/document-library configuration supports checkout, preventing others from editing and hiding changes until check-in.

Copy Presentation

Start an asynchronous Microsoft Graph copy of a PowerPoint presentation.

Copy Presentation and Wait

Submit a PowerPoint presentation copy with a required unique filename, then boundedly search the resolved destination folder for an exact-name candidate.

Create Folder

Create a folder for PowerPoint files in the current or an explicitly selected accessible drive.

Create Presentation

Create a bounded macro-free PPTX from one to 50 structured slides containing titles, plain text, nested bullets, rectangular tables, uploaded PNG images, and optional speaker notes.

Create Presentation Sharing Link

Create or return a view or edit sharing link for a PowerPoint presentation in the current or an explicitly selected drive.

Delete Folder

Move a folder to the Microsoft Graph recycle bin after a metadata preflight proves the DriveItem has a folder facet.

Delete Presentation

Move a PowerPoint presentation to the Microsoft Graph recycle bin.

Download Presentation

Download a PowerPoint file in its original format or export it as PDF or JPG.

Download Presentation Version

Verify that the selected DriveItem is a PPTX, then download one retained previous version as a bounded PPTX file.

Fill PowerPoint Template

Create one presentation from an existing designed PPTX template by replacing unique literal {{tokens}} simultaneously across reachable slides and speaker notes.

Find Presentations

List a folder or search a drive and return only PowerPoint files.

Get Current Drive

Return the signed-in user's default OneDrive ID and basic owner, type, and quota details.

Get Presentation

Return metadata for one PowerPoint file by item ID, including its current eTag for concurrency-safe updates.

Get Presentation Content

Read bounded, text-first semantic content from a current macro-free PPTX, including slides, shapes, text, safe hyperlinks, alt text, image metadata, tables, and speaker notes.

Get Presentation Layouts

Download and validate the current macro-free PPTX, then return its complete bounded slide-layout catalog.

Get Presentation Thumbnails

List generated thumbnail metadata for a PowerPoint presentation.

Get Presentation Version

Retrieve compact metadata for one retained or current version of a PowerPoint file.

Invite People to Presentation

Grant named people read or write access to a PowerPoint presentation.

List Presentation Versions

List retained versions of a PowerPoint file in Microsoft Graph's newest-first order, one provider page at a time.

Replace Presentation File

Replace the bytes of an existing PowerPoint DriveItem with a valid, non-macro-enabled PPTX package no larger than 250 MiB, optionally requiring a matching eTag.

Restore Presentation Version

Restore a retained previous version of a PowerPoint presentation as a new current version while preserving its version history.

Transform Presentation Text and Properties

Transform text, slide order, or embedded core document properties inside a macro-free PPTX, then conditionally replace the same file.

Update Presentation Content Destructively

Atomically update one macro-free PPTX with at least one irreversible delete operation, under an exact eTag and one conditional upload.

Update Presentation Content Safely

Atomically update one macro-free PPTX without delete operations, under an exact eTag and one conditional upload.

Update Presentation Metadata

Update Microsoft Graph DriveItem metadata or path only: rename a PowerPoint presentation, move it within its current drive, or set supported filesystem metadata.

Upload New Presentation

Create a new PPTX in a Microsoft Graph drive folder, with configurable filename-conflict behavior.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Microsoft PowerPoint MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Microsoft PowerPoint tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Microsoft PowerPoint and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Claude Cowork fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Microsoft PowerPoint tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Microsoft PowerPoint scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Microsoft PowerPoint data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

Start with Microsoft PowerPoint.It takes 30 seconds.

Managed auth, hosted MCP servers, and every Microsoft PowerPoint tool your agent needs.Free to start.

Start building