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Power Platform and the AI Revolution

By : Aaron Guilmette
Book Image

Power Platform and the AI Revolution

By: Aaron Guilmette

Overview of this book

In this AI era, employing leading machine learning and AI models such as ChatGPT for responding to customer feedback and prototyping applications is crucial to drive business success in the competitive market. This book is an indispensable guide to integrating cutting-edge technology into business operations and leveraging AI to analyze sentiment at scale, helping free up valuable time to enhance customer relationships. Immerse yourself in the future of AI-enabled application development by working with Power Automate, Power Apps, and the new Copilot Studio. With this book, you’ll learn foundational AI concepts as you explore the extensive capabilities of the low-code Power Platform. You’ll see how Microsoft's advanced machine learning technologies can streamline common business tasks such as extracting key data elements from customer documents, reviewing customer emails, and validating passports and drivers’ licenses. The book also guides you in harnessing the power of generative AI to expedite tasks like creating executive summaries, building presentations, and analyzing resumes. You’ll build apps using natural language prompting and see how ChatGPT can be used to power chatbots in your organization. By the end of this book, you’ll have charted your path to developing your own reusable AI automation patterns to propel your business operations into the future.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Creating a PowerPoint template

Before you execute any flows, you need to create a template so that the Populate PowerPoint action has something to manipulate. For this example, we’ll just use a single slide in the template file.

To create a simple template file, follow these steps:

  1. Launch PowerPoint and select New. You can either choose Blank Presentation or use a themed template file:
Figure 7.7 – Creating a new template file

Figure 7.7 – Creating a new template file

  1. Edit the content of the file, placing it in the tokens you identified earlier. You can apply formatting such as bolding or italics to the tokens:
Figure 7.8 – Updating the template with the content tokens

Figure 7.8 – Updating the template with the content tokens

  1. Save the document in a SharePoint or OneDrive for Business site:
Figure 7.9 – Saving a PowerPoint template file

Figure 7.9 – Saving a PowerPoint template file

With that done, it’s time to start building our flow!