Pptx

Overview

This skill provides three primary workflows for PowerPoint manipulation: creating from scratch, editing existing presentations, and using templates.

Quick Start

from pptx import Presentation
from pptx.util import Inches, Pt

prs = Presentation()

# Add title slide
title_slide = prs.slides.add_slide(prs.slide_layouts[0])
title_slide.shapes.title.text = "My Presentation"
title_slide.placeholders[1].text = "By Claude"

prs.save("presentation.pptx")

When to Use

• Creating automated presentation reports
• Building slide decks from data
• Generating pitch presentations
• Converting HTML content to slides
• Adding charts and tables to presentations
• Batch processing multiple presentations
• Updating existing presentations programmatically
• Creating consistent branded presentations from templates

Version History

• 1.1.0 (2026-01-02): Added Quick Start, When to Use, Execution Checklist, Error Handling, Metrics sections; updated frontmatter with version, category, related_skills
• 1.0.0 (2024-10-15): Initial release with python-pptx, templates, OOXML editing

Sub-Skills

• Execution Checklist
• Error Handling
• Metrics
• Quick Reference
• Dependencies

Sub-Skills

• Basic Creation with python-pptx (+3)
• Before Writing Code (+1)
• Read and Modify (+2)
• Apply Template
• Unpack Presentation (+2)