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Dear all,

Thank you for taking the time to read my message.

I am currently working on automating part of my workflow, especially the slides that I prepare on a weekly basis.

Every Monday, I copy the same PowerPoint file from the previous week in the SharePoint environment. I then rename it — for example, “Weekly #2 – 2026.03.23” — and the following week I increase the number and update the date accordingly. Inside the presentation, I also update the first slide with this information and refresh the planning by removing the 7 columns corresponding to the previous week and adding 7 new ones.

Do you have any suggestions on how I could automate this process?

I started experimenting in a SharePoint sandbox to get familiar with triggers, retrieving file content, and creating new files, but I quickly reached the limits of my knowledge and I’m not sure how feasible this is.

Thank you again.

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Hi @RD-23031517-0,

You can automate most of your weekly PowerPoint workflow with Power Automate, but not 100% with native actions. Power Automate can easily copy and rename the PPTX file in SharePoint on a weekly schedule. However, editing the slide contents (title/date) and updating the planning columns is not supported natively. For those steps, you have two working options:

Plumsail Documents: lets you create a PPTX template and automatically populate text/placeholders and regenerate slides based on your data. (This is similar to their automated PPTX generation examples.)

Power Automate Desktop (PAD): can open PowerPoint and perform UI automation to update the first slide and remove/add columns, but requires desktop flow licensing. Community examples note that slide editing is the only part not easily doable in cloud flows.

So the ideal setup is:
Scheduled flow → copy/rename PPTX → (Plumsail or PAD) update slides → save back to SharePoint.

Refs:
https://plumsail.com/docs/documents/v1.x/user-guide/processes/examples/create-pptx-from-sharepoint-list.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftFlow/comments/146orke/create_new_powerpoint_convert_last_weeks_to_pdf/

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