How to Activate Designer in PowerPoint

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May 25, 2026

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Use this interactive demo to learn how to enable automatic design ideas in PowerPoint.

Quick summary

PowerPoint Designer automatically suggests professional slide layouts and design ideas as you build your presentation. Activating it takes under a minute via PowerPoint Options and instantly elevates your slide design workflow.

Steps

Open your PowerPoint presentation, then click the File tab.
Select Options from the bottom of the left-hand menu.
Under PowerPoint Designer, check "Automatically show me design ideas", then click OK to save and activate the feature.

📌 Why this matters

PowerPoint Designer is a built-in AI feature that instantly suggests professional slide layouts, saving users significant design time. Activating it unlocks automatic design ideas every time you add content to a slide, helping teams produce polished, visually consistent presentations without design expertise. For organizations using Microsoft 365, enabling Designer is a quick, high-impact productivity win. This demo shows exactly where the setting lives and how to turn it on in under a minute.

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