PowerPoints
Lab 2.2: PowerPoints
Section titled “Lab 2.2: PowerPoints”Process PPTX to structured content
Start the Lab
Section titled “Start the Lab” Process PowerPoint presentations
/CC.m2.lb2 What You’ll Learn
Section titled “What You’ll Learn”- Explain why speaker notes often contain more valuable content than slide text and how to prioritise their extraction during presentation processing
- Demonstrate the pptx skill to extract slide content and speaker notes from PowerPoint presentations whilst preserving narrative flow and slide structure
- Evaluate which visual elements require manual description versus which can be noted as placeholders, making informed decisions about processing completeness
Key Concepts
Section titled “Key Concepts”| Concept | Description |
|---|---|
| Speaker Notes | Hidden presentation content containing explanations, context, and examples not visible on slides |
| Visual Element Inventory | A systematic list of slides containing images, charts, or diagrams that require manual review |
| Two-Output Approach | Creating both a full extraction for detailed reference and a condensed summary for quick access |
| YAML Frontmatter | Metadata at the document start capturing presentation context such as date, audience, and tags |
| pptx Skill | Claude Code capability for extracting text and speaker notes from PowerPoint presentations |
What You’ll Create
Section titled “What You’ll Create”pitch-deck-content.md- Structured content extraction
Eureka Moment
Section titled “Eureka Moment”“Wait, the speaker notes had all the detail I needed - I never even looked at those before!”
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