You're getting better but the product still has many frustrating parts. For instance the open folder is now gone on this version and on other versions I use with different customers, it's there and useful. The library of icons and art that you can use is also lacking. Why don't you allow all the types of icons that Visio uses? It would make it usable. Also, the section part is great but it's clumbsy and when you open you always have to collapse. Why can't you select a flag that lets you open collapsed. that would make the tool much more usable. Integration with teams is still terrible and with email if the product is open, you can't send the file. Why? just version it and send. Theres' much more but it's useful but not a product that has the power of things like Lucid, or visio, but it could be much more usable, so you get a three for teasing me with function and ideas, then falling short when I try to use it my way as the main unit. It's keeping this type of work, design and developent documentation, a dark art...who knows maybe AI might help you.

I have to admit, it was a bit overwhelming when I had to figure out how to use this wonderful beast but after a few hours, I was right there creating a eye catching slide presentation. THe ability to put in multimedia increases it's value but then I could say that aabout all the other sections in PPT. The slide ideas helped quite a bit, I didn't get a chance to try the addons but they looked fun and easy to use. I loved your "incredible" learning tools, even though I had a manual I found it to be complete and helpful. I did get frustrated working with others on the multiple versions that you have come out with over the years. I asked for help and the responder asked for things that have changed recently or for another reason that I dont't necessarily understand. We managed in the end. I love the way the ribbon works for all of the Microsoft Applications. I had the most difficulty with Excel because of all the meticulus requirements that this software requires to do it's thing. I took longer than the others: Word and PPT to master but it was so worth it, now I can manage a budget, leep track of my inventory and the list goes on and on of all the applications I could use it for! It's exciting to complete these three because I want to learn Acces nexts and the files I made with Excel and Word will be used together for a whole new world of applications that I can do with this challenging and exciting learning experiance, I now find myself in the market for employment, before this I had no marketable skills. You changed my life, I am sure your rolling your eyes right now, but I am a disabled Veteran and have been unable to find a job that could use me with no skills. So, Yeah, it is a big, no huge opportunity and I want to say Good Job to all you Microsoft workers that have made all this possible. I apologize for my spainess, is that a word?

First off, it's a much better product than years past, that's for sure. Having said that, there are a lot of things I would change.If there's a way to add text styles in a styles panel like you have in word, that would be great! Page or slide numbers are annoying at best. Also the edit capabilities of the graphs are not the best. I would also like to see better quick key commands for better efficiency. For example, you have a keyboard shortcut to size text, but not to change the text alignment, or to group objects or to reorder those objects. Also if it can just work a little bit better on a Mac as it does on a PC, that would make my life worth living.

I am a slow poke, or as my mom says, “ a late bloomer “.. Having issues in solving the complex knots threaded throughout the MS Core Office tooling. But PowerPoint, barely messed with it, even through schooling. I see now that it is integral. I just wish it there was, simpler? Straight-forward? I even feel like the more I get into it the less I begin to understand~that I do not understand. I am wanting to use web data, and other analytics to create the loop for a service feedback through MS Core Office Tooling. I am a student & developer, ‘not student-developer’. I own a business, a bagel shop to be specific, and I am trying to drum up consciousness technologies. I know it all sounds a bit…. How do you say?, much! Termplates for one should be available for bulk downloads. Copilot chat should be ‘connectable’ or transferable to another office window, like, and I am only just now thinking about this as I type…. So your screen, you can dive up into 3 windows. Now would if you could hook your windows together, and have a single chat interface that bridges the two (still operating) individual chat interfaces… Y’’all hiring? haha.Thanks again.

To my knowledge, this is mainly an issue with PowerPoint for Mac as my colleagues who use PCs don't have this issue. When you go to print the slides, they look fine if there are multiple on a page or if you print the notes version, but if you try to print 1 slide per page the images blur when printing! And not just a little fuzzy, they turn out with lines going through them and just look like they never completed loading. This also happens when exporting to a PDF. The PDF looks fine on the screen, and then as soon as you go to print it, a random image will blur out like that. Is it the same image everytime? NOPE! It picks and chooses which image it wants to blur out each time it prints. There is no rhyme or reason to this issue. I exported to PDF, Exported each slide to jpeg, even took screen shots as a last resort and had to just deal with the fact that the color was completely different on the printed screen shot slides. This has been an issue for MONTHS and is all over every forum - the fact that this hasn't been addressed by the MS team is unacceptable! If I'm printing client copies of proposal presentations it shouldn't take me all day due to troubleshooting!

PowerPoint has been around for decades and sets the bar for computer-based presentation software. There is a reason that creating a slideshow on a computer is called 'making a powerpoint" even if other software is used. PowerPoint has reached a level of maturity and capability that is impressive, and nearly any feature for a traditional computer slideshow is included. It also plays well with other MS Office tools and even has a fairly good online collaboration capability. I deducted a star based on the following. First, it has become bloated and overcomplicated for most users with features that only a very few will ever find, let alone need. Second, it isn't keeping up wth the next generation of interactive and web-based tools from Google or even Canva when it comes to media and collaboration. Third, its visual design capabilities fall a bit behind Apple Keynote. Still it is a great program for serious business users.

I think there is room for improvement on how Presentation-wide themes are changed and/or expiremented with.-as of now, it’s not intuitive to the average or above average user (let alone the beginner) on how we would change colors/fonts/styles across the landscape of a presentation - this should be EASY - click of a button then a second button - vs drop down menu where the result is not fully known until you exit - the risk there is that you lose what you had and don’t like itexpirementing is a plus- If there were the option of changing color themes across all slides - WHILE- Color choices should be more simple - why do we HAVE to have so many sub-choices for accents - make a base # of 5 and then you can add if you want but having to select accent colors that you know you’ll never use is not advisable

As of the May 2021 update, Office apps now requires internet access about once per day to validate the license. The problem is that when you give these apps internet access, then send the contents of all Office files that you open to OneDrive (Microsoft's cloud). Microsoft is convinced that the forcing all their customers to use OneDrive is going to turn around their slow but inevitable death at the hands of Google Docs - but of course it won't. Ironically, one of the strongest reasons to use stale, dusty, full of bugs Office apps before this update was that you could keep your data out of the cloud (by blocking just Office from having access to the internet). But the geniuses at Microsoft just killed that last benefit.So my message to Microsoft: give me a way to turn off saving my files in your cloud. This used to be possible but you forced everyone to participate. If you don't give me a reasonable way to have you not steal my data, I will not renew my 365 subscription.

If you are a college student and you create a PPT on Mac and you save and then upload itt as an assignment on Canvas, a lot tof tthe design elements get moved around and it makes a mess of the presentaion. pics and texts boxes are no longer where you placed hem, so your design looks bad. What I have to do no is export the presentation to a PDF an dupload that as the assignment, and then email the instructor to tell them that Canvas is wrecking my presentaion so I sent a pdf instead. My college moved from Moodle to Canvas last year and I have had this trouble ever since. When the PPT presentation is saved as a PDF, you lose all the extras you added like voice narration and sound effects, music, notes, etc.

Having just transitioned from Google Docs to Microsoft 365 I am staggered by how poor the whole experience with Powerpoint was. Firstly, the actual app running on the latest MacOS was torturous to use with frequent bugs making even the most simple thing a nightmare (page footers). But then there’s the whole online browser experience which just doesn’t work as it should. Fundamental features just aren’t available or don’t render in the online version of Powerpoint. A good example is filling the color of a text box. Something simple enough to do in any slide-presenter product. Works fine enough in the application, but not available in the online version. And these gripes are only for one of the aspects of the whole 365 ecosystem. The rest is just as poor. In my opinion, unless you have a gun to your head, you should never choose 365 over GCP.

I'm a very disappointed client. I purchased the PP 365 Office app with the understanding I would be able to use it on my computer and my ipad. It works with my computer but It has not been working on the ipad. On the ipad It only gives me the few features given on the free sample app only and is prompting me to purchase the PP 365 Office package which I already did. The IT support person was unsuccesful in helping me after over an hour of troubleshooting ;and through that process a few powerpoint programs already saved in the program were erased completely. As of yet microsoft has not been able to provide a solution. Needless to say I would not be recommending the product.

I was working on a Science presentation for my class that I was going to present later on, when it came across to me that I had Microsoft PowerPoint on my Mac. I was honestly so thrilled and could not have found a better way to make slides... The fact that you can choose any font you want (with the widest variety of choices) makes it all worthwhile. Another great feature is it's fire transition effects! And lastly, the auto-generated design ideas are perfect, I you will find indefenitly what you are looking for by choosing PowerPoint. Legit, you couldn't get this from any other slide creator! And it's definitley worth what It's worth! :) Thank you so much to the development eam at Microsoft for making my life easier!!