Why is the Advanced Animation Timeline feature still not available in the latest version of Powerpoint for Mac? It's been available for PC s since 2016.

The narration recording function is good but the actual face of the presenter cannot be videoed via the webcam on mac. This is available on the windows version and it seems an odd function to leave off the mac version as this is so widely used. It is really complicated, time consuming and potentially expensive to get this to work on mac due to having to purchase additional hardware/software.

The option to record whit the webcam in PowerPoint in mac is not

PowerPoint for Windows has Reading view which is like Presenter view with the title bar and the task bar. The good thing about Reading view is that you can have multiple windows open, and you can also have two presentations with Reading view open in two different displays, thus affording an amazing way to compare before and after slides. PowerPoint for Mac still does not have this view.

You can learn more about Reading view at https://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/learn/interface/365/reading-view.html

It would be great if PowerPoint for Mac could record the screen like the Windows version can.

Please, enable to record a slideshow with a video narrative in PowerPoint (Office 365) for Mac OS X Catalina. Unfortunately, it is available for Windows only.
The link https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/record-a-slide-show-with-narration-and-slide-timings-0b9502c6-5f6c-40ae-b1e7-e47d8741161c#OfficeVersion=macOS is not applicable for Mac OS Catalina. If this feature is implemented, it will be very interesting for users are looking for a way to make some video classes because they could record the slide show and the speaker's video simultaneously.

Why can't we create/modify paragraph and character styles with a format pane as robust as Word? Header 1, Header 2, captions, custom bullets et al that don't have to be reformatted over and over again would make things so much faster, consistent, and easier. Your end user is familiar with paragraph styles in Word, give them a little credit to be able to use them in PowerPoint as well.

This is a really basic feature that programs like InDesign and even Word (in your own eco-system) have. Many of the clients I build decks for request Tables of Contents in their presentations, and this would be very helpful in formatting them. Please add this, MS.

Request coming from teachers who are doing remote learning during the pandemic.

Please add the ability to annotate while doing a presentation recording. This would be similar to Ink on windows. The feature existed with Mix but not available in PowerPoint 16.

Office 365 has a feature that allows you to view a prerecorded pointer if the presenter used it when recording the slideshow.

The pointer shows on a prerecorded slideshow in Windows, however, the same file doesn't show the pointer on a Mac.

Adding this feature will make life easier, especially with online learning.

Keep the transparent background of a video (alpha channel) when importing into a slide show page

This idea will allow presenters to re-record on a single slide without having to redo the entire presentation.

Please make it possible to lock the position of an object (e.g,. image) on a slide. The feature is in Keynote and is indispensable when adding labels and layers to an underlying image.

RECORDING ON POWER POINT IS NOT CONSISTENT, NOT WORKING, VERY UNRELIABLE AND TIME WASTING

Office on the Mac uses many proprietary calls to dylib libraries that duplicate Windows System libraries. Office for Mac programmers could expand the range of services to macOS clients if Microsoft would document these libraries. Please hire a couple of competent people to make this possible.

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Because of the poor LateX user-interface/experience in powerpoint and to have more flexibility for the equations I write them using a different editor. I then export it as SVG and then import it in the powerpoint. My LatexEditor does support copying as SVG but the paste from clipboard in powerpoint simply ends up pasting it as an XML document. Adding clipboard based pasting for SVG will simplify this process.