PowerPoint for Mac
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Embed live webpages into PPT
Put simply, beyond embedding video (e.g., YouTube), it's crucial to allow embedding a live webpage on slides - not just a hyperlink, but a secure interactive page.
There are many reasons - teaching, grabbing the latest news or stock information, etc.
This is *already* possible in Windows..
It's possible in Office 2013 on Windows to embed a live (secure) website into PowerPoint (http://speakingpractically.com/2015/06/01/need-to-show-a-website-while-you-present-two-quick-tricks-using-powerpoint/). There's also been a *very* popular Add-In (LiveWeb - http://skp.mvps.org/liveweb.htm)
570 votesThanks for your feedback! The PowerPoint for Mac team is reviewing your suggestion to support live web page embedding and will consider it in future planning rounds.
Remember, this site helps us to prioritize our backlog so the more votes a suggestion gets, the more likely it is that we’ll do it. If this is a feature that is important to you, be sure to give it a vote!
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Add ability to compare and combine two PPT files
Add ability to compare and combine two PPT files
475 votesThanks for your feedback! The PowerPoint for Mac team is reviewing your suggestion to provide a way to compare and merge two PowerPoint files. We would also like to have this feature and will consider it in future planning rounds.
Remember, this site helps us to prioritize our backlog so the more votes a suggestion gets, the more likely it is that we’ll do it. If this is a feature that is important to you, be sure to give it a vote!
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Bring Developer Tab to PowerPoint for Mac
Put a Developer's Tab in PowerPoint for mac.
385 votesThanks for your feedback! Though PowerPoint for Mac 2016 does not include a dedicated Developer tab like PowerPoint for Mac 2011, the developer tools are still available.
These tools can be found here:
- Editor: Choose the Tools | Macro | Visual Basic Editor option
- Macros: Choose the Tools | Macro | Macros… option
- Add-Ins: Choose the Tools | Add-Ins… optionRemember, this site helps us to prioritize our backlog so the more votes a suggestion gets, the more likely it is that we’ll do it. If having a dedicated Developer tab is important to you, be sure to give it a vote!
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Support text wrapping around image
Please include the above capability. It's essential in this software and has been in all other versions or Word and, I believe, PPT.
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Ability to lock items on a slide
In Keynote, you can lock items so they won't move. Can you implement that in PowerPoint?
132 votesThanks for your feedback! The PowerPoint for Mac team is reviewing your suggestion and will consider it in future planning rounds.
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Animation Timeline
Please add the advanced animation timeline view (that is available in the PC version) so that you can see all the animations on a slide laid out visually.
115 votesThanks for your feedback! The PowerPoint for Mac team is reviewing your suggestion and will consider it in future planning rounds.
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Allow presentations to have mixed orientations
Allow portrait and landscape in same presentation
112 votesThanks for your feedback! The PowerPoint for Mac team is reviewing your suggestion to allow presentations include both landscape and portrait orientations and will consider it in future planning rounds.
Remember, this site helps us to prioritize our backlog so the more votes a suggestion gets, the more likely it is that we’ll do it. If this is a feature that is important to you, be sure to give it a vote!
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Enable changing source files of linked Excel charts from Powerpoint
When an excel chart is inserted in powerpoint the data och the chart is linked to an excel spreadsheet.
In the windows version it is possible to change the source file of the linked data. It is not possible to do this in powerpoint 2016 for Mac.
110 votesThanks for your feedback! The PowerPoint for Mac team is reviewing your suggestion and will consider it in future planning rounds.
Remember, this site helps us to prioritize our backlog so the more votes a suggestion gets, the more likely it is that we’ll do it. If this is a feature that is important to you, be sure to give it a vote!
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Add the functionality to use the iPhone or iPad as remote
Apple's Keynote makes it possible to use the iPhone as a remote and the iPad is the presentation device, for example. In PowerPoint, there is !no! possibility to use a device as a remote, and I think, this function should have been integrated much versions earlier! So please, implement it! It's really important to make a good presentation and I don't want to use third-party apps!
90 votesThanks for your feedback! The PowerPoint for Mac team is reviewing your suggestion and will consider it in future planning rounds.
Remember, this site helps us to prioritize our backlog so the more votes a suggestion gets, the more likely it is that we’ll do it. If this is a feature that is important to you, be sure to give it a vote!
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Print for comments
Add option to print slides with annotations and comments. Why is this missing?
87 votesThanks for your feedback! The PowerPoint for Mac team is reviewing your suggestion and will consider it in future planning rounds.
Remember, this site helps us to prioritize our backlog so the more votes a suggestion gets, the more likely it is that we’ll do it. If this is a feature that is important to you, be sure to give it a vote!
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Customize Presenter View
Presenter View is an essential tool of Powerpoint helping us present with notes, a timer, a preview, and a slide overview. But many things remain to be improved. Join me in pushing for the following essential features and bug fixes.
1) Allow customization. Not everybody needs the same things from the Presenter View. Allow users to activate/inactivate elements to their needs.
2) Create a couple additional widgets for the Presenter View that fit less frequent user requirements like a countdown timer to end at a specific time, a slides left counter, a centralized notes field to be saved with the…
84 votesThanks for your feedback! The PowerPoint for Mac team is reviewing your suggestion and will consider it in future planning rounds.
Remember, this site helps us to prioritize our backlog so the more votes a suggestion gets, the more likely it is that we’ll do it. If this is a feature that is important to you, be sure to give it a vote!
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Allow ungrouping of charts for powerful design
It used to be possible with Powerpoint for the Mac to ungroup charts from Excel. This was a crucial power feature to customize and design charts beyond the fixed default format of Excel. A very useful function indeed.
Unfortunately, this is no longer possible on the Mac even though using the Enhanced Metafile format it still seems to work on Windows.
Bring back chart ungrouping, so we can make professional and personal charts again using Powerpoint. Excel and PPT formats are too limited and don't satisfy the requirements of many companies and publishers. Re-enabling chart ungrouping would make Office much…
48 votesThanks for your feedback! The PowerPoint for Mac team is reviewing your suggestion and will consider it in future planning rounds.
Remember, this site helps us to prioritize our backlog so the more votes a suggestion gets, the more likely it is that we’ll do it. If this is a feature that is important to you, be sure to give it a vote!
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See live preview of character spacing
Previous versions of PPT allowed live previewing of condensing or expanding of font character spacing. It is now no longer available and it a lot of time gets spent trying out a spacing value and having to go back and forth to get it just as needed. Please bring Live Preview back.
45 votesThanks for your feedback! The PowerPoint for Mac team is reviewing your suggestion and will consider it in future planning rounds.
Remember, this site helps us to prioritize our backlog so the more votes a suggestion gets, the more likely it is that we’ll do it. If this is a feature that is important to you, be sure to give it a vote!
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Support to lock guides
Please make the guides lockable so that they aren't continually moved whenever trying to resize an object whose handles are near the guides.
42 votesThanks for your feedback! The PowerPoint for Mac team is reviewing your suggestion and will consider it in future planning rounds.
Remember, this site helps us to prioritize our backlog so the more votes a suggestion gets, the more likely it is that we’ll do it. If this is a feature that is important to you, be sure to give it a vote!
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Applescript support for Office Mac 2016
I cannot use apple script with this version of Office Mac. It is unbelievable. KEEP SAME FUNCTIONS OF OFFICE MAC 2011, please
37 votesThanks for your feedback! The PowerPoint for Mac team is reviewing your suggestion and will consider it in future planning rounds.
Remember, this site helps us to prioritize our backlog so the more votes a suggestion gets, the more likely it is that we’ll do it. If this is a feature that is important to you, be sure to give it a vote!
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Change default pasting text option
When pasting text, please make it optional to change the default settings to something other than "Use destination theme." Eliminating the need to have to toggle down each time text entries are entered.
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Add "Publish" feature found in Windows
Please make it possible to gather all the fonts, videos... from a presentation in one folder. I think it was calles "publish" in windows
33 votesThanks for your feedback! The PowerPoint for Mac team is reviewing your suggestion and will consider it in future planning rounds.
Remember, this site helps us to prioritize our backlog so the more votes a suggestion gets, the more likely it is that we’ll do it. If this is a feature that is important to you, be sure to give it a vote!
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Allow a default table style to be set
The ability to set a default table style in a presentation is a major omission from PowerPoint. Currently when you insert a table it takes the formatting of one of the built-in table styles, which you can then change by choosing another one of the built-in styles.
Most brands require a specific format for their tables - e.g. a certain colour of header row, a certain style of borders, etc. It would be very helpful if these attributes could be baked into a template so that new tables automatically take on the correct styling.
Currently the only workaround for this…
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Data links to Excel in powerpoint for mac 2011
In powerpoint the paste chart options provide for:
1 - paste chart with data linked to Excel (default)
2 - Embed excel file in PPT
3 - Paste pictureI think we need to have two essential features:
First the obvious one:
4 - Paste chart WITHOUT data link to Excel (it is a mystery why thisAnd since we now have so many inked charts in our PPT files now, we also need a solution (as in Windows) to review, edit and break data links to Excel. Can we really believe this is not in Office 2011 for Mac?
27 votesThanks for the input. We’ll definitely consider this during our planning for the next release. Please continue to vote on this feature idea.
Thanks,
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PDF Compression Capability
PDF compression not possible currently on Mac. Was available earlier.
26 votes
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