In Office for Mac 2011 (and for current Windows Users) one can choose to reuse a single slide (or 2, 3 etc) from another presentation and retain the original formatting. No more! With 2016 the user is forced to add ALL slides from the secondary presentation - and the formatting is automatically changed, too. For example, if you need 2 slides from a 100 slide presentation, all 100 slides are inserted and all formatting auto-changed to the receiving presentation. This renders the feature virtually useless and costs users a ton of time that wasn't previously required. The Microsoft Tech team casually dismissed this issue in 2018i, but I can't imagine they really understaand how degraded the Reuse feature is for Mac users. Please reconsider!

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 1st slide of the presentation rather than a specific slide. Add your own suggestions in the comments below.

3) Sections are a great tool to segment a long presentation. Alas, they are hidden in Presenter View. You have to improvise with a blank slide to highlight where sections end. It would be so much easier if they were shown for example by a colored line between slides in the slide overview at the bottom of Presenter View.

4) As you advance through a presentation the current slides will be shown as the rightmost slide in the slide overview. That is the wrong position. When in a presentation you want to see what lies ahead. The slide overview should always be centered on the current slide, showing the next couple of slides without having to scroll.

5) Reduce the amount of unused screen real estate. Why the huge black areas? More of this should be used to enlarge the elements currently present in the Presenter View.

6) The first line of the notes fields is not shown by default. It should be of course as it is the most important line. It's silly to have to scroll up to see it every time. See this bug report: http://bit.ly/2eFvdXk.

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 is to include a sample table on a slide within the template, and ask users to copy that table and adapt for their data, or to manually make their table styling look the same – both of which of course are universally ignored because they require more work.

It is possible to set the default style of text boxes, shapes and lines, so default table styles is a completely logical addition.

Microsoft is selling limited version of PowerPoint 2019 on Mac charging the same or more money. There are plenty of tools and options not available on Macs, where are quite long available on PC. This is very unfair and I'm surprised that there is still no lawsuit against that company for tens and hundreds of millions $ for making faulty software. Im just going to promote that action in public so maybe in a short time we would see significant improvement of Mac version of Office, or MS will be sued for millions. In US, in EU, in UK, wherever would be possible.

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 more flexible and powerful.