In theory, I love the feature within PowerPoint (desktop version, not available in online format of PPT) where you can "record slide show" and audio is attached to each slide, which is super easy to update as needed, and then export as a video file to use on youtube, etc. HOWEVER, it's been a known issue for at least 15 years (per forums I've found online) that this feature is super glitchy. Most significantly, the audio file doesn't always record, but you don't know until your "recording session" is done and saved and you realize all or half your slides are missing audio. Additionally (less frequently) the timing isn't saved (but this can be fixed in the transitions tab) and sometimes audio that does show in PPT gets dropped when it's exported to video. For example, I have a whole slideshow that works great in PPT and all of it works in the exported video except just ONE slide is dead air space with no audio. Talking with colleagues who teach via webinar, they've abandoned the PPT route because it's so glitchy. But, if the feature worked, it would surpass most other options we have. Pleaaaaase fix this! (And once it's fixed, I bet the online users would like to have access to the feature, too.) Thanks!

It's fantastic to finally have font embedding in the Mac version of PowerPoint, but it would be even better if it was possible for embedded fonts to stay embedded if slides are copied to another presentation that uses a different theme.

Presentations (especially for conferences or collaborative pitches) are very often assembled using slides submitted by different presenters from different organisations who have different templates and themes. At the moment it seems that some of the formatting (backgrounds, colours etc) can be preserved when pasting slides, but embedded fonts are substituted and do not display. Fonts are just as integral to a correctly branded presentation as colours and backgrounds.

I recently updated all my computers (work and personal) to Powerpoint 2018 (version 16.21) from an older version (I think 2016) and I was already quite annoyed by the fact that we cannot peronnalise the toolbar anymore without getting a 365 subscription. Your software is already expensive enough that buying it should make it possible to use it completely without the need to pay again. But I could live with a non-personalised toolbar, but now I discover that I cannot save my presentations as pdf anymore, since the quality of the images get super crapy and given the number of feeds about this issue in various forums it seems to be a long going issue (at least since version 16.14 from what I've seen) that you do not care about, otherwise you would have fixed it already. This is not acceptable at all !! I cannot work if I cannot export my presentations as pdf. I also cannot insert pdf anymore, as it is always the first page that get inserted when in previous versions of Powerpoint, when we dragged a multiple page pdf in the presentation, we would get a box opening asking which page to include. I was tempted to switch from microsoft to open office or the apple software since a while and was sticking to powerpoint out of habit, now I'm definitely giving it up. New versions of softwares are suppose to bring new functionalities not less !

I love being able to take PDF screenshots or figures and paste them into presentations, so that the quality of the presentation remains high and the images aren't pixilated.

Unfortunately, with the latest updates to Office 2019 / Office 365 (at least with 16.21 190117), images inserted into PowerPoints and Word files as PDFs become pixilated and desaturated as soon as the file is saved. The results look awful on any high quality display, and are unusable for presentations or reports (even sometimes illegible altogether).

This has made it capturing screenshots on a Mac or exporting high-quality images from other applications in PDF format as vector graphics and then pasting them into PowerPoint (or Word) is no longer possible. It also has meant that any images previously inserted in PDF format have become irretrievably corrupted and unusable when those documents were saved -- a huge loss of a lot of important work. (The files look fine when first pasted -- they just become progressively more terrible each time the file is saved, which is when I first noticed the issue)

It would be really helpful if there was an option to NOT compress these files when they are imported, and to ideally keep them in PDF format instead (or at least avoid making into such low quality bitmapped images -- if they retained their quality, it would be fine). It's been awful trying to salvage painstakingly created PowerPoint after PowerPoint that has been ruined, and I'm always nervous now that Office is going to corrupt important documents with images in them when I save.

Thank you!