I was shocked to see that I can no longer use PowerPoint or Word with offline access to previous versions. Browsing version history only works if you're using OneDrive. First, I frequently work in places without internet access, and second, I hate OneDrive, and third, it feels like manipulation to get me to use OneDrive against my will, and fourth, it is a downgrade from my previous Office software. When I mis-save a version or don't save one by mistake, I expect the previous version to be available to me as has been the case on earlier Office products. I was shocked to recently see my "Browse Version History" greyed out, with all MS instructions ONLY telling me how to get that to work by using OneDrive. Not all of us always work with 24/7 internet access, and many customers resent being driven to your Cloud. Ugh. Do NOT try to upsell me on a monthly subscription and reduce my features. Bring back version history so it works when I am not working online. And by the way - finding out about this once a problem has occurred is TOO LATE.

Hi there! I create presentations for a living and am getting more and more requests for decks that can be used on a laptop or iPad that function as an FAQ. Client wants to be able to click from hyperlinks in a TOC to reach individual subjects in the document. Sadly, every time the client wants to update, it changes the page numbers and we have to re-hyperlink everything. Is it possible to update the system for internal document hyperlinks to function the way MSWord does? Can we hyperlink to a header or line of text rather than just the page? WE WOULD LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to be able to do this in PPT.Would save scads of time and energy.

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!

Please have your developers use and become proficient at a basic graphic design program. Graphic designers by and large are your primary users and happen to use software that has a designer's logic to it. Powerpoint's basic functionality and workflow consistently ignores this "best practice" development approach and causes so many discontinuities (read: Frustration) that if it wasn't so maddening it would be laughable. That said, there are some basic things that would make the program more user friendly:

1. Bezier curves: This is a extremely critical function! Illustrator provides fine controls that makes curves easy and quick to do - here are a few:

a) make points/nodes constrainable to vertical/horizontal/45 degree axes using the shift/click combo.

b) Make points/nodes moveable my arrow key increments by using the arrow keys.

2. Preferences: (related to Bezier curves) Make it possible to specify (objects/shapes and shape nodes) increments if moves using the arrow keys.

3. Get rid of you ribbon and your format pane - and use a dockable/undockable tools strategy - . Your attempts at making tools user context sensitive nearly always guesses what the user's next move and it gets in the way instead of helps. It's more efficient for a designer to choose the next move - your approach gets in the way.

4. Short cut keys: provide greater customization control. This might actually solve the lion's share of user workflow impediments. Adobe does this very well - follow their experience in this respect...because it is clear that they are listening to graphic designers who do intense production work all day long.

5. Shapes: Why make it 2-3 clicks to get to the shape making tool? It should be available as a single click - and it should be a short cut key for basic shapes like squares and ellipses. These two shapes are the foundation for any design space - don't bury them under so many clicks!

Text/font:

a) Should ALWAYS maintain formatting of the original copy!!!!

Format tool: So extremely cumbersome as it is. Use a simple eyedropper instead and make a standard shortcut key to access it....your rule should always be to eliminate the number of clicks it takes to get to the action a designer/user is trying to perform. Again - Illustrator (and other design programs like Sketch.

The basic suggestions I've provided above would go a long ways to making your users more happy using Powerpoint. Your font/text formatting also needs some work.

Feel free contact me if you'd like. I could get you thousands of designers to provide the same input I just did - and this is just a start. I will not fill out a survey so don't send me one. This is a matter you will only be able to address effectively if you have direct contact with those who use your products day in and day out like me.