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Slide notes layout gets messed up when switching from local to web and vice versa
Hi everyone,
Since we moved to Office 365, we've had issues with speaker notes (or slide notes). Because people work in collaboration on PPT documents, they don't always use the same app: web, local, mobile.
What we've observed is that if someone starts slide notes in local, and then opens the PPT in the web (or vice versa), the layout of the slide notes becomes unmanageable, and unprintable. Since those notes are usually for higher management, it becomes difficult for my team to provide them with clean, well-printed speaker notes.
The only way we found that works is to use…
59 votesThanks for reporting this issue. We fixed this issue that you described earlier this year.
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Morph Transition Animation
Create a Morph Animation which looks at the position of an object on a prior slide and moves only that object individual within traditionally established animation sequences (instead of being bound to slide transition).
66 votesWe released a Morph Transition last year. Please try it out and give us feedback. Duplicate the slide you want to “Morph” and then move the objects on the slide. Select “Transition” tab and then “Morph” to apply it.
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We already have this idea in PowerPoint. It is called “Ink Replay”. We love it and want to hear your thoughts about it too. You can find “Ink Replay” under the “Draw” ribbon tab
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Do Not Require Checkout or Save As in Notes Page View for PowerPoint Files on SharePoint
Our organization recently moved to a full SharePoint implementation replacing our File Server. When our users are accessing a PowerPoint saved to SharePoint and select View --> Notes Page Presentation View, PowerPoint (client install) prompts "Edits made in this view will be lost when saved to the server. Use Save As to create a copy and make changes."
I've read that this is due to Microsoft not supporting co-authoring for notes. Regardless, it creates unnecessary headache for our users to Save As a new file and then reversion into the previous file.
For now we're instructing our users to Check…
22 votesThank you for submitting your feature request!
We are happy to announce that this issue has been fixed and released via the Monthly Channel. Please update to version 1908 (build 11929.20254) or higher, and give it a try.
Keep voting for the other features on your wish list. We are listening :)
Thanks!
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hex color
Use hex color string to add color in custom color palette (additionally to the RGB and HSL). Sure you can convert it but web based standard is Hex and in the XML it is saved in Hex anyway. (so why not enter it directly?)
24 votesYes, like mentioned in the comments we do added this support. You will see this update on Office builds 12615.20000 or greater.
Thanks for submitting this idea.
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What about the videos from Stream Microsoft application? I want to use my link for my presentation. Thank you
How can I link my Stream Microsoft video on my presentation?
Thank you
2 votesInserting a link to a Stream video will be available in the latest update of PowerPoint for Windows (Version 1906, Build 11727.20210). You’ll find the button for inserting an Online Video in the ribbon under the Insert tab. Be sure to install the next update. Thanks for using PowerPoint and Stream!
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Picture transparency
Hi! Please add a feature to adjust the transparency of pictures as a whole.
This is a quite useful feature when creating master/ presentation sildes.
While you are at it, could you add a slider to the "Picture Tools"-tab to adjust the transparency of a picture?ATM, you actually can adjust the transparency of a picture, but the process of doing has too many steps and is really uninuitive.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Make-a-picture-transparent-CE96AC80-5AFC-436C-AE3F-0C78009BF704?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US&fromAR=1143 votesThis feature has been released.
Select your Picture and navigate to the Picture Format tab. In the Adjust section you will see a transparency dropdown that let’s you choose a preset transparency or for greater control select the Picture Transparency Options. -
Make selecting a Font easier by applying the words you have highlighted in the Font dropdown menu instead of the name of each actual font
Instead of the Font dropdown menu consisting of the Name of each font would it be possible to see the words you have highlighted in the font dropdown menu..? The problem with the Font menu only consisting of the Name of each font is that you can only see what each font looks like with that particular word. For example, you can only see what Arial looks like with the word "Arial", or you can only see what Broadway looks like with the word "Broadway", or you can only see what Candara looks like with the word "Candara", etc. So…
56 votesThanks for your feedback! We do support live previews when you highlight the text on your slide and then hover over the fonts that appear in the font drop down.
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Add 'From Clipboard' to the 'Change picture' options (current options are 'From a File', 'Online Pictures' and 'From Icons')
Add 'From Clipboard' to 'Change Picture' options
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Update a presentation while presenting
As someone who uses PowerPoint for a school competition, I would like to be able to edit slides further into the presentation while I am in presenter mode. This will allow me to have one slideshow deck, presenting on a laptop and projector, while on either the same laptop or on a different computer through OneDrive, update slides ahead of me with winners information, etc. this allows me to deliver a higher quality presentation for the hundreds of students involved in our competition.
54 votesThank you for voting up this request! We are proud to announce that you can now synchronize content changes during slideshow! Update to the latest version of PowerPoint and give it a try.
Check out this blog post for more information
https://blog-insider.office.com/2020/04/08/synchronize-changes-while-presenting/Again, thank you for your support! Keep voting for other features on your wish list :)
Cheers!
Lishan from PowerPoint Team -
Embed online content besides YouTube, such as Vimeo, Wistia, Facebook, and Stream
It would be so helpful to have the option of embedding videos from other sources other than just YouTube. One great source is Vimeo and it typically doesn't contain a bunch of annoying ads. For example, I want to show a particular video that is only on Vimeo and is not on YouTube. So, I need to find a workaround for this and try to make it look like a video playback as much as possible. Thank you for the consideration.
590 votesInserting a link to a video from Stream or Vimeo in addition to YouTube will be available in the latest update of PowerPoint for Windows (Version 1906, Build 11727.20210). You’ll find the button for inserting an Online Video in the ribbon under the Insert tab and can paste in a URL for any video on Stream, Vimeo, or YouTube. Be sure to install the next update. Thanks for using PowerPoint and Stream! If you’d like to see additional video providers added, please feel free to open a new request and let us know which ones matter most to you.
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Icon picker with search
As with Online Pictures( from Web), put a search box in the icon picker.
There are many many icons and it is slow displaying icons and a search would improve what you really want.6 votes -
Possibility to resolve comments like in Word, mark a comment as resolved
PowerPoint is missing the possibility to mark a comment as resolved, you can only reply to them
15 votesWith the latest modern comments update that released a few months ago, you can finally resolve comments. Enjoy!
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More icons
I absolutely love your introduction of Icons but now I want more. Please can you include more Icons to generate more variety?
18 votesThank you for letting us know how to make the Icons experience more useful in PowerPoint. There are now nearly 350 new icons to choose from when you insert an icon throughout Office 365, including new categories like accessibility, holidays, and process.
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Add track changes to PowerPoint
Add Track Changes to PowerPoint. Treat each text box as indivdual "word" type documents so each text box keeps track of the edits even if they are moved around.
13 votesThank you for your feedback! The feature of highlighting what’s changed in the presentation has started being deployed to Insider Fast and Insider Slow builds. The rest of the Office 365 subscribers will get the feature in a couple of weeks. See the post below for more information, and keep voting on other things on your wish list!
Thanks!
PowerPoint Team -
enable morph in powerpoint professional
I'm a decision maker for the software & hardware for 17000 people in our organization. I've been resisting an anti Microsoft camp, but my experience with office16 on the surface pro has turned me around hard this weekend. mostly the disabled morph feature in ppt & the inability to disable the handwriting panel. I wish it didn't have to be this way
4 votesThe Morph feature should be available on PowerPoint Pro, for all Office 365 subscribers.
On your machine at home, are you logged in as an Office 365 subscriber? And, is your app build number higher than 16.0.6366.2025? If the answers to both questions are yes, please post your issue, along with your app build number, on the Office Answers site (http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2016) and we’ll follow up with an investigation. Thanks!
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Add line spacing options to tighten line
On the Home tab there is a Line Spacing button in the Paragraph group. Click it and you see options for line spacing of
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3.0I don't know about you, but I have never in my life used a double- or triple-spaced line in PowerPoint.
I have, however, used .8, .85, .9 and .95, and I use them a lot. Why are these not options on the Line Spacing dialog in PowerPoint? Why must I click Line Spacing Options at the bottom of that menu and go through another dialog to change from Single to Multiple…
60 votesThanks for taking the time to write feedback. We now support this in our desktop app. Under the “Home” tab, within the “Paragraph” section select the drop down for line spacing and then select “Line Spacing Options”. This will open a new window that will allow you to change from “Single” to “Multiple” and input your own values.
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Make CTRL+V work again
Several users in DK (including me) report that CTRL+V stopped working in PowerPoint 2016 (and only CTRL+V, not e.g. CTRL+C and it still works in Word 2016).
11 votesThank you for reporting the issue! We have started deploying the fix to all Office 365 subscribers. Please update your product. Again, thanks!
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Move excel graphs with arrow buttons
Powerpoint should let you move graphs with the arrow keys! Right now you have to use a mouse and it makes it really hard to shift graphs
24 votesThanks for submitting this idea. We previously marked it “Under Review” and confirmed that we already support this idea so we are moving it to “Completed”.
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Export to PDF Office 2016 loses object hyperlinks
I've been using the Office 2016 export to PDF, both in PowerPoint and Word.
I'm using Office 2016 Pro 64bit on a Win7 pc and also on a Win 10 pc, and when I export to PDF I'm finding that hyperlinked text is retained but hyperlinked objects (shapes in this instance) lose their hyperlinks during the PDF process.
To prove this is a 2016 only issue, I then tried the export to PDF using a PC with Office 2013 and this produced the PDFs without losing any hyperlinks.
Has anyone else noticed this? Anyone found a workaround? Can this issue…
4 votesThis issue has been fixed and pushed out to all Insiders (join the Office Insider program for free via https://products.office.com/en-us/office-insider).
For the rest of the subscribers, the fix may be deployed in another week. For the non-subscribers, the fix may be deployed via Windows Update in May.
Again, thank you for your feedback! Please keep voting on the other ideas.
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