With its wide breadth of slideshow tools, Microsoft's PowerPoint 2018 for Windows puts professional-grade presentation tools at your fingertips. Pros Deep collection of slideshow and presentation tools: With PowerPoint for Windows, you can do all the other things the other presentation apps can do. Build PowerPoint slides; add, rearrange, and delete slides for a deck; work with text; add tables, charts, and shapes; insert images; print your slides, slide notes, and handouts; and create transitions between slides. But PowerPoint takes everything a step further, giving you fine control over placing and moving objects, for example, or letting you add and play audio across slides. And PowerPoint's presenter view stands out, doing a solid job of keeping you oriented during a presentation by displaying on a second screen your speaker notes, the next slide, and your relative location in your slide deck.
Themes and templates: Microsoft has more than 100 themes you can use to start building your slide layouts. Theme styles run from professional to artful, and the more highly designed ones come with instructions for how to use a theme's more interesting features in your presentations. You can also search by type, including sales proposal, business strategy, business marketing, staff training, school report, project status, medical poster, and grant proposal. Comes with Office 365: Microsoft PowerPoint fills the presentation-software spot in the Office collection of productivity tools. If you want PowerPoint and the rest of the Office suite, for $69.99 a year, you can subscribe to the Office 365 Personal edition, which includes the; the; the OneNote note-taking app; the; the OneDrive cloud storage service; and the The Office 365 Home edition, costs $99 a year and includes the same collection of Office apps.
You can share your subscription with four other users beside yourself. If you'd rather buy, not subscribe, for $149.99, you can own the Office Home and Student 2016 for PC edition, which comes with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. And if all you want is PowerPoint: You can get the most recent version of Microsoft's presentation program - PowerPoint 2016 - separately for $129.99.
The individual slideshow software includes bug fixes and other improvements but doesn't include an upgrade to the next major edition of the PowerPoint. The standalone version also doesn't include access to OneDrive services and Skype perks. Living in the cloud: If you subscribe to the Office 365 suite, you can take advantage of Microsoft's OneDrive service to store, edit, and automatically update your PowerPoint files from a browser and any Mac, PC, and mobile device. Real-time collaboration: You can share your PowerPoint files from your Windows PC or through PowerPoint, and then collaborate in real time with colleagues with PowerPoint online via OneDrive.
Comments in a PowerPoint file are threaded, so you can carry on a conversation. Also, mobile, MacOS, and web versions: In addition to the PC edition, Microsoft has PowerPoint apps for Mac, Android, iPhone, and the web via a browser. Cons Pricey: If your business has settled on the Microsoft Office software or you are looking for the presentation horsepower PowerPoint offers, the price isn't much of an issue. But if you are looking for a presentation app that covers the basics but doesn't cost much, you may want to check out something like Bottom Line You can either get PowerPoint with Microsoft Office 365 for Windows or as a standalone app, but either way, Microsoft Office PowerPoint slide shows software has all the slideshow tools you need to wow them with your PowerPoint presentations. See also (from ZDNet) (from TechRepublic) (from TechRepublic). Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 is primed for use on tablets and phones, so you can swipe and tap your way through presentations. There are many features which make the new PowerPoint attractive.
Presenter View automatically adapts to your projection set-up, and you can even use it on a single monitor, Themes now come with variations, which make it simpler to hone in on the look you want, and when you're working with others, you can add comments to ask questions and get feedback. Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 gives you several ways to start your next presentation using a template, a theme, a recent presentation, a not-so-recent presentation, or a blank one. You can send out a link to the slides, or start a full-on Lync meeting that displays the deck with audio and IM.
Your audience can join you from anywhere, on any device using Lync or the Office Presentation Service. PowerPoint now supports more multimedia formats, such as.mp4 and.mov with H.264 video and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) audio, and more high-definition content.
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You can give feedback in PowerPoint with the new Comments pane. And you can show or hide comments and revisions.
CNET's Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our., and with it the Microsoft adopted a couple years back: $69 per year for the single-user Personal Edition, $99 per year for the five-user Home Edition or $149.99 to buy the suite outright. Make no mistake, I like Office. Word, Excel and PowerPoint have been refined and polished to a fine shine, and Outlook is arguably the best desktop mail client currently available, especially for business users. Microsoft's free online version of Word is not too shabby.
Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET But for years many of us have been spoiled by Google Docs, OpenOffice and other free alternatives, to the point where it just seems ludicrous to pay for Microsoft's suite - even with its 1 terabyte of OneDrive cloud storage and (snicker) 60 minutes of monthly Skype time. (Excuse my mockery, but this is such a paltry value-add, one few people ever use, yet Microsoft wants you to think it's all that and a bag of chips.) My question for you, fellow cheeps: What's your solution?
My guess is you're not paying for Office either (unless you're getting it cheap or free as a student or from your company), but you still need word processing, spreadsheets and/or presentations. One of my longtime favorites, WPS Office (formerly Kingsoft Office), has become something of a mess. If you head to WPS.com, you find only Android, iOS and Linux versions of the suite.
A little Googling reveals that Kingsoft proper still offers the Windows version, but good luck figuring out the. (My advice: click the Download button next to Office Suite Free 2013. That's the version I used for a long while and really liked.) What about Google Docs? It's effective enough for basic document work, but file management is kind of a pain - especially if you use Google Drive as your portal. (If there's a way to sort your documents by file type, I haven't found it.) And like most of Google's Web-based apps, it's just ugly. I consider myself a creative guy, and when I'm creating stuff, I prefer a pretty interface.
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Which brings us to Microsoft Office Online, a surprisingly decent set of tools that more or less rival what Google has to offer - but with a much prettier UI. If you don't need the higher-end feature packed into Word, Excel and PowerPoint (and I suspect most users don't), you might be surprised by how much you can accomplish with free Office Online. Now, your turn.
What's your pleasure? Old-standby OpenOffice?
Something else entirely? Tell me (and everyone else) what tools you use to handle your everyday office-y tasks. Bonus deal: Calling all Mac users!
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Regular price: $99. This offer is for new subscribers only, though if there's a gift option, you could theoretically buy that gift for yourself and use it to renew an existing subscription when the time comes. (You'll definitely want to read all the fine print to see if this would work. I'm only speculating.).