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PowerPoint 2016 for Windows has all the functionality and features you’re used to, with some added enhancements and the best new features from Office 2016.

September 2016

Design ideas for process-oriented text

PowerPoint notices when you write a bulleted process list on a slide, and it reacts by offering to turn your text into a SmartArt graphic to represent that process.

Better presentation recording

Note: Better presentation recording is only available if you have an Office 365 subscription. and is currently only available to Office Insiders .

The look and feel of presentation recording in PowerPoint is changing to an even better experience than it was before. First of all, you can now add a Recording tab to the ribbon in PowerPoint. (See Customize the ribbon in Office. Or you can just use the Record Slide Show command on the Slide Show tab.) You can use the Recording tab to create a presentation that includes recorded slides, screen recordings, narrations and audio, and videos. You can even embed quizzes and other apps in your presentation to make it more interactive for your audience. Once you’ve recorded, you can easily publish to Docs.com to share your recorded slide show with others, or export your recording to video to share it easily on the platform of your choice. To learn more, see Record your slide show in PowerPoint .

You can also now change the ink color right from the palette in the recording pane, as well as use simpler controls to record narrations and audio.

Ink replay

You can replay ink drawings on a slide. Play them forward or backward. This special effect allows you to hide and reveal content on your slides or emphasize individual elements in a group or series.

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You can see the order in which ink was drawn, pause the replay, and select the point to start the replay from.

In-app feedback

Have a comment or suggestion about Microsoft Office? We need your feedback to help us deliver great products. In PowerPoint, you can suggest new features, tell us what you like or what’s not working by clicking File Feedback.

August 2016

Modern, In-App Help and Support

Now, when you enter a search for a certain task, function, or question where it says Tell me what you want to do. you’ll see a wide variety of options. If it’s a quick task, PowerPoint will try to let you take care of it right from the Tell Me pane. If it’s a more complex question, we’ll show you help that we think best matches your needs. Try it out to see how fast you can find what you’re looking for and get things done.

July 2016

Zoom for PowerPoint

Note: Zoom for PowerPoint is only available if you have an Office 365 subscription .

If you’d like to make your presentations more dynamic and exciting, try using Zoom for PowerPoint. When you create a Zoom in PowerPoint, you can jump to and from specific slides, sections, and portions of your presentation in an order you decide while you’re presenting. There are three kinds of Zooms you can create: Summary Zooms, Slide Zooms, and Section Zooms. To learn more, see Use Zoom for PowerPoint to bring your presentation to life.

Publish to Docs.com

Note: Publishing to Docs.com is only available if you have an Office 365 subscription .

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Docs.com lets you showcase Office documents in their original formatting and track their usage with free analytics. Choose File Publish Publish to Docs.com and then set the visibility options. When you choose Upload. your web browser will open with the presentation on Docs.com. To learn more about what you can do on Docs.com, see Basic tasks on Docs.com .

June 2016

Text Highlighter

PowerPoint now has a Text Highlighter similar to the one in Word, by popular demand! You can use it to pick different highlight colors to emphasize certain portions of the text in your presentations.

April 2016

Enhanced collaboration

Collaboration in PowerPoint 2016 is better than before. You can still share your PowerPoint 2016 presentation with others and work together in real time by using OneDrive or SharePoint .Now when you open your shared presentation, in a glance you can see who is working within the document and where. You can chat with them instantly by using Skype for Business and can view document activity, all from the top-right corner on the ribbon.

Choose a thumbnail picture of a person to begin an IM conversation by using Skype for Business or open their contact card information. Choose the Skype for Business button to start a group chat with everybody working in the document.

Document activity

The new Activity pane lets you see the complete list of changes made so far, and gives you access to the earlier versions. Choose Activity on the ribbon to see the Activity pane.

Comments

Now with one click of on the ribbon you can make or view comments in your presentation. With enhanced collaboration, it’s easier to reply to or resolve comments and mark them as complete.

January 2016

Note: The following features are only available to Office 365 subscribers. They will first roll out to Office Insider participants, and later to consumer and commercial Office 365 subscribers. If you have an Office 365 subscription, make sure you have the latest version of Office .

Real Time Presence

Collaboration is getting better and better in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows. When you share your presentation with others using OneDrive or Office 365 SharePoint. you can work together in real time. You can now not only see when others are working on the same shared presentation as you, but also see an indicator that shows you exactly what slides they’re working on, and where in the slides they’re working. To learn more about real time co-authoring, see Collaborate on PowerPoint presentations with real time co-authoring.

Ink Annotation

On touch-enabled devices, you’ll now see a Draw tab on the ribbon in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint where you can select inking styles and start making ink annotations directly in your files. In PowerPoint, you can also convert your ink drawings to Shapes by selecting them and then selecting Convert to Shapes. That way, you get the freedom of freeform drawing with the uniformity and standardization of Office graphic shapes. To learn more about inking in Office, see Draw and annotate with ink in Office 2016 .

Black Theme

The highest-contrast Office theme yet has arrived. To change your Office theme, go to File Account. and then click the drop down menu next to Office Theme. The theme you choose will be applied across all your Office apps. To learn more about Office themes, see Change the look and feel of Office 2016 for Windows with Office themes .

November 2015

Morph Transition

PowerPoint 2016 comes with a brand-new transition type, Morph, that can help you make smooth animations, transitions, and object movements across the slides in your presentation. To use the morph transition effectively, you’ll need to have two slides with at least one object in common—the easiest way is to duplicate the slide and then move the object on the second slide to a different place, or copy and paste the object from one slide and add it to the next. Then, with the second slide selected, go to Transitions Morph to see how morph can automatically animate, move, and emphasize your objects across slides.

PowerPoint Designer

PowerPoint Designer is a new service that lets you take your content and automatically generate a variety of ideas that you can choose from to make your slides look better. When you add a photo or other unique visual content, the Designer pane will open automatically with a variety of suggested visual treatments you can choose to apply to your slides. Try adding a photo to a title slide to give it a try.

September 2015

Both Office 365 subscribers and Office 2016 one-time purchasers get the following new features.

Do things quickly with Tell Me

You’ll notice a text box on the ribbon in PowerPoint 2016 that says Tell me what you want to do. This is a text field where you can enter words and phrases related to what you want to do next and quickly get to features you want to use or actions you want to perform. You also can choose to get help related to what you’re looking for, or perform a Smart Lookup on the term you entered.

Six new chart types

Visualizations are critical to effective data analysis as well as compelling storytelling. In PowerPoint 2016, we’ve added six new charts—with the same rich formatting options that you are familiar with—to help you create some of the most commonly used data visualizations of financial or hierarchal information or for revealing statistical properties in your data.

When you go to Insert Chart on the ribbon, you’ll now notice five new options that are especially well-suited for data visualization: Box and Whisker. Treemap. Sunburst. Histogram. (and within Histogram options, Pareto ), and Waterfall .

Insights into what you’re working on

The Insights pane, powered by Bing, offers more than just definitions. When you select a word or phrase, right-click it, and choose Smart Lookup. the insights pane will open with definitions, Wiki articles, and top related searches from the web. You can also get to Smart Lookup any time by going to Review Smart Lookup and entering a query there.

Ink Equations

Including math equations has gotten much easier. Now, you can go to Insert Equation Ink Equation. any time you want to include a complex math equation in your presentation. If you have a touch device, you can use your finger or a touch stylus to write math equations by hand, and PowerPoint will convert it to text. (If you don’t have a touch device, you can use a mouse to write, too). You can also erase and select and correct what you’ve written as you go.

Screen recording

Perfect for demonstrations, you can now include screen recordings in your PowerPoint presentations with just a few clicks. Just set up whatever you’d like to record on your screen, then go to Insert Screen recording. and you’ll be able to select a portion of your screen to record, capture what you need, and insert it directly into your presentation in one seamless process.

Note: This feature is also available in PowerPoint 2013 if you have the most recent updates.

Simpler sharing

Choose the Share tab on the ribbon to share your presentation with others on SharePoint, OneDrive, or OneDrive for Business.

Better conflict resolution

Now, when you’re collaborating with others on a presentation and there are conflicts between changes you’ve made and changes others have made, you’ll see a side-by-side comparison of the slides with conflicting changes, so you can easily choose visually between which changes you’d like to keep.

Improved version history

Now you can go to File History to see a complete list of changes that have been made to your presentation and access earlier versions.

Note: This feature is only supported for files stored on OneDrive for Business or SharePoint.

Colorful, Dark Gray, and White Office Themes

There are now four Office themes that you can apply to PowerPoint: Colorful, Dark Gray, Black, and White. To access these themes, go to File Account. and then click the drop down menu next to Office Theme .

Better video resolution

Now, when you export your presentation as a video, you can choose to create a file with resolution as high as 1920 x 1080, which is great for presentations on larger screens.

Note: This feature is also available in PowerPoint 2013 if you have the most recent updates.

Improved Smart Guides

Smart Guides no longer turn off when you insert a table. Now you can use them to make sure everything, tables included, is aligned properly on your slides.

Note: This feature is also available in PowerPoint 2013 if you have the most recent updates.