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What’s new with PowerPoint in Office 365?

Design and present with confidence

Design and present with confidence

Enhanced design tools let you create fluid motion and bring your slides to life with just a few clicks.

Work together in sync

Work together in sync

With 1 TB of OneDrive cloud storage, you can back up, share, and co-author your presentations.

Take PowerPoint on the road, anywhere

Take PowerPoint on the road, anywhere

Review and edit files at work, home, or anywhere in between with mobile apps.

Always up to date

Always up to date

Get exclusive, new features available only to PowerPoint in Office 365.

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Bring your presentations to life

Create memorable presentations with help from intelligent technology in just a few steps. Start with an elegant design and add rich animation, cinematic motion, 3D models, icons, and more.

Reach your audience

Tell your story with confidence using slide-by-slide notes viewable by you. Translate slides into other languages and use the built-in accessibility checker to help get your message across to everyone.

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Collaborate with others

Work together on presentations with Office 365. Get help and feedback from teammates in real time with coauthoring and comments. Save files to the cloud to easily share—anywhere, any time, on any device.

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Efficient files

With XML-based file formats, presentations are smaller, more robust, and require less storage.

Smarter effects

Dynamic effects—like SmartArt—tell your story in pictures with artful transitions that grab the audience’s attention.

Theme variants

Change the appearance of your slides with just one click.

Morph transitions

Make smooth animations, transitions, and object movements across the slides in your presentations.

Slide navigator

Navigate through the slides during a presentation while your audience sees only the slide you’re presenting.

Merging shapes

Create custom shapes and graphics with tools to combine, fragment, intersect, or subtract any two shapes.

Mobile productivity on every device

Try Office mobile apps and get more done on the go. Create, edit, and share your work anywhere, across all your devices.

Always up to date

Always have the latest Office apps, features, and services.

Efficient files

With XML-based file formats, presentations are smaller, more robust, and require less storage.

Smarter effects

Dynamic effects—like SmartArt—tell your story in pictures with artful transitions that grab the audience’s attention.

Theme variants

Change the appearance of your slides with just one click.

Morph transitions

Make smooth animations, transitions, and object movements across the slides in your presentations.

Slide navigator

Navigate through the slides during a presentation while your audience sees only the slide you’re presenting.

Merging shapes

Create custom shapes and graphics with tools to combine, fragment, intersect, or subtract any two shapes.

Mobile productivity on every device

Try Office mobile apps and get more done on the go. Create, edit, and share your work anywhere, across all your devices.

Always up to date

Always have the latest Office apps, features, and services.

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PowerPoint in Office 365

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PowerPoint 2010
Efficient files With XML-based file formats, presentations are smaller, more robust, and require less storage.
Smarter effects Dynamic effects—like SmartArt—tell your story in pictures with artful transitions that grab the audience’s attention.
Theme variants Change the appearance of your slides with just one click.
Morph transitions Make smooth animations, transitions, and object movements across the slides in your presentations.
Slide navigator Navigate through the slides during a presentation while your audience sees only the slide you’re presenting.
Merging shapes Create custom shapes and graphics with tools to combine, fragment, intersect, or subtract any two shapes.
Mobile productivity on every device Try Office mobile apps and get more done on the go. Create, edit, and share your work anywhere, across all your devices.
Always up to date Always have the latest Office apps, features, and services.

PowerPoint in Office 365

*included with Office 365 

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Office 2010 include essential applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. They’re available as a one-time purchase for use on a single PC.
 
Office 365 plans include premium versions of these applications plus other services that are enabled over the Internet, including online storage with OneDrive and Skype minutes for home use.2 With Office 365 you get the full, installed Office experience on PCs, Macs, tablets (including iPad® and Android™ tablet) and phones.1 Office 365 plans are available as a monthly or annual subscription. Learn more.
 

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You don’t need to be connected to the Internet to use Office applications, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, because the applications are fully installed on your computer.

However, Internet access is required to install and activate all the latest releases of Office suites and all Office 365 subscription plans. For Office 365 plans, Internet access is also needed to manage your subscription account, for example to install Office on other PCs or to change billing options. Internet access is also required to access documents stored on OneDrive, unless you install the OneDrive desktop app.

You should also connect to the Internet regularly to keep your version of Office up to date and benefit from automatic upgrades. If you don’t connect to the Internet at least every 31 days, your applications will go into reduced functionality mode, which means that you can view or print your documents but cannot edit the documents or create new ones. To reactivate your Office applications, reconnect to the Internet.

Yes. Documents that you have created belong fully to you. You can choose to store them online on OneDrive or locally on your PC or Mac.

If you cancel your subscription or it expires, you can still access and download all your files by signing in to OneDrive directly using the Microsoft account you used to set up Office 365. You do lose the additional storage that comes with your subscription, so you must save your files elsewhere or buy more OneDrive storage if your OneDrive account exceeds the free storage quota.

If you purchase an auto-renew subscription, your subscription starts when you complete your purchase. You can purchase auto-renew subscriptions from Office365.com, MicrosoftStore.com, iTunes®, and some other retailers. If you purchase a pre-paid subscription, your subscription starts when you activate your subscription and land on your My Account page. You can purchase pre-paid subscriptions from a retailer or reseller, or a Microsoft support agent.

If you have an active Office 365 Home subscription, you can share it with up to five members of your household. Each household member you share your subscription with can use any of your available installs on their PCs, Macs, iPads, Android tablets, Windows tablets, iPhones® or Android phones,1 get an additional 1 TB of OneDrive storage, and manage their own installs from www.office.com/myaccount.

 
To add someone to your subscription, visit www.office.com/myaccount and follow the onscreen instructions to add a user. Each person you add will receive an email with the steps they need to follow. Once they have accepted and completed the steps, their information, including the installs they are using, will appear on your My Account page. You can stop sharing your subscription with someone or remove a device they are using at www.office.com/myaccount.
 

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PowerPoint 2010 resources

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An Office 365 subscription unlocks the most up-to-date premium version of PowerPoint on all your devices. Previous versions include PowerPoint 2013, PowerPoint 2010, PowerPoint 2007, and PowerPoint 2003.

 
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1 Availability of mobile apps varies by country/region. Find out what's available in your country/region.
 
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