This feature will give users recommendations of photographs and icons (licensed for commercial use) that work with a variety of theme styles and colors based on words they type into a blank slide.ĭesigner Theme Ideas is starting to roll out now for PowerPoint for Windows, Mac and on the web for Office 365 subscribers. Microsoft also is adding Theme Ideas to Designer. Microsoft is rolling this out to Office 365 subscribers, starting with English only. This capability already is part of Bing, and makes use of Microsoft Research's Perspective Engine technology. Perspectives are references for large numerical values (example: 1,500 miles is about half the distance across the U.S.) which can be automatically surfaced. Officials say that adding branded-template support to Designer has been one of the biggest customer requests for the feature, given many presentations need to comply with corporate branding guidelines.ĭesigner for branded templates is available now for Office 365 Insider testers for Windows 10 and Mac.ĭesigner users also will be getting functionality that Microsoft calls 'perspectives' as an option for their slides. Microsoft officials said this week that PowerPoint Designer users have created one billion of the slides using Designer since its launch in 2016įor its next act, Microsoft is adding the ability for customers to use branded templates and/or to build branded templates using Designer. Designer provides suggestions about how users can build slides around a photo improve the digestibility of walls of text and adding iconography to their presentations with fewer tears. PowerPoint Designer is a set of features that Microsoft introduced to try to make building PowerPoints easier and more intuitive. On June 18, Microsoft is going public with more new PowerPoint features in that vein. Back in 2015, Microsoft announced PowerPoint Designer and Morph - two new cloud-powered features that built on Microsoft's recommendation and smart animation technologies.

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