PowerPoint 2016 for Mac Quick Start Guide. What's new in Office 365. Keyboard shortcuts in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac. Compare PowerPoint features on different platforms. Compare recent versions of PowerPoint for Mac. While PowerPoint has a limited free version and Keynote is often free for Mac owners, there's a free presentation app that I like perhaps even more: Google Slides.
Keynote is Apple's take on presentations and is one of the most feature complete you're going to find. There are tons of templates to choose from and almost everything is customizable exactly to your looking. Did we mentions it's also extremely easy to use? Keynote also syncs with which means any other iPhone, iPad, or Mac with Keynote installed can instantly access your presentations. If you're invested into the Apple ecosystem, Keynote is hands down the most convenient option you're going to find. Free for new iPad purchases or $9.99 - PowerPoint.
Haiku Deck lets you create visually gorgeous presentations on your iPad with very little effort. Your projects are saved as decks to the Haiku Deck service.
After they're created you can view and present them on any iPad, iPhone, or web browser — which makes it easy to share them on a projector. One of my favorite features of Haiku Deck is its amazing collection of stock art and backgrounds to choose from. Just type in any query and you'll find something without having to hunt it down on your own. If you plan to only create presentations on your iPad and really like the idea of having stock art and photography to choose from, check out Haiku Deck. Free (some themes and photos require in-app purchases) - Prezi. Prezi currently offers 15 easy to use templates to choose from.
Just choose the one you like and start creating. Whenever you save a Prezi on your iPad, it's instantly available online via your Prezi account. You can import photos from your Camera Roll, use ones you find online, or take photos as you work. Layouts are also easily changed so you know your content looks the best it can. If you like pop art style templates and don't need tons of extras, Prezi is an awesome, and completely free, choice. Free - Flowboard. Flowboard is a social presentation app that lets you not only create your own projects, but view and enjoy other people's in the Flowboard community.
Aside from having tons of sharing options, Flowboard has some pretty advanced creation tools and even lets you work in layers. Import your own images, choose from tons of prebuilt templates inside Flowboard, and more. You can even embed video and links with ease. If you need media rich presentations complete with links, video, and imagery, that's what Flowboard does best.
Free (subscription required for some features) - CloudOn. CloudOne links with existing storage services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, and others. You can import existing PowerPoint files and then work on them inside CloudOn. You can also create new PowerPoint files inside CloudOn and save them or share them with others. CloudOn is essentially the desktop version of MS Office 2010 inside another app which means you get all those features packed into an iPad version that links with your existing cloud storage. If you're still stuck on MS Office 2010 and want exactly that on your iPad, CloudOn can give it to you.
Free (some features require subscription) - Your picks? If you frequently create presentations on your iPad, what are your favorite presentation apps? Do you use any of the ones listed above or have you found something else equally as awesome?
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Update to Microsoft PowerPoint Version 16.20 (181208) BREAKS the display of some graphics images. Today I updated to PowerPoint 16.20 and a file that yesterday displayed correctly now does NOT display (running Mac OS Mojave in both instances).
To confirm file is not corrupt, I copied same file to another Mac and it displays correctly in PowerPoint 16.16.3 (on Mac running Sierra). See 1st and 2nd screenshots below shows that file displays correctly in previous version of PowerPoint 16.16.3 (on Mac OS Sierra). The 3rd and 4th screenshot shows the EXACT SAME file AFTER update to 16.20, where the images are MISSING (in Mac OS Mojave). Interestingly, in Mojave, the FINDER shows a PREVIEW where the 'missing' images are DISPLAYED (6th & 7th screenshot), but when file is opened in PowerPoint 16.20 both of the images are MISSING. I believe this is a bug caused by 16.20 update, as on my Mac running Mojave running which earlier today had PowerPoint 16.16.3 the file DID display correctly. So I do NOT think this is a problem linked to differences in Sierra and Mojave.
Details below. I can send you the original.pptx file if you respond to this and tell me where I can post or email the file?
Charlie See 1st and 2nd screenshots below shows that file displays correctly in previous version of PowerPoint 16.16.3 (on Mac OS Sierra). The 3rd and 4th screenshot shows the EXACT SAME file AFTER update to 16.20, where the images are MISSING (in Mac OS Mojave). Interestingly, in Mojave, the FINDER shows a PREVIEW where the 'missing' images are DISPLAYED (6th & 7th screenshot), but when file is opened in PowerPoint 16.20 the image is MISSING. Information has been removed according to Privacy Policy. I work on the Mac PowerPoint team and have been discussing the problem with customers ( like Charlie ) directly through our in app feedback system ( Send A Frown / Send A Smile ). This is an issue that effects the whole Mac and Win32 Office suite. A fix was published and hopefully by the end of the weekend, it will have propagated to all users.
The content that is failing to render are.EMF assets. If this is blocking you, you can attempt to retrieve the.EMF content from the PowerPoint deck and then convert it to JPG/PNG media types and use that instead. This article explains how you can access content within a.pptx file: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2017/10/02/extract-embedded-video-file-powerpoint-osx/.