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PowerPoint is top-drawer presentation software, and the 2016 Mac edition gains a handful of useful additions to keep the tool vital. Pros Borrowed ribbon: The 2016 Mac edition appropriates the Windows' version of the PowerPoint ribbon. Tabs on the ribbon offer access to design tools, transitions, animations, and more. New Design tab: The ribbon's Design tab offers a selection of themes and variants. Click a theme to see a preview of it with your slide.
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Also, do look at our Text Placeholders vs. Text Boxes in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac tutorial to understand these concepts further. You can use the Outline pane to change bullet hierarchies, promote bullet levels to titles, and the other way around (demote).
You can also choose fonts, colors, and background styles. Revamped presenter view: The new presenter view does a nice job of displaying your speaker notes, the next slide, and your relative location in your slide deck. Sharing: The ribbon's Share This Presentation button lets you invite collaborators on your current presentation or send a copy via email. To add collaboration, the comments pane let you make and reply to comments in slides and offers threaded comments. OneDrive: You can easily store presentations on OneDrive, where you can access them from Windows and mobile versions of PowerPoint. Cons Lacks some OS X features: PowerPoint for Mac borrows some useful features from the Windows side, but it is very much a Mac app. It now supports Multi-Touch gestures, for example.
Still, it doesn't use OS X's Autosave or support the ability to rename, tag, and change the location of a document in a document's title bar. Bottom Line Apple's Keynote is a natural choice for Mac users looking for presentation software. But the Mac version of PowerPoint - with its new design tools, ability to customize themes and share presentations, and availability across platforms and devices - is a solid, easy-to-use tool for building effective presentations and should not be overlooked. More Resources. 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.
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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. You can give feedback in PowerPoint with the new Comments pane. And you can show or hide comments and revisions.
Hi, Im using powerpoint '16 on a mac. Normally the tab key is the shortcut to demote paragraphs and bullet hierarchy. I am finding that if I use the default template the tab key works fine to demote. If I make any modifications from the default template- change fonts, bullet colors, or any other minor change, then the tab key doesn't demote and show the bullet. I must mouse up to the ribbon to hit the demote button to get the demotion. It looks like a bug with powerpoint 16. Has anybody found a solution so you can just hit tab when you want to move to lower level bullet points with a custom template?
Just a basic point of clarification first: In order for Tab to demote an item the insertion point must be at the very beginning of the line, whereas the Indent More button will demote regardless of where on the line the insertion point sits. The same is true of Shift+Tab to promote a line. Could this be an explanation? If not, please indicate your present update level of Office 2016 as well as your version of OS X. Also, specify the exact steps you're taking & whether this occurs in one specific file or whether it occurs in all, including new presentations. FWIW, I'm running v15.27 on OS X 10.10.5 without seeing that behavior, nor have I seen any similar reports in the Community. Please mark HELPFUL or ANSWERED as appropriate to keep list as clean as possible ☺ Regards, Bob J.
Bob, the insertion point is at the very beginning of the line. Im running V 15.27 on 10.10.5 the following are my troubleshooting steps: I open a new presentation (default template)- there is no problem, tab key demotes (tabs out, and font and bullets get smaller as defined in the default template) each time you hit it If it customize the default template and save it as a custom template the tab key function 'breaks' after making at least two changes to the default indent levels. Specifically I removed the bullet at level 2, and changed the color of the bullet at level 3. With these changes from the default template, the tab key just tabs out, but all bullets are gone. If I use the indent more button the behavior is normal and I see bullets as defined in the new template. This applies to all templates I have created on the mac.
I just opened a presentation which i made on a windows PC, and was surprised that if I added a new bullet point, and hit the tab key to demote it, it works correctly. Maybe I need to make my new template on the PC and then use it on the mac (I use a mac now).
Bob, I want to use my company template for my slides. For testing purposes, I see the problem if I simply modify the default PPT template- the template you get if you get if you go File New Presentation (not selecting any custom template). From the new presentation, the tab key works fine. If I modify the slide master of the new presentation the tab key stops working correctly, which means it tabs out, but bullets no longer precede the insertion point like they should. In modifying the template i go to view slide master, and specifcally have removed the bullet from the second level, and changed the third level bullet color to red (I don't think this matters but this is how I've been testing) in the big Office Theme Slide Master, not in the layout below it. (I can see my change propagate into the Title and Content layout below). Now I go to normal view, add a new slide, type some text at level 1, hit return then tab two times to start a new line at level 3.
I don't get my red bullet, nor any bullets even if I tab out to level 4 and beyond. I tried this on another mac and see the same issue.
John is correct. You can't have a Bullet List Format which applies bullets only on certain levels.
If you remove the bullet for Level 2 the bullet is removed for all subordinate levels. Granted, it doesn't appear to be that way while viewing the Slide Master, but that effectively is what happens. Stated another way, you can't have a Level 3,4,5 or 6 if you don't have a Level 2.
What you can do is remove the bullet on any items in the list on the slide, itself, but you can't do it on a master because it 'breaks' the hierarchical flow of the formatting. Please mark HELPFUL or ANSWERED as appropriate to keep list as clean as possible ☺ Regards, Bob J. That solved the problem.
So if I want one level to be 'bulletless', I need to make a bullet that is the background color, and I get the desired result without breaking the indent hierarchy. Im still puzzled why the indent button on the mac version still works fine on a line without a bullet. Indenting with the indent button passes over the bulletless line, but shows the bullet on the next line- just doesn't work with the tab key.
I have always like to have one level that doesn't have bullets, and this has not been an issue with the Windows version of PPT, but seems unique to the mac version. Thanks for the help guys! I don't think either option will provide what you want to do because AFAIK PPt for Mac does not have the option to format individual levels differently. When you modify a Master, my understanding is:. If you change the color for any one level the bullets for all list items that follow it will be the same color. Using a custom bullet character of a specific color causes that bullet character to be used for all list items regardless of level. Please mark HELPFUL or ANSWERED as appropriate to keep list as clean as possible ☺ Regards, Bob J.