About Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint is an on-premise presentation solution designed to help professionals and businesses create, edit and share slides with team members, external clients and other stakeholders. Administrators can track changes made by team members and insert embedded animations, tables, shapes, icons, images, 3D objects and other elements within Microsoft PowerPoint decks. Managers can use customizable themes and templates to design presentations with transitions. Microsoft PowerPoint is available on a one-time subscription and support is extended via email, knowledge base, FAQs and other online measures.
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Microsoft PowerPoint pricing

Microsoft PowerPoint has a free version and offers a free trial. Microsoft PowerPoint paid version starts at US$6.00/month.

Starting Price:
US$6.00/month
Free Version:
Yes
Free trial:
Yes

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Microsoft PowerPoint Reviews

Feature rating

Value for Money
4.5
Functionality
4.6
Ease of Use
4.6
Customer Support
4.3
5 reviews of 20,494 View all reviews
Charles
  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
0

5
Reviewed on 22/11/2019

The number one presentation software package

I've created innumerable presentations for clients big and small. In my many years of using the product and sending presentations to people all around the globe, I have never once had someone tell me they could not open a file or report any problems with their presentation. It takes some practice to truly master, but once you've spent quality time working with the software you can do some good stuff.

Pros

PowerPoint is a straightforward tool for making and showing presentations with an interface that is very much "what-you-see-is-what-you-get." It is also the dominant presentation software, meaning that you will probably never find a client or venue that will have problems with any presentation you created in PowerPoint. It is also rather versatile, allowing users to do far more that slide-based presentations. Users can create online slideshows, clickable infographics, and embed original graphics and videos.

Cons

Like all Microsoft products, PowerPoint has it's eccentricities. It could be more user-friendly, which is where some of the competing presentation apps excel. It is absolutely not good for creating original art or illustrations, even though many users seem to think so. If you want original graphics then you should be creating them in some other app (like Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.) and then importing them into PowerPoint.

Alternatives Considered

Apache OpenOffice and Prezi

Reasons for Switching to Microsoft PowerPoint

The near-universal accessibility of PowerPoint makes it very easy to create presentations that anyone can watch. You don't want a client to have any trouble viewing or using the product, and PowerPoint is great for that.
sunita
  • Industry: Arts & Crafts
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Features
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 28/09/2023

Helping me for best presentation.

I am a trainer and giving training to rural and tribal area, PowerPoint presentation helps me with interesting training that women enjoy colourful slides videos and songs.

Pros

The number of templates accessible online and directly from them is amazing, and they are very simple to use for presentation. This software is flexible and may create basic or complicated follow-along slides with text and images to enhance learning.

Cons

For the past four years, I have been using PowerPoint. I did not discover any problems, however, there was one instance where the products suddenly ceased to function, and I lost the data I was working on at the moment.

HESHAM
  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Features
2
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
3

3
Reviewed on 02/02/2019

My review after using PowerPoint

The advantages and disadvantages of PowerPoint introductions demonstrate that with watchful arranging, any account can be improved for the individuals who are partaking in the occasion. Without that arranging, the introduction may accomplish more damage than anything else to the account.

Pros

1. It is anything but difficult to download and utilize for all intents and purposes anyplace.

PowerPoint is viewed as a standard item in numerous expert settings. This enables you to take your client permit for all intents and purposes anyplace to most likely make the designs required for your introduction. It is so expected, truth be told, that you may make a negative early introduction in the event that you don't have a PowerPoint introduction to offer.

2. It can make an introduction all the more intriguing.

Notwithstanding intriguing introductions can become long and exhausting. With a vivified introduction or fascinating statements or other fun slides, you can bring individuals again from their fatigue.

3. It is anything but difficult to tweak each slide to address explicit issues.

Pictures on a slide can be diminished or expanded in scale to meet your requirements. It just takes a couple of snaps to embed, modify, and adjust pictures to make a required visual portrayal. You can even utilize bolts, pointers, or different shapes to feature key zones of data you need individuals to think about.

4. It is a basic procedure to make the track with hand-outs.

You can print each slide straightforwardly from PowerPoint. At that point, you can duplicate those slides to wind up an accommodating hand-out that can be given to every introduction member.

5. It is sensibly moderate for general experts.

Field-tested strategies for Office 365 begin at just shy of $10 eve

Cons

1. There's dependably the shot of running into specialized challenges.

Indeed, even technically knowledgeable people can keep running into introduction issues when the innovation doesn't function as planned. Possibly the PC quits working. Or on the other hand, you lose the capacity to your outlet. Or on the other hand, the overhead showcase doesn't work right. This can change the positive initial introduction of an introduction very rapidly.

2. Slides with a lot of data on them can end up overpowering.

Since there are such huge numbers of choices that can be incorporated on a PowerPoint introduction, it very well may be anything but difficult to go over the edge on the quantity of hues, sounds, shapes, and different things that can be utilized. By adding to numerous things, you can degrade the data that should be shared.

3. Is anything but a substitute for what a moderator must do.

Numerous who use PowerPoint will in general depend on the data on the slide as opposed to giving a learning account. It is anything but difficult to wind up excessively dependent on this product and overlook that there is a genuine introduction that should be finished.

4. Expenses are continually progressing.

Since it is a piece of the Office 365 bundle, you never again get an exclusive programming permit for one explicit expense. You should pay a month to month or yearly membership cost, which after some time can mean more than what the restrictive permit once advertised. You should

Ray
  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 14/08/2023

My Review: I Love PowerPoint

I literally live in PowerPoint and use it throughout every workday for presentation design: Doing countless updates to our firms capabilities presentations and creating strategy decks for clients. PowerPoint is my most used tool within my business other email.

Pros

It's easy to use and has ample utility for beginning or advanced users. It is platform that empowers users' creativity and I love it. It's recent upgrades to the image editing feature is a game changer, particularly the image sizing features when using them in presentations. But the image resolution and color adjustment features, not to mention the background remover allows me to take things to a different level.

Cons

No cons really just some feedback. While I love having the background removal feature, MS still has some work to do on the accuracy of that tool. Also, they need to add way more font option.

Zaid
  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 06/11/2023

The best presentations software for you

Pros

Microsoft PowerPoint is the best presentation software in the world, it is very flexible and has a huge number of functions and features, I like the user interface of Microsoft PowerPoint, of all Microsoft products, it is easy to use and easy to access.

Cons

Microsoft PowerPoint still does not support AI, I wish they could add AI features to keep up with new technology and that will make our lives easier.

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