Microsoft Powerpoint Online Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 6.9 out of 10

Score

6.9 out of 10

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Microsoft Powerpoint Online are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Ease of Use: Users have appreciated the software's simplicity in creating presentations, technical specifications, and reports. The intuitive interface has made tasks more efficient for many users, especially those with tight deadlines or complex projects that require quick turnaround times.

Customization Options: Reviewers find the multiple slide modes and font styles offer various customization choices to enhance their presentations according to their preferences and branding needs. This flexibility allows users to create visually appealing and engaging content tailored to specific audiences.

Cloud Storage Integration: Some users have highlighted the convenience of automatic saving to cloud storage, eliminating manual save requirements and ensuring data security even when working on different devices or collaborating with team members remotely. This feature provides peace of mind and seamless access to files from anywhere.

Reviews

16 Reviews

Microsoft Powerpoint Online Usability

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 28, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Microsoft Powerpoint Online to create presentation slide decks for sharing information and doing trainings for my team of technicians. It is especially useful when it comes to collaborating with peers on updating the information in the presentation since we can all access the same document and edit it together. This saves us from having to do version control on something as basic as a presentation document.

Pros

Give an option to create easy and presentable slideshows when needed
track collaborative editing with relatively few sync issues
editing tools work reasonably well and are easy to use

Cons

laggier than the desktop application
requires internet access in order to use

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited to make quick and easy slide decks replicating the functionality of the Powerpoint desktop application. Especially useful if you have developed workflows and muscle memory over the years of using the app, but want to have a bit more modern functionality of collaborative editing. There are other tools out there that are better at taking advantage of the always-online feature, but if you dont want to take the time and effort to learn them, Microsoft Powerpoint Online is a good enough tool for most slideshow needs.

Verified User

Technician in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

Powerpoint with Guard Rails for Non Power USers

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

January 28, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Lots of my clients use Microsoft Powerpoint Online for ways to collaborate together, they like that they can link out to it from box.com, and do work right in the browser. The system of working within the company amongst a team is a nice to have, but there are some limitations in Microsoft Powerpoint Online that just seem to work better on the desktop version. For sharing copies, and commenting though, Microsoft Powerpoint Online is a great tool in marking up revisions and doing minor edits.

Pros

Marking up for edits is easy and quickly accessible for team members
Minor updates are easily completed, and the text tool has all any regular user may need
Tools that 'check accessibility' are in a default ribbon, something that is buried in the 'review' tab on desktop
Icons for the animations are clean and accessible

Cons

Master slides are no-where to be seen
Font issues seem to arise occasionally
Not confident that extensions such as bright slide exist for online verisons

Likelihood to Recommend

Depends on the needs of the user, if they are just refreshing slides, and updating basic elements, I believe Microsoft Powerpoint Online is sufficient. It still relies on a regular internet connection, but backs up immediately to whichever service you are using for cloud storage.

For advance users, designers, or people trying to have more management in their decks I believe desktop is the way to go.

Carl Grivakis

Business Owner, Graphic Designer, Visual Design Mentor in Professional Services at Holy Carp Design (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

22 years of experience

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PPT Online Review.

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

October 13, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We provide status updates on projects and create one-pagers on issues we see in the supply chain.

Pros

Multiple people can edit at the same time.
Changes are saved automatically.
Can see where other people are editing in the document.

Cons

Sometimes formatting is difficult. It is different than formatting in the application.
When creating shapes, the shape will not adjust and will be frozen if I want to make it bigger or smaller.
Sometimes certain fonts do not show up the same in the application vs online.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is a good tool when multiple people need to edit a document within a short timeframe or for a certain deadline. However, for a final review of a document, one person should go into the PPT application on a desktop and assess formatting.

Verified User

Engineer in Corporate (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Unfortunately do not keeps up with PowerPoint Legacy

Rating: 3 out of 10

Incentivized

January 15, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Mostly to create presentantions, but also can be used to generate technical specifications and other documents that requires some kind of visual aid or branding. Microsoft Powerpoint Online addresses the need of providing complete communication on any level, from operational to top management, also allowing external communication with suppliers, general public and partners.

Pros

Create presentations
Create technical specifications that requires visual aids
Create reports from assessments and studies

Cons

Collaboration (multiple users on the same file)
Performance (slow and sensitive to heavy media)
UX/UI (complicated and not user friendly)

Likelihood to Recommend

Microsoft Powerpoint Online provides most things the Powerpoint ever offered, so it can be used for eveything that Powerpoint historically have been used. But, in my opinion, the main problem is that the product has not adapted well to the online, highly collaborative scenario - so it cannot keep up with its main competitor at this matter. Also, in my experience, has an extreme performance issue for large media (when compared to its competitors).

Lucas Fernandes Ferreira

Onboard User Experience Strategy in Information Technology at Stellantis (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Online contribution to your presentation

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 11, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Powerpoint online is used throughout our organization. We have Office365 in the plant, available to all employees. So we use it a lot in our presentations, especially in the current moment of pandemic, where 90% of our staff is under a Home Office system. Very important tool in management.

Pros

Conference presentations
Integration with audio, video, animation files.
Online sharing.

Cons

Particularly, I have no difficulties in using it.
I haven't tested it yet, but an online contribution function, like in Excel and Word, would be interesting.

Likelihood to Recommend

Nothing better than the current scenario, where a lot of work is taking place in the home office, for the use of the tool. All the tools in the package contribute immensely, but when it comes to online meetings, Powerpoint helps a lot in presentations.

Gledson Rodrigues

Analista de Rede 2 in Professional Services at Aloo Telecom (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Review of PowerPoint Online

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 3, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Microsoft PowerPoint on a daily basis as it is a powerful tool for presentations, visual drawings and has many other uses. It is very easy to use with some very intelligent features if you can spare sometime to learn using the product more effectively. MS PowerPoint is used by all Departments in our company as this tool comes standard with the MS Office / 365 package and the company has already designed a standard company template in MS PowerPoint for all to use. MS PowerPoint assists in presentations as it can be make presenting more understandable to the audience as well as interesting and fun at the same time. It can also be used to make quick drawings for documents due to its flexibility and ease of use.

Pros

Runs on a web browser
Easy to use
Has many good features such as animations and transitions
Is platform independent due to running on a web browser
Has an offline save feature in event you loose your internet connection, your can still continue working and changes will be saved once back online
Saves presentations in the cloud thus accessible on any device, anywhere and anytime as long as you have an internet connection

Cons

Limited printing features compared to desktop version
Desktop version is abit more smoother than the online version
Presenter view not available on online version

Likelihood to Recommend

It is very well suited for both business and personal use. It is very useful in presentations and for making teaching simpler, fun and interesting.

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

15 years of experience

Microsoft Powerpoint Online Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 1, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft Powerpoint Online is being used across the whole organization. It is being used for internal meetings during presentations to capture and present data and insights. It is being used for presentations to teach existing and potential customers, and it is being used as an educational tool for our employee base when it comes to changes or new ideas.

Pros

Present Data
Customize presentations
Suggest design ideas for those it may not be a strength for
Ease of use

Cons

More features when it comes to chart formatting
Easier to use templates

Likelihood to Recommend

Well Suited:

Presentations (both internal and external)

Finished data (to bring data together and showcase)

Educational settings (to teach an audience, showcase a new story)

Less appropriate:

Where a lot of changes still may happen (as it has so many design elements, sometimes collaboration is hard)

Where data changes often (I find it more useful when I have everything already built and can just plug it in)

Kaytlyn Young

Senior HR Business Partner in Human Resources at Invafresh (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

Online Presentation Software

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

June 1, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are an Ed-Tech Start-up. We provide courses on various topics like App development, website development (Frontend and Backend), Cloud, graphic designing, UI/UX and many more. Due to the pandemic everything has changed. The transition from offline classes to online classes has seen an increase in usage of video conference softwares, presentation tools both for the employees [internal team meetings] and for the students [Instructors need to make some presentation for the students]. Though many people still use Microsoft PowerPoint Desktop version, Microsoft did a great work by introducing the web version. It has its own set of pros and cons and off course you can't completely rule out or outstrip the Desktop version. The best part don't have to click on save button each and everyone time you make a change. Everything is saved automatically [it has cloud storage], but only when you have good network connection.

Pros

Free to use [up to 5 GB cloud storage per person]
No need to click the save button again and again when you make changes. Everything gets saved automatically to cloud [provided you have good network connection]
Web browser based application

Cons

A lot of features from the desktop version are still missing [such as more colours, gradients, eyedropper, effects, and styles]
It currently does not support editing on password protected presentations
Printing of slides is limited in PowerPoint online when compared to desktop version. It allows to print only one slide per page
Cannot be used to make advanced presentations due to lack of features [no presenter view, grid and snapping tool and many more]

Likelihood to Recommend

Some specifications of the web version are - It can open files of up to 2 Gb in size. Earlier this was called as PowerPoint web app[which has less features than the current web version]. You can edit files such as PowerPoint Presentation [.pptx], PowerPoint show [.ppsx], .odp files. But it does not support editing for PowerPoint Template [.potx], PowerPoint 1997-2003 template .pot, .pps, .pptm,.potm [only view feature is supported]. Here the online version will convert them to latest version for editing. Also, the save feature of PowerPoint online saves changes automatically, unlike desktop version where you need to go File> Save as initially, and then click Save after every change. Also password protected or digital signature based documents cannot be edited in web version.

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Corporate (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

One of the best tool to make any kind of presentation and report

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 1, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft Powerpoint Online is used by my whole organisation. People from Onshore also work on Microsoft Powerpoint Online and save it on OneDrive so that we all can access it from anywhere in the organisation.

Pros

Since I work in technical support, we use this tool everyday at the end of the shift to make the reports.
This is one of the best tool and very simple to use.
Since we received so many different severity tickets in my shift and we have to report it to the management and so this tool help a lot and show things clearly.
This tool have so many templates and themes available which makes it very suitable as per the requirement.
I love this tool and amazing to work on it. So many things to explore.

Cons

Sometimes I feel it takes more time to open.
Some functioning is difficult to use,.
We need a little KT to use this tool

Likelihood to Recommend

I love this tool so much personally. Since I am in a job where I have to make the report everyday. I am working as a technical associate and we receive so many incidents of different severity. So at the end of every shift we all have to make the reports and need to show them to the managements, Since onshore and offshore are working in this project So Microsoft Powerpoint Online is the best suitable tool for us to make the report and presentation and they all can access it from anywhere in the organisation.

Md Equbal

Technical Associate in Information Technology at SEARS Holding India (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Review of Microsoft Powepoint Online

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 1, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Microsoft Powerpoint Online in our organization in almost every department. This is the must tool to create effective presentations. To be very specific about the tool our final year students are using it for their project presentation which they have to submit in final and pre final semester, and faculties are using it for paper and research presentations. Overall we are using it on the daily basis. With online office you can create and maintain your presentation on cloud, so that you can access your presentation anywhere any time, and you can also work in a collaborative environment.

Pros

The best part it you can create, share and maintain your presentations online
You can access your presentations from anywhere at any time
You can include flash files and video objects that will make your presentation even better
You can customize your presentation according to your requirements if you don't want to use default templates

Cons

With bulk of data and audio video objects your presentation will take too long to play
You really need a good system configuration if you want to run updated version smoothly on your system

Likelihood to Recommend

This is a really good tool to make your presentation. Presentation is all about pictorial representation of your data this tool provides you lots of features to convert your data into informative bar charts and pie charts. In addition to that you can include prerecorded session videos and flash files to explain the concepts into more details during your presentation.

Akhilesh Arya

Assistant Professor at Geetanjali Institute of Technical Studies, Udaipur (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

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Online Presentation Software

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

June 1, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Free to use [up to 5 GB cloud storage per person]
No need to click the save button again and again when you make changes. Everything gets saved automatically to cloud [provided you have good network connection]
Web browser based application

Cons

A lot of features from the desktop version are still missing [such as more colours, gradients, eyedropper, effects, and styles]
It currently does not support editing on password protected presentations
Printing of slides is limited in PowerPoint online when compared to desktop version. It allows to print only one slide per page
Cannot be used to make advanced presentations due to lack of features [no presenter view, grid and snapping tool and many more]

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Corporate (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience