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Microsoft Powerpoint

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What is Microsoft Powerpoint?

Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation software designed to allow users to create slide-based presentations including video and images, as well as slide transitions and animations.

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Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using Microsoft Powerpoint
Based on HG Insights installation data
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#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

15.5%

45,376 installations of 292,717

#2 most frequent

Manufacturing

13.1%

38,403 installations of 292,717

#3 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

6.4%

18,609 installations of 292,717

Reviews

What users are saying about Microsoft Powerpoint.
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Microsoft Powerpoint is amazing for users of all ages. Easy to use and reliable.

Verified User
Professional (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Microsoft Powerpoint for presentation slides for internal and external audience.

Pros

  • provides useful, modifiable template slides
  • integrated with chatgpt, so slide templates can be downloaded from prompts
  • easy to use, more design layouts are available with stock image suggestions

Cons

  • hard to generate elegant data visualizations when database is extensive
  • difficult to edit infographics like tables and maps because of limited control panel of design tools
  • Slides can glitch during presentations, requires exiting presentation mode.

Return on Investment

  • Slides are hard to navigate while using Zoom app simultaneously.
  • Microsoft Powerpoint slides can easily look polished with the available template library
  • Easy to save multiple versions of slides, reliably creates presentation files that are shareable between multiple users. No file corruption at all for many years of use.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Google Slides

Other Software Used

Google Slides

Microsoft Powerpoint the best presentation tool yet with room for improvement

Incentivized
Verified User
Strategist in Corporate (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Microsoft Powerpoint to design executive presentations for C-level professionals. This product helps me tell stories based on data, to drive better business decisions. The shortcuts and customizations allow me to be extremely efficient in terms of time. Embedded tools like links to Microsoft excel as well as add-ins for data visualization are extremely helpful in my scope. I also enjoy the online syncing of files, so that I never lose my data and others can collaborate with me at the same time.

Pros

  • Easy, customizable shortcuts like aligning objects, editing fonts and colors, etc.
  • Integration with Microsoft Excel for data visualization and automatically updated charts
  • Templates like table of contents that automatically link to the chapters are very useful

Cons

  • Smart Art can really improve its graphs
  • Tables should be defaulted to redistribute columns and rows
  • Sometimes the links to Excel files get lost and I never understood why
  • I wish there was an easier way to save graph templates and defaults in a same presentation

Return on Investment

  • Microsoft Powerpoint has allowed around 10 people to work simultaneously on an urgent presentation, reducing around 3 days production time to 1 day.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Google Slides and Canva

Other Software Used

Google Slides, Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets

Microsoft Powerpoint my daily tool for creative presentation and documentation.

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Sales (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use it on a Daily Basis to create slides, explain and document topics. Use it as a presentation tool but also as documentation tool. We use it for almost everything in the entire organization. It solves our problems of visualization of business decisions, presentations, basis for everything. The scope is from easy picture editing to creative logo creation.

Pros

  • Provides many options
  • Creative freedom
  • Integration with other applications

Cons

  • Functionality to select all shapes in the entire presentation to one color automatically
  • Merge function
  • Saving under function is in microsoft teams not possible.
  • When pasting from different presentations the pasting with source style or not is too difficult
  • No automatical adjustment of footer name and numbers

Return on Investment

  • Without Microsoft Powerpoint no business in our organization
  • Without it no corporate life possible
  • Super important for daily business

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Prezi, Mural, Kahoot! and KanBo

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft Powerpoint

Rishab MadaanView profile
Software Engineer at Freelance (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My organization allows us to access the entire Microsoft 365 package which means we have access to Microsoft word, Excel, Powerpoint etc. In our organization, we use Microsoft Powerpoint to prepare presentations, helping in management strategies, communicate assessments and providing visual aids to stakeholders.
For my use case, being a Software Developer responsible for designing and developing web applications, I use Microsoft Powerpointto craft presentations for detailing objectives, communicating timelines and going over resource requirements. At the same time, it helps in summarizing technical information into digestible slides for a diverse set of audiences. Most of the Knowledge Transfer sessions which i conduct are also done using Microsoft Powerpoint.

Pros

  • Microsoft Powerpoint allows to choose from a host of templates and themes which makes it really easy to use. With the new suggestion feature, this feature has become even more powerful and helpful
  • The User Interface of Microsoft Powerpoint is quite advanced when compared to other tools in the market such as Google slides
  • I really enjoy how easy it is to integrate media within the slides and format them for visual aid

Cons

  • The formatting tools can be better places. Right now they are a little scattered throughout the UI
  • Microsoft Powerpoint lacks the ability to draw within the slides. Its often easier to use tools like draw.io and import images
  • Apart from the suggested templates, its hard to find new templates. It is less intuitive and suggestion tool, although is pretty powerful, but can be improved

Return on Investment

  • Helps internal teams to create and share KT sessions effectively saving time with onboarding new team members
  • Helps Stakeholders and Senior Management in making decisions quickly. Things which would have been difficult to comprehend without illustrative presentations. This saves time and money
  • Need to use it along with other tools specially when detailed analysis or information needs to be shared which slows down the process

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Google Slides, Figma, Canva and Apple Keynote

Other Software Used

Figma, Google Slides, Jenkins, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, Salesforce CRM Analytics, Atom, GitHub, GitHub Copilot, Atlassian Bitbucket, Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence, TeamCity, Microsoft Teams, Slack, MySQL Workbench, Apache Cassandra, Apache Maven, AWS Cloud9, Gradle Build Tool (Open Source), Microsoft SQL Server

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Incentivized
Billy CoeView profile
IT Manager in Information Technology at Cloud Aero Ltd (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently use Microsoft Powerpoint for creating both in person and remote presentations and learning material. We have paired this product with Ispring which allows us to design interactive and responsive training courses that we can present to an LMS through Scorm files. We also use Microsoft Powerpoint to plan and narrate some of our course material finally exporting this as an MP4. This has been universally easy, and Microsoft Powerpoint is a program that most of the people we work with also have access to.

Pros

  • Page layout
  • Media Insertion
  • Presenter interactions
  • Compatibility with Plugins

Cons

  • Recording of Audio for presentations
  • Application of Colour Schemes
  • A way to turn of layout designer permanently

Return on Investment

  • Our business would struggle without Microsoft Powerpoint
  • We have spent over £2000 on add ons to increase the use of Microsoft Powerpoint
  • It is easy for newer uses to pick up as it works similarly to all Microsoft products

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Google Slides