Microsoft Powerpoint helps us create striking presentations and awards ceremonies
March 17, 2025

Microsoft Powerpoint helps us create striking presentations and awards ceremonies

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Powerpoint

Microsoft Powerpoint is used for the presentations that matter most in our business. When I need a slideshow that makes an impact, I'll use Microsoft Powerpoint over Google Slides, for example. In particular, I use for awards presentations. I organise a couple of major awards ceremonies and Microsoft Powerpoint helps me handle the on-stage presentation with ease. We can embed images and videos, use effective transitions and attach music if needed. It's easily controllable and widely used by the AV industry meaning we can be confident that whatever our awards ceremony, we'll be able to use Microsoft Powerpoint.

Pros

  • Enables easy embedding of pictures, videos and music.
  • Handles transitions between slides easily
  • Allows you to copy slides to give you a head start on new slides where you want similar formatting.
  • Allows you to test your presentation and time it.

Cons

  • The automatically generated designs are hit and miss. Sometimes they work, but often they don't. Better automation would be helpful
  • Easy integration of live social media feeds would be an interesting addition.
  • Connection to stock music library options would be useful.
  • Enabled me to prepare an awards ceremony presentation on my own, rather than employing an expensive AV agency to prepare it. This has saved about £3000 a year.
  • Helped me to secure future sponsors by impressing guests in the audience with the smoothness of the presentation.
  • Reduced the need for additional meetings or several extra AV staff for awards presentations. One external AV controller has proved to be enough - saving about £800 per awards ceremony.
Microsoft Powerpoint is highly intuitive. It's add to add new elements, such as text or picture boxes, graphics such as tables, or videos. The transitions and animations on slides are very simple to apply and it is easy to test them and see how they look. Adding music is a simple case of uploading a file. There are automated options to help you get started - these could be better, but can be suitable as a starting point or give you ideas for different designs you could try.
Google Slides is like a Microsoft Powerpoint lite. It has similar functionality in enabling you to add items easily to a slide deck and has good shareability for businesses that use Google apps. It lacks some of the sophistication of Microsoft Powerpoint - I find slide decks created in Slides tend not to look quite as polished, but it is fine for internal presentations.

Do you think Microsoft Powerpoint delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Microsoft Powerpoint's feature set?

Yes

Did Microsoft Powerpoint live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Microsoft Powerpoint go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Microsoft Powerpoint again?

Yes

Microsoft Powerpoint is ideal for delivery company presentations where you want to convey information in a visually striking way - one that use images, video, graphics, sound or tables for example. It's easy to build a slide deck and add different elements, duplicate or remove slides, re-order them and then spin through them to focus on those that matter during your presentation. It's also well suited to awards ceremonies where you have an AV controller handling the music to fade in and out at the right moment. It's less suited to awards ceremonies where you are the sole controller, as there is less flexibility than you might want over sound.

Microsoft Powerpoint Reliability

Scaling up use of Microsoft Powerpoint would be a simple case of buying further licences. The software is intuitive and therefore training demands from scaling it to more departments or more individuals would be relatively straightforward. Google Slides may be easier to share among those organisations that use Google's suite of apps, however.
I've never had any issues with its availability. As it is installed on my machine, it's ready when I need it, online or offline. Creating large slide decks with complex elements like video and audio doesn't affect its stability. The only limitation would be the capability of your own computer, as far as I can tell.
The performance is very strong. It loads reasonably quickly. Large presentations load relatively quickly too, given their complexity, and once loaded each slide is readily available. It's easy to scroll up and down through your slide deck and go to the slide you want. Videos, pictures and music all load on demand, controllable by clicks.

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