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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
VU
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
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)
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.
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.
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.
Microsoft Powerpoint Online is used by the whole company to make presentations. Earlier we only were using PowerPoint desktop app but now with the Online version having all the same functionality, people are using it too for making and delivering the presentations and also teams are collaborating on presentations online.
Pros
Great presentation software it is with options of multi slide modes
Multiple formats to save your presentation file in are available like pdf etc
Multiple Font styles are available and also multiple effects
Cons
Inserting objects like excel files etc doesnt work that great
Can't add custom video based templates
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft Powerpoint Online is the software which we are using from childhood days for all presentations and I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to create a presentation. Multiple font styles, effects make the slides interactive.
Primarily, our organization uses Microsoft PowerPoint online to develop collaborative presentations that require a good deal of input from a variety of people. As a company that operates from multiple geographic locations, using the online version allows us to plug in a wide range of people in a single presentation. Examples of the kinds of presentations we develop collaboratively are pitch presentations and quarterly or annual reporting presentations.
Pros
Microsoft PowerPoint online allows for collaboration across offices and teams. That's a big deal and it resolves version control issues.
Microsoft PowerPoint online lets us download a PowerPoint native presentation that is easily opened in the desktop version with minimal issues.
The online version really does a good job of emulating the offline experience, so there's virtually no learning curve for new users.
Cons
Running a presentation from PowerPoint online has been a disappointing experience. Things just don't react as smoothly as they do in the offline version because we're relying on sometimes iffy internet connections.
Video does not play well when it's embedded and played through the online version.
Downloading a PPT file that was created online creates almost no inconsistencies, but in my experience uploading a PPT to the online version that was created offline sometimes does create issues with fonts and formatting.
Likelihood to Recommend
Anyone who needs to use Microsoft PowerPoint collaboratively with team members in different locations would do well to let PowerPoint online take care of the dirty work. If you experience issues related to version control - and who doesn't? - this is a worthwhile investment. Plus, PowerPoint online is really the gold standard. Other online software suites do things similarly, but learning curves are eliminated altogether if you are collaborating with a team member who's already familiar with PowerPoint.
