PowerPoint is top-drawer presentation software, and the 2016 Mac edition gains a handful of useful additions to keep the tool vital. Pros Borrowed ribbon: The 2016 Mac edition appropriates the Windows' version of the PowerPoint ribbon. Tabs on the ribbon offer access to design tools, transitions, animations, and more. New Design tab: The ribbon's Design tab offers a selection of themes and variants. Click a theme to see a preview of it with your slide. You can also choose fonts, colors, and background styles.
Edit slides on the go and add animations, transitions, charts, or speaker notes right on your device. Therefore, opening up a PowerPoint presentation in Keynote is pretty straightforward. On your Mac, open PowerPoint and browse to the PPTX or PPT file. Then, click on Open to launch into Keynote. Choose File > Open in Keynote and browse to your PPTX file to start converting it. Now, you'll see the presentation in Keynote.
Revamped presenter view: The new presenter view does a nice job of displaying your speaker notes, the next slide, and your relative location in your slide deck. Sharing: The ribbon's Share This Presentation button lets you invite collaborators on your current presentation or send a copy via email. To add collaboration, the comments pane let you make and reply to comments in slides and offers threaded comments.
OneDrive: You can easily store presentations on OneDrive, where you can access them from Windows and mobile versions of PowerPoint. Cons Lacks some OS X features: PowerPoint for Mac borrows some useful features from the Windows side, but it is very much a Mac app. It now supports Multi-Touch gestures, for example. Still, it doesn't use OS X's Autosave or support the ability to rename, tag, and change the location of a document in a document's title bar.
Bottom Line Apple's Keynote is a natural choice for Mac users looking for presentation software. But the Mac version of PowerPoint - with its new design tools, ability to customize themes and share presentations, and availability across platforms and devices - is a solid, easy-to-use tool for building effective presentations and should not be overlooked. More Resources.
Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 is primed for use on tablets and phones, so you can swipe and tap your way through presentations. There are many features which make the new PowerPoint attractive. Presenter View automatically adapts to your projection set-up, and you can even use it on a single monitor, Themes now come with variations, which make it simpler to hone in on the look you want, and when you're working with others, you can add comments to ask questions and get feedback. Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 gives you several ways to start your next presentation using a template, a theme, a recent presentation, a not-so-recent presentation, or a blank one.
You can send out a link to the slides, or start a full-on Lync meeting that displays the deck with audio and IM. Your audience can join you from anywhere, on any device using Lync or the Office Presentation Service. PowerPoint now supports more multimedia formats, such as.mp4 and.mov with H.264 video and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) audio, and more high-definition content. You can give feedback in PowerPoint with the new Comments pane. And you can show or hide comments and revisions.
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Last Updated: July 10, 2018 PowerPoint remains the dominant software for creating presentations on Mac so we’ve taken a look at the best PowerPoint templates for Mac. Microsoft Office doesn’t include many decent default templates so here are some ways to spice-up your presentations with a variety of different paid and free PowerPoint templates for Mac downloads. Note that these PowerPoint templates for Mac work on Windows as well so they’re also suitable for PC users.
Most of these PowerPoint templates you simply drag into your Microsoft Office Templates folder and they’re then ready to use whether you’re on a PC or Mac. If you’re unsure how to install these templates on your Mac, scroll down to the end of the article for installation instructions. The Best PowerPoint Templates for Mac Templates for PowerPoint is a collection of 64 elegant PowerPoint templates from the Mac App Store. There are 20 master slides with a mix of illustrations, graphs and tables. SlideModel has hundreds of PowerPoint templates for almost any kind of business presentation.
They’re not free though – it’s designed for serious PowerPoint users that regularly need new templates with pricing plan ranging from $59.90 per quarter to $199.90 per year. New templates are constantly added and you can edit any of the slides you buy. TemplatesWise is a collection fo free PowerPoint Templates for Mac. The themes cover business but also abstract designs for more general presentations. TemplatesWise also includes music loops to add to presentations.
All of the templates are free to use with no sign-up required. Best PowerPoint Templates is a collection of free templates and PowerPoint backgrounds covering everything from abstract templates to technology and “mystical” templates. Templates are rated by users and you can also browse templates by colour. PPTTemplate is a slick collection of PowerPoint templates covering a huge range of topics and themes. The templates can be used for both personal and business use but a reference to the PPTTemplate is requested. Remember that you can download PowerPoint templates from the Microsoft Office Online site (formerly Microsoft Office Live) although they’re only for use with PowerPoint Online and the selection is extremely small. How To Install PowerPoint Templates On Mac Installing PowerPoint templates on Mac is simply a case of putting the PowerPoint template.pot files into your Microsoft Office templates folder.
Just follow these instructions:. Right click or Option Key click on the templates or files that you want to save on your Mac. Once saved, move them to this folder: /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates/My Templates If you have problems finding it, select “Go to Folder” from the Go Menu in Finder: and paste in the folder location: /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates/My Templates. To then access the templates in PowerPoint go to the File Menu and select Project Gallery. Click My Templates and then simply select the template that you want to use. If you have any problems with any of the PowerPoint template for Mac downloads featured in this article, let us know in the comments below.