Microsoft PowerPoint

helen heffner

I LOVE Powerpoint on my laptop, but the mobile version seems very difficult to use. When I clicked on "blank presentation", I expected it to be, well, you know, BLANK--not to have designs automatically assigned to my project. I wanted to work completely from scratch, and the mobile app gives me no options to do so. Very disappointed.

Goldfish

I thought maybe the PowerPoint app would be better than the one in Office, but it's not. Transparent pngs have a black background added for some odd reason, rendering them useless, won't import images half the time, can't edit slides- it acts like it will let you, but it won't. Its barely functional, on the slides I'm editing it doesn't actually show what has been added, just a blank slide, so I can't remove it. Idk if it's incompatible with my phone or what but I can't get this to function.

N S

Using the Galaxy Tab S8 and the drawing features do not work well AT ALL. When drawing notes without it being in slide show mode, it reads the palm and moves stuff around. When drawing in slide show mode, the ink tools are very limited and I hate that you have to keep draging down for them to show up. You also have to hit "ink" everytime you change tools. You cant change the size of the stroke and you only have 5 colors. It glitches out A LOT, no promt to keep, and my written NOTES DONT SAVE.

Barry Stinson

I'd have to call PowerPoint an intuitive app because my skills are puny. I refer to myself as "not exactly Bill freaking Gates" with technology. Nonetheless, with just a little Googling and a bit of help from a friend (for slideshow fades), I was able to put together a 230 slide educational program that pleases me greatly...and I'm a tough audience. It's easy to compose and edit text, insert photos and rearrange the sequence of slides. Yes, I'm a big fan of PowerPoint.

A Google user

Don't get me wrong, this is good, but it is very basic. It lacks a lot of features, but that's expected bc this is an app for phones. Still, keeps freezing on me, then crashing. File Source: originally local, then had to email it back and forth with my partners for my group project, but still saved a local copy. File Type: pptx Repro the issue: not sure what that means, but switching apps and going back, it crashed. Autosave worked, and once I reopened the app, it worked fine.

A Google user

Can no longer present without the app just shutting down. Very embarrassing in front of a large audience. It is useless to me to pay for a monthly service if this doesn't work. The presentation view no longer works. Arg!!! answers: file source: local card (same as I was using before November) file type: .pptx from 365 to reproduce, push the new presentation button. it happens every time. I'm on a samsung note 9. I was using it for at least a year without a problem before November.

A Google user

How do you just have audio as an insert option. Whats the point of the option if this option is half-baked. The mobile version in of itself is half-baked compared to the desktop version which not only provides all the tools available with a simple click. They also provide the necessary tools to utilize the basic tools to even make a powerpoint presentation to start. The things done in powerpoint mobile could be done in word. Theres almost no difference which makes this app pointless.

A Google user

Know how when you want to use a picture for the backdrop of your presentation, but you don't know the exact dimensions of the slide? A photo is copied / pasted (or inserted) onto the blank, then the object gets distorted in order to get it to fit the page. Well, it would be great to have an "object snap" feature that clicks the picture size, position, and location onto the sheet, instantly. BAM! Perfect fit!

A Google user

This app is alright. I'd give it 5 stars because it's super convenient and easy to use, BUT it glitches a lot. My husband and I use this app for mandatory projects. We've used it on several different phones. It's a bit glitchy, especially if it's been open for a long period of time. It becomes less responsive and starts to delete random words and letters, move your cursor about, etc. I close. It and restart and it works fine again for a bit.

A Google user

I was under the impression that paying for a full subscription would allow me to use all the features, on a Chromebook. That is not accurate. The animations are much more difficult to manage. The "insert photo" function malfunctions regularly requiring to close the application and reopen it to insert photos. Probably get the same functionality out of Google slides.