PowerPoint 2016 for Mac is now available and we want to show you how it can help you present your ideas. While PowerPoint 2016 for Mac includes hundreds of improvements and changes, today we are going to look at some of the features that improve the look of your presentations and discuss new presentation and collaboration features.

Theme Variants feature

PowerPoint 2016 for Mac includes the theme Variants feature—providing you a simple way to switch between various color schemes and designs for your selected theme. Just click a Variant to see how it will look in your presentation. Every theme included with PowerPoint for Mac 2016 includes Variants, giving you even more design options for your presentation.

New Format Options pane

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The new Format Options pane places all the Format properties right next to your content. As you adjust values, you can see your changes in the slide. This lets you quickly try different shape and text options to see what works best for your content.

Redesigned Animations pane

The Animations pane was redesigned for PowerPoint 2016 for Mac—bringing the power of the rich animation engine right next to your content. This allows for rapid changes and experimentation, helping you build both simple and complex animations more quickly and easily.

Improved media experience

As we modernized the Office 2016 for Mac suite, we also improved the performance of our media playback engine. Using the latest Apple technologies, your embedded media will play back smoothly and reliably.

Introducing the Comments pane

Gone are the days of adding shapes to act as comments when collaborating with others. With the new Comment pane, you can add and reply to comments right next to your slides—allowing you to easily track discussion threads.

Updated co-authoring conflict resolution

Occasionally, as you collaborate on the same presentations with your colleagues in real time (yes, PowerPoint allows real-time collaboration!), you may encounter conflicts. PowerPoint 2016 for Mac includes an improved experience to help you evaluate and resolve the conflicts, so you can get back to your work quickly and with confidence.

Improved Presenter View

Once your presentation is ready to go, the improved Presenter View in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac offers you more tools with an improved layout, leaving you in complete control. Take and read speaker notes, move between slides in the Thumbnail pane, and even resize each piece to fit your needs. We’ll remember where you had everything when you come back.

But that certainly isn’t all! In addition to hundreds of other changes in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac, the Office 2016 for Mac suite includes a number of great updates including an updated ribbon and keyboard shortcuts familiar to Windows users. Office 2016 for Mac is also fully cloud-connected, looks great on Retina displays, and includes richer collaboration and sharing tools. See what’s new in Office 2016 for Mac.

More than ever, the PowerPoint team is listening to your feedback and regularly updating the app for Office 365 subscribers. The best way to provide your feedback is to click the smiley face icon in the upper right corner to tell us what you like or don’t like.

What are you waiting for? Download Office 2016 for Mac now! If you don’t have an Office 365 subscription, you can start a free 30-day trial today.

—Derek Johnson, senior program manager for the PowerPoint team

Beautiful presentations for everyone. By everyone.

With its powerful tools and dazzling effects, Keynote makes it easy to create stunning and memorable presentations. You can even use Apple Pencil on your iPad to create diagrams or illustrations that bring your slides to life. And with real‑time collaboration, your team can work together, whether they’re on Mac, iPad, or iPhone, or using a PC.

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Presentations as polished as your ideas.

Right from the beginning, Keynote sets the stage for a compelling presentation. A clean, intuitive interface puts important tools front and center, so everyone on your team can easily add impressive charts, edit photos, and incorporate cinematic effects. And Rehearse Mode for iPhone or iPad lets you practice on the go, with the current or next slide, notes, and clock — all in one view.

Start with a gorgeous layout.

Choose from over 30 eye‑catching themes that instantly give your presentation a professional look. Or create your own master slides, background images, and page‑by‑page customization.

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Make every slide stand out.

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Liven up slides with photos, galleries, math equations, charts, and over 700 customizable shapes. Take a photo or scan a document with your iPhone, and Continuity Camera can send it straight to Keynote on your Mac.

Add spectacular transitions and animations.

Animate objects along a path using Apple Pencil or your finger on your iPhone or iPad. Add drama to your presentation with more than 30 cinematic transitions and effects for objects and text, including Magic Move.

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Record and edit audio clips.

Add and adjust narration, notes, and sounds for people to play in your presentations.

Communicate beautifully.

Add some style to your words by filling text with color gradients and even photos — with just a tap.

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Play to the crowd with Keynote Live.

With Keynote Live, you can invite many people in different places to watch your presentation in real time on a Mac, iPad, iPhone, or the web. No projector required.

Edit on iPad like never before.

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Use Keynote with Magic Keyboard, a mouse, or a trackpad for a new way to work with your documents.

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Add illustrations and handwritten comments for more beautiful presentations with Apple Pencil on your iPad.

Collaborate with anyone.
Anywhere.

Work together in the same presentation, from across town or across the world. You can see your team’s edits as they make them — and they can watch as you make yours, too. Just select a name on the collaborator list to jump to anyone’s cursor.

Work on any presentation. On any device.

You don’t work in one place on just one device. Store your documents on iCloud and you can easily access them whether you’re on a Mac, iPhone, or iPad or even on the web using Keynote for iCloud.

Work together in real time on presentations stored on iCloud or Box.

Everyone can collaborate — whether they’re on Mac, iPad, iPhone, or a PC web browser using Keynote for iCloud.

Unlock documents with a touch or a glance.

Open password-protected files in a snap with Touch ID or Face ID on compatible devices.

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Microsoft PowerPoint friendly.

Teaming up with someone who uses Microsoft PowerPoint? Keynote makes it a great working relationship. You can save Keynote documents as PowerPoint files. Or import and edit PowerPoint documents right in Keynote. Most popular PowerPoint features are supported, too. Now it’s no problem to work on the same project. Even if you use different apps.

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