Applies To
PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 for Mac PowerPoint for the web PowerPoint 2024 PowerPoint 2024 for Mac PowerPoint 2021 PowerPoint 2021 for Mac PowerPoint 2019 PowerPoint 2019 for Mac PowerPoint 2016 PowerPoint for iPad PowerPoint for Android tablets PowerPoint for Android phones PowerPoint Mobile

The following feature list isn’t comprehensive, but it gives you an idea of how PowerPoint compares across the Windows, Mac, Online, and mobile platforms.

Audio features

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PowerPoint for the web

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PowerPoint Mobile

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Adding audio

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Playing in slide show

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Playing across slides

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Playing in the background across slides

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Trimming, bookmarking, and fading

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Bi-directional text features

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Support for right-to-left (RTL) languages

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Collaboration features

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Adding, removing, and changing comments

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@mention tags in comments

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Recent-activity notifications

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Revision highlighting

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¹Supported on OneDrive for work or school and SharePoint in Microsoft 365, but not on OneDrive.

Design and layout features

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PowerPoint for the web

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Editing footers, headers, date/time, numbering

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Add a theme

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Editing the Slide Master

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*Not supported on Windows Phone or Android Phones.

Keyboard features

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COMMAND key shortcuts

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CONTROL key shortcuts

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Customizing shortcuts

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Object insertion features

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Adding tables

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Adding shapes

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Adding SmartArt graphics

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Adding charts

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*Not supported on Windows Phone or Android Phones.

Picture features

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Finding and adding pictures

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Picture styles

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Compressing pictures

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Print features

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Printing slides

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Printing handouts

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Slide features

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Adding, removing, and rearranging slides

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Adding, removing, and changing slide transitions

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Playing slide animations

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Video features

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Playing YouTube videos

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Inserting YouTube videos

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Text-formatting features

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Lists

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Hyperlinks

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Add text boxes

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Paragraph formatting

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Highlighting

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Text direction settings

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Slide Show features

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Speaker notes

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Presenter View

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Record presentations

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