With PowerPoint Web App, you can review your team's slides or step through a presentation in your web browser, without waiting for PowerPoint to open the presentation on your computer.Screenshot showing a preview of a PowerPoint for the web presentation.

  1. Go to a document library on your SharePoint site, locate the PowerPoint presentation you want to see, select More Actions (...) > Preview.

  2. Click the arrow buttons at the bottom of the display to step through the slides or click View in full screen (in the bottom-right corner) to play the slide show in full-screen view.

Quickly add some slides

If your colleague wants you to add a few slides to the team presentation, you can quickly do that in your browser.

  1. Go to a document library on your SharePoint site, and then select the PowerPoint presentation, which will open in your web browser.

  2. From the Insert tab, select New Slide.

If you want to make changes to the presentation beyond what you can do in the browser, do this:

  1. Go to a document library on your SharePoint site, locate the PowerPoint presentation you want to edit, select More Actions (...) > Open > Open in app.

  2. In PowerPoint, save the presentation. It's saved back on the SharePoint site.

Print from the browser

To print the slides, select the File tab, and then select Print.

Note: A PDF viewer is required for printing in PowerPoint Web App.

More information

For more information about using PowerPoint Web App see PowerPoint Web App at a glance

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