Microsoft's new PowerPoint tools make your presentations way less boring

It's not a secret that PowerPoint presentations can be really, really dull. The last thing you want on a Friday afternoon is a bland slide deck and transitions from the 1990s, so Microsoft is trying to make things a lot less boring. In the coming weeks, Office 365 subscribers will get two new tools for PowerPoint that use the cloud to really make presentations look better, or feel more alive with some cool motion effects.

Microsoft is tackling the temptation to create boring slides by adding a new PowerPoint Designer feature. Like the name implies, Designer lets you create pretty slides really quickly. Microsoft has had a variety of themes in PowerPoint over the years, but Designer is different. Graphic designers have helped Microsoft...

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