Microsoft teases the future of Powerpoint with new designer tools

Microsoft's latest Office 365 update is making Powerpoint a lot smarter.

The company just unveiled two new tools for Powerpoint, Designer and Morph that make it easier for people to add custom photos and animations to slides. The tools will be available to Office 365 subscribers in the coming weeks.

At a basic level, Designer makes it easier to add photos to slides. Previously, adding an image dropped it on top of the slide, and you had to manually resize, crop and make other adjustments to format the image within the slide. With the new Designer tool, Powerpoint will suggest layouts based on the image and slide type. Read more...