{"id":1121,"date":"2019-06-18T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-za\/2019\/06\/18\/powerpoint-ai-upgrade-designer-major-milestone-1-billion-slides\/"},"modified":"2022-06-28T10:51:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T17:51:37","slug":"powerpoint-ai-upgrade-designer-major-milestone-1-billion-slides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-za\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2019\/06\/18\/powerpoint-ai-upgrade-designer-major-milestone-1-billion-slides\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerPoint AI gets an upgrade and Designer surpasses a major milestone of 1 billion slides"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s face it\u2014presentations can be stressful. You have a goal and you want to be successful, and that\u2019s when the fear, stress, and discomfort becomes real. Are you ready? Will your presentation help you land your message? Can you deliver the presentation effectively and in a way that maximizes your success? These are all real emotions that many people face when tasked with a making a presentation.<\/p>\n

A few years ago, the PowerPoint<\/a> team took a bet on artificial intelligence (AI) and started the PowerPoint Designer effort. We aspired to help our customers overcome some of the fear around building an effective slide by offering up suggested slide designs. We started with making photo slides compelling, eventually adding capabilities around transforming text slides into their more visual\u2014and hopefully impactful\u2014counterparts like process diagrams and timelines. More recently, we started complementing text with iconography.<\/p>\n

Today, we\u2019re excited to share that not only have we hit a major milestone in PowerPoint Designer usage, we\u2019re also announcing new Designer capabilities that suggests high quality content to jumpstart authoring and provides perspective suggestions for quantitative content. And yes, in a \u201cbut wait, there\u2019s more\u201d moment, we\u2019re ready to share that our AI effort is moving beyond Designer\u2014with our new Presenter Coach\u2014intended to help our users build confidence in their presenting abilities.<\/p>\n

Designer in PowerPoint crosses the 1 billion slides mark<\/h3>\n

Every day Designer offers up millions of slide suggestions to PowerPoint<\/a> users. When someone chooses to insert a design suggestion, we know we\u2019ve provided them value. In fact, the adoption rate of these slides has grown astronomically over the last few years, and in April 2019, we reached a major milestone of 1 billion slides created with Designer since launch!<\/p>\n

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Building on our momentum, today we\u2019re announcing several new capabilities in Designer that allow people in large enterprises, and small and medium-sized businesses, to use branded templates and support those who don\u2019t have a branded template to get started quickly with theme ideas. These new capabilities are designed to help people make effective slides and presentations with minimal time and effort while staying in their creative flow.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Get intelligent design recommendations and stay on brand with Designer for branded templates<\/h3>\n

One of our biggest asks from customers has been to make Designer work seamlessly with a company\u2019s branded templates. With the launch of Designer for branded templates, companies can now make sure the design recommendations people see meet their corporate branding and visual identity guidelines.<\/p>\n

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