(Originally published on Aug 31, 2023 by John Teichman)
Hi, Microsoft 365 Insiders! My name is John Teichman and I'm a Product Manager on the PowerPoint team. I am excited to share two new exciting enhancements to comments in PowerPoint for Mac, Windows, and web: Reactions and Blue Dots.
Comments are a great way to collaborate with others in PowerPoint. We’ve added reactions to the Comment field as a quick visual way for you to respond to a comment. With reactions, you don’t have to type a reply - you can quickly acknowledge a comment if you agree with it. Just click the Like button.
When you collaborate with others in PowerPoint, you can see that changes have been made by others on a slide by a blue dot on the corresponding thumbnail slide. With Blue Dots for Comments, you can now visually scan the Comments window and quickly identify comments or replies that have been added since you last viewed the presentation.
Reactions and Blue Dots in PowerPoint are available on the web and to Current Channel (Preview) users running:
Features are released over some time to ensure things are working smoothly. We highlight features that you may not have because they’re slowly releasing to larger numbers of Insiders. Sometimes we remove elements to further improve them based on your feedback. Though this is rare, we also reserve the option to pull a feature entirely out of the product, even if you, as an Insider, have had the opportunity to try it.
We hope you love these PowerPoint features. To submit feedback, please click Help > Feedback in PowerPoint and let us know what you think.
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