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Magnify slides in PowerPoint and PowerPoint Live in Teams

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Hello, Insiders! We are Alana Brito and Victoria Tran, Product Managers on the PowerPoint team. We are excited to share with you that you can now zoom into your slides when you are presenting them in PowerPoint for Windows, PowerPoint for Mac and PowerPoint Live in Teams. Meeting attendees can also privately magnify slides in PowerPoint Live in Teams.

Magnify slides

We are bringing Magnify Slide to Slide Show view and Presenter view by improving the previous zooming experience in presentation views in PowerPoint for Windows, and making our new Magnify Slide feature available in PowerPoint for Mac and PowerPoint Live.

You can now zoom up to 400% into your slides when presenting using your mouse, trackpad, keyboard, touch, or the Magnify Slide option. Also note that animations and videos will continue to run while your slides are zoomed in.

How it works (Windows, Mac)

To zoom in or out on your slide, do one of the following:

  • Click the Magnify icon on the command bar. 
    • Note that the Magnify icon behavior in Windows has changed and the bright rectangle to select the zoom area has been removed. The slide is centraly zoomed by 200% when the magnify icon is clicked. 
  • Pinch or stretch on the trackpad.
  • Hover over the slide in PowerPoint, and then hold the Ctrl key and scroll with mouse wheel.
    • Note that the zoom out behavior in Windows has changed and zooming out does not open the see all slides view. To see all slides use the shortcut ‘G’.
  • Press the + or – keys.

When zoomed in, you can pan the image with your mouse or touchpad by either tapping or clicking, and holding the slide, and then moving the image.

 

Magnify Slide tool in PowerPoint for Mac

Magnify Slide tool in PowerPoint for Mac

Magnify Slide tool in PowerPoint for Windows

Magnify Slide tool in PowerPoint for Windows

 

How it works (PowerPoint Live in Teams)

Magnify slide animation

Magnify Slide tool in PowerPoint Live

To zoom in or out on your slide, do one of the following:

  • Hover over the slideshow, pinch or stretch on trackpad.
  • Pinch or use the stretch touch gesture (on a touch enabled device).
  • Press the + or – keys.
  • Hover over the slideshow, and then hold the Ctrl key and scroll with mouse wheel.
  • Click the + or – buttons in the More Actions menu.

To pan around your slide, do one of the following:

  • Press the arrow keys.
  • Click and drag using a mouse.
  • Click and drag on a trackpad.
  • Use one finger to touch and drag (on a touch enabled device).

To reset your zoom level to default, 100%, press the Esc key.

Presenters

When a presenter magnifies a slide in PowerPoint Live, all meeting attendees can view and follow along their magnified slide.

Meeting Attendees

When meeting attendees magnify a slide in PowerPoint Live, only they can view the magnified slide.

Scenarios to try

  • As a presenter: Use the Magnify Slide feature to zoom in on small elements on your slide while presenting to help your audience focus on specific areas. (Example: slides with diagrams or charts)
  • As a meeting attendee: Use the Magnify Slide feature to privately zoom into slides with small elements to view content without impacting others in the meeting.
  • As a teacher: Use the Magnify Slide feature in PowerPoint Live in Teams to play “I Spy” activities with students. Create a slideshow with a collage of small images and have students use the Magnify Slide feature to spot objects hidden in plain sight.

Known Limitation

  • Some controls in PowerPoint for Windows and PowerPoint for Mac will not work while zoomed in.

Availability

The feature is available to Beta Channel users running:

  • Windows: Version 2212 (Build 15928.20000) or later
  • Mac: Version 16.69 (Build 22120500) or later

Don’t have it yet? It’s probably us, not you.

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.

Customer feedback

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