Share your presentation

  1. Select Share on the ribbon.

  2. Enter the names or email addresses of the people you want to share with.

    Or select the drop-down to change permissions. Allow editing is checked by default. To change permission to view only, uncheck this box and select Apply.

  3. Include a message if you'd like and select Send.

You can also select Get a link to create a link that you can copy into an email.

Share icon and dialog box in PowerPoint

Co-author a presentation

After you share your file, you can work together at the same time.

  • Under Share, see who is also working in the file.

  • Colored flags show where each person is editing.

Shows the icon indicating someone else is collaborating on a slide in PowerPoint 2016

Comments in presentations

  1. Select Review > New Comment. Or select New if the Comments pane is open.

  2. In the Comments pane, type your message in the box and press Enter.

  3. Select Reply and type your response.

  4. Select the Next or Back buttons to go between comments and slides.

  5. Select the X in the upper corner of the comment.

Add a comment

Chat while editing

  1. If there's another person editing your file, select their image or initials in the upper right corner to open a chat window.

  2. Type some text and press Enter.

Note: Your conversations won't be saved when you close a file.

People and chat

Show changes

  1. Open the original version of the presentation that you saved on your computer.

  2. Select Review > Compare, and then Compare.

  3. In the Choose File to Merge with Current Presentation box, find the version of your presentation that you saved to the shared location, select it, and then choose Merge.

  4. If reviewers left comments in your presentation, you’ll see them under Slide Changes in the Revisions task pane.

Slide Changes

Version history

  1. Select File > Info > Version history.

  2. In the Version history pane, select a version to open and view it in a separate window.

The Version History button inside the the File Tab.

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