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Microsoft PowerPoint improves accessibility with options for captions and subtitles
Those who are hard of hearing can now follow along with videos that don't have subtitles baked into them.
Microsoft PowerPoint is an excellent slideshow program, but it can be difficult to create presentations for the hard of hearing. While it's usually fine to have slides with descriptive text on them, things get a little tricky when you want to show a video that doesn't have subtitles baked into it. Fortunately, Microsoft is aiming to fix that with a new update to PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 that lets you upload captions and subtitles for your videos.
Microsoft announces a Loop app and components and more Office features
At this year's Ignite conference, Microsoft announced the Loop app and components for Office apps, along with other Office features.
With Microsoft's Ignite virtual event kicking off today, the floodgates have opened for news coming out of the event. Among the Ignite news, Microsoft Office is getting a big new app and new features for existing apps. The big new app is called Microsoft Loop, and if you remember Microsoft's Fluid framework and components, this is the next evolution of that. We've seen Fluid components come to Teams and other apps, but Microsoft is fully realizing their potential now.