

It’s perfect for the Q&A period in your presentation - you’ll no longer have to hit the back or forward button a bunch of times in order to bring up just the right slide. It gives users a way to easily navigate right to the first slide in a section. Microsoft PowerPoint is getting a feature called Zoom. It will become generally available for all Office 365 subscribers later, and it will come to more platforms over time. Researcher is available today in Word 2016 on Windows desktops for people participating in the Office Insider program. The launch of Researcher follows Google’s introduction of Google search into Google Docs. Researcher draws from the Bing Knowledge Graph to provide information from books and media articles, and over time the feature will add more sources, like the Stanford Encyclopedia, Alexander said. “It’s not just web search,” Alexander said. And you won’t find yourself in some random Wikipedia rabbit hole, because the search for additional information happens in a panel on the right side of your Word document. Explicit content won’t appear in search results, so you won’t accidentally import it into your work. This makes it easy to add a quote and even generate proper academic citations for use in papers.

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With its use of machine learning, both locally and online, Editor is a good example of Microsoft’s efforts to improve people’s productivity, not unlike the Cortana virtual assistant in Windows 10 or the Sway presentation app that automatically arranges content in an aesthetically pleasing fashion.Īlongside Editor, Word is also getting a feature called Researcher, which will give users a way to find and incorporate additional information from outside sources.
