In our very recent article we reviewed some new features of the new PowerPoint 2016 and in today’s article we are going to quick explore one of the new feature in PowerPoint 2016 called as “Inking”. This feature is not quite new but it is something that wasn’t accessible directly within ribbon.
In earlier version of PowerPoint, the inking feature was only available on the slideshow view whereas in PowerPoint 2016 you can access it right under Review section and perform annotating right away on the current slide.
On clicking Start Inking you get few more special options to perform this in a pretty keen manner, you can select Pen to draw, or select Highlight to mark text etc.
And once you are done marking, you can click on stop inking, save to cloud and share it with your team for further edits, you can also convert those markings to shapes by clicking on the Convert to Shapes option on Pens section and then clicking on the marking, or even better select the Convert to Shapes option first and then start drawing.
No matter how you do it, the annotations will automatically get converted to shapes once you leave the review section.
Enabling this feature does prove that the Microsoft is making efforts to make PowerPoint more collaborative tool, and we do agree with the Microsoft’s intentions because this indeed will help collaborators in new perspective.
That’s the short review of Inking. Download Office 2016 preview and try this for yourself.
