Microsoft Sway

About Microsoft Sway
Microsoft Sway is a presentation software that helps businesses create interactive reports, presentations, personal stories, and documentation using the built-in design engine. Administrators can modify images, text alignments, backgrounds, font styles, and grids on a centralized dashboard.
The platform offers a slide transition feature, which enables managers to keep images and text together and build professional designs. Microsoft Sway allows teams to generate multiple color palette options and manage animation levels across images. Supervisors can also utilize images, text, videos, and other multimedia to create professional designs on a unified interface.
Microsoft Sway lets stakeholders apply vertical, horizontal, slideshow, and other layouts to group and display content. Operators can also include photos, visuals, and other multimedia content to build interactive presentations.
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- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Great for quick presentations
Reviewed on 2023/05/12
Pros
Easily create a presentation in no time with the available templates. There is an array of templates with fonts amd pictures ready to go, or you can spend a little more time and customize your presentation.
Cons
It takes a minute to learn how to use sway. A part of that learning is that you are severely limited in customization.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Simple & Professional Content Creation Tool
Reviewed on 2022/04/14
Microsoft Sway helps me easily create impressive presentations on the cloud. It saves me time when...
Microsoft Sway helps me easily create impressive presentations on the cloud. It saves me time when I create content like a digital story or a presentation using the Start from a topic feature. It allows me to choose a topic then Sway suggests content and information around it from the internet.
Also, I use it as a learning activity tool for students to empower them to express their thoughts by creating digital content and sharing it on the internet.
Pros
Microsoft Sway is an easy-to-use application for content creation. It has pre-designed layouts and a rich assets library that makes it easy to create engaging content. It doesn't require previous experience in design or content creation software. Also, It's effective for business presentations and students' e-portfolio.
Cons
I find Sway a bit slow when I embed it in web pages using the iframe sharing method. It takes more time to load compared to the entire web page elements.
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Microsoft Sway has seamless integration with Microsoft OneDrive, and it suits a variety of needs and use cases like digital story creation, presentation, and e-portfolio.- Industry: Cosmetics
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Sway with me
Reviewed on 2024/12/23
I have gone back to this when I can in my classrooms as it I more colourful, and interactive for...
I have gone back to this when I can in my classrooms as it I more colourful, and interactive for students.
Pros
The interactive nature of the presentations.
Cons
Lots of scrolling to be able to find the say that I am looking for
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
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Reviewed on 2022/11/03
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Easy add text, images, videosDescent image albums
Cons
I can't edit the design with my own pictures
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for Free Trial
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Converting your entire Vision to digital with Sway
Reviewed on 2023/05/04
After I met Sway, I gave up on all simple and visual presentations. I said hello to functional...
After I met Sway, I gave up on all simple and visual presentations. I said hello to functional presentations that are much more active and professional for the eye and purpose. Thanks to its simple and user-friendly interface, it took much less time to use and get used to. we are able to produce much more rational solutions, especially thanks to its transfers and integration with other MS products.
Pros
I would say Microsoft has an alternative to PowerPoint. It has taken it one step further with Sway. A much more lively, effective and homogeneous result was obtained. It can be used to create more effective and visual reports, presentations, communication screens or bulletins. Libraries, templates, plugins in its repository help to reveal more different works. The software structure is simple and has the simplicity of other MS products. As if they will use it for the first time, they will think that they have been using this program for a long time. It can be used in all personal or professional areas.
Cons
A missing or negative feature cannot be written for Sway. But those who have not met or used Sway are not aware of their loss.
Microsoft Sway FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Microsoft Sway.Q. What type of pricing plans does Microsoft Sway offer?
Microsoft Sway offers the following pricing plans:
- Pricing model: Free Version
- Free Trial: Not Available
It is available for free of cost.
Q. Who are the typical users of Microsoft Sway?
Microsoft Sway has the following typical customers:
2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Microsoft Sway support?
Microsoft Sway supports the following languages:
Chinese, Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish
Q. Does Microsoft Sway support mobile devices?
Microsoft Sway supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Microsoft Sway integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations Microsoft Sway has
Q. What level of support does Microsoft Sway offer?
Microsoft Sway offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat
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