Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jonathan Ko

Christopher Michael Maloney

Shen Wang

Alexandre Gueniot

Onur Onder

John R Schilling

Cheng-Kai Chen

Sharena Pari-Monasch

Jonathan Chung

Andrew Kunz

Aspects of the present disclosure provide for determining user input of a presentation. Specifically, aspects disclosed herein provide differentiating between interacting with selectable objects within a slide and scrolling between slides, editing a selectable object within a slide, scrolling between slides, viewing off slide content, zooming out from a slide view, and zooming in to a slide view.

Merged experience of reading and editing with seamless transition

A method and system for organizing slides by analyzing content and offering alternative solutions for placing content on the slides in an effective and visually interesting organization is provided. The presentation application automatically generates alternative design suggestions for the provided content that effectively utilize the slide space pursuant to analytics performed on the content. Providing alternative design suggestions for organizing content on a slide assists in quickly and easily creating presentations that effectively utilize slide space.

Automatic presentation of slide design suggestions

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