Releasing Office Remote as a research application is one of many ways in which we hope to gain a deeper understanding of real-world presentation practices. Try it out and let us know what you think. Your feedback is valuable to us, and we will use it to inform the design of new tools, technologies, and applications that have the potential to transform everyday productivity activities for the better.

We love all the great feedback you provided! In this update, your top requested new presentation features for PowerPoint made it in!

Desktop Add-In for Office installed on your PC (download here

Bluetooth on your PC (does not work on PCs without Bluetooth)

Microsoft Office 2013 (does not work with earlier or RT versions)

Open the Office documents you want to project, pick up your phone, and you are ready to present.

Start your PowerPoint slideshow and navigate slides with ease. Large, easy to reach buttons give you direct access to the next and previous slides, while bringing up the list of slide thumbnails gives you fast access to any presentation slide without missing a beat.

Stay on time and on-message with a glanceable timer, progress indicator, and speaker cues extracted from your slide notes.

Want to highlight a key point? Simply activate the touch-based laser pointer for accurate, non-shaky pointing at a distance.

Want to share data? Jump into Excel spreadsheets and hop between sheets and graphs. Wow your audience by controlling complex data slicers from the palm of your hand, bringing your argument to life.

How about more details? Smoothly switch to Word documents, scrolling freely or jumping directly to specific sections or comments.

Here is a full list of features incorporated in Office Remote:

PowerPoint

View thumbnails of current and next slides

Laser point directly on current slide thumbnail

Navigate to next and previous slides

View slide list and jump to slide

View speaker notes on phone

View presentation timer and slide progress

Play and pause embedded videos

Excel

Navigate rows and columns

Change sheets by swiping

Use Slicers, PivotTables and Filters

Jump to any named object in your workbook

Change zoom level

Word