Even if you're the rare person who enjoys putting together a PowerPoint presentation, you'll likely agree it can be tedious. You spend just as much time moving around text, photos and formatting layouts as you do on the content you're actually presenting in the slides.

But now, after 10 months of quiet testing, Microsoft rolled out a tool on Wednesday that aims to turn boring work and school presentations into ones that are more visually appealing.

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Sway, which Microsoft calls a digital storytelling tool, joins its suite of Office programs and is available as a Sway app for Windows 10 to anyone with a free Microsoft account and to Office 365 for business and education customers.

While there are an abundance of tools already available that help users create visual presentations such as Prezi and Haiku, Sway has a smart design engine that packages what you want in a project (YouTube videos, photos, GIs, tweets and other multimedia content) and formats it for you.

Sway works with the cloud, so users can select photos or videos from there, as well as shots from your smartphone and social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Vine, etc.) and drop them into the platform. You can rearrange photos, change the layout and reorder content; Sway automatically reformats presentations on phones, tablets, laptops and PCs, too. Another feature lets people collaborate on Sway projects.

When the company launched Sway in preview last year, thousands of early users played around with the platform. Singer Daria Musk documented her songwriting process for fans; hover over the Sway below (it can be a noun or a verb, according to Microsoft) and move it forward via the arrows located at the bottom right.

Here's a look at how it could be used in the classroom for a math lesson:

Museums, such as the Art + Film Institute in Los Angeles, are using it to display content as well.

Sways are stored in the cloud, but you can retrieve ones offline that have already been loaded if Wi-Fi is unreliable at your school or conference.

Microsoft says Sway was designed to compliment other tools like PowerPoint, not replace them, an early look at the platform might make you wonder if your next presentation may be a PowerPoint-free experience. Then you can finally spend more time thinking about what you want in your presentation — and less time trying to make it happen.