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There are 1.2 billion Microsoft Office users worldwide, and Microsoft Word is easily the most commonly used word processor. Sharing and collaborating using Word files is easy and increasingly common. Here are a couple of ways you can get your hands on a copy of Microsoft Word.
Free Online Office Apps
Microsoft Office apps are available for free from the Office website. All you need to do is select the icon for the app you want to use. Choose from Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote. You need a Microsoft account to gain access. If you don’t have an account, create one for free. After logging in, you can choose to create a blank document or choose from hundreds of templates. One of the best things about the online version of Microsoft Word is that it automatically saves your work for you. If you’re familiar with Word, the online app looks very similar. Along the top, the ribbon includes all the basic tools, but the free online app doesn’t have everything you get with the purchased Microsoft Word processor. You can copy and paste, insert images, add links and format your text. One of the perks of using online Microsoft Word is you can invite others to review and make changes to your document in real time. If you need Word for just the basics and don’t want to pay for a copy on your PC, the free online app is the way to go.
Download from Microsoft Website
If you want to purchase a license to use Word on your desktop or laptop, you can do that by visiting the Office store to download a copy of Word for one PC or Mac. The current version is compatible with macOS or Windows 10. Make sure you have enough free space on your hard drive for the program before installing. You need 4GB of disk space on a PC and 10GB on a Mac. You also need internet access and a Microsoft account to download a copy of Word.
Buy in Store
You can always buy a copy of Microsoft Word in various retail stores. Electronics stores like Best Buy and Staples stock copies of Microsoft Office as well as just Word on its own. If you’re a student, you can buy Microsoft Office Student and save some money.
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Word Combination Generator
The Word Combination Generator is a text permutation tool. Enter up to 2 words per field, one word per line. Click "Generate" and the generator will generate all possible permutations of the words you entered and show them below the form.
Word sketch – collocations and word combinations
Word Sketch tools
- Multiword Sketch
- Bilingual Sketch
- Word Sketch As a List
Word Sketch — collocations and word combinations
The word sketch processes the word’s collocates and other words in its surroundings. It can be used as a one-page summary of the word’s grammatical and collocational behavior. The results are organized into categories, called grammatical relations, such as words that serve as an object of the verb , words that serve as a subject of the verb , words that modify the word etc. The words which will be included in the analysis are defined by rules written in the sketch grammar that detects potential collocations.
change search criteria
download results
display or hide scores, frequency, change sorting, activate clustering
filter results by typing characters or a word
screen details – display search parameters and link to word sketch grammar
visualisation – display collocations as diagram
favorites – bookmark this word sketch for easy access
move this column to a different position
display all sentences or examples from which collocations in this column were collected
only keep this column and hide the others
hide this column
change the part of speech
use this word as the search word for other tools
How to use the word sketch
Visit the related Quick start guide or watch this video .
Hover the mouse over icons, controls and other elements to display the tooltips. Click the highlighted words to learn about the functions and settings.
What makes the word sketches unique?
Large modern corpora can contain billions of words with thousands of instances of each word. This makes it unrealistic to look at each concordance line. The word sketch solves this problem. Words surrounding the search word are processed by the word sketch and displayed in a compact, easy to understand format and organized from the most typical to the least typical collocations. The following word sketch was generated from over 9 million instances of the word team . It shows the search word, its frequency, its collocates sorted into grammatical relations, the frequency of each collocate, typicality score, the most frequent representation of each collocation and a local menu with links to other tools.
Display this word sketch in Sketch Engine (login required) Display a similar word sketch in an open corpus (no login required)
Working with the columns
For practicality, use the icons in the header of each column to reorder, close and display the columns again. Use the icons next to each collocate or in the header of the column to display the collocates in context as a concordance. To focus on only one column, use the icon which will hide all the remaining columns with one click. Hover the mouse over the icons to display tooltips which explain their functions.
Sorted by the score (typicality)
By default, the word sketch is sorted with the most typical collocations at the top. This is the preferred option for most uses because what is frequent is usually not interesting or useful, but typical is. The logDice score is used for determining how typical (or how strong) the collocation is. Use view options to display the score.
A high score means that the collocate is often found together with the node and at the same time there are not very many other nodes that the collocate combines with or it does not combine with them too frequently. The bond between the node and the collocate is very strong ⇢ strong collocation.
A low score means that the collocate likes to combine with very many other words. The bond between the node and the collocate is weak ⇢ weak collocation.
It is not possible to set a universal threshold between weak and strong collocations because each word behaves differently. The main purpose of the score is to sort the collocates by their typicality or strength, not to decide whether a collocation is weak or strong.
The view options allow sorting by frequency if needed.
How is the score computed
Please refer to Statistics used in Sketch Engine and to Lexicographer-friendly score for the formula. Here is a simplified but sufficiently informative explanation.
Referring to the screenshot above, to determine the strength of the collocation management team compared to other collocations of team , all nouns modified by management are found first. The sketch grammar for English determines which nouns surrounding management should be regarded as the modified nouns. Then, each time management modifying team is found, management gets a plus point. Each time management is found modifying another noun, management is given a minus point. The logDice score is calculated to indicate whether there were many plus points or many minus points. The score is always presented as a positive number.
Interpreting the score
A very high score of the collocate means that there is little competition from other collocates. The node (the search word, the keyword) does not often combine with other collocates. In other words, the competitors are not frequent for either of these reasons or their combination:
- The number of different competing collocates is very small.
- The number of different competing collocates may be high but the frequency of each of them is low so the total stays low.
A very low score means that there is extreme competition from other collocates for either of these reasons or their combination:
- The number of different competing collocates is very high.
- The number of different competing collocates may be small but the frequency of each of them is extremely high which produces lots of competition for the collocate in question.
As a result, it is quite common that the most common and frequent words ( new, go, be, small, very ) hardly ever receive high scores as collocates because they are used so often in combination with so many other words that there is lots of competition. Exceptions can exist if the collocation is so extremely frequent and that it beats all its competitors.
Sketch grammar
The sketch grammar is a set of rules written in CQL which make use of POS tags and regular expressions to define which tokens should be included in each grammatical relation. For example, a subject may be defined as a noun before verb but the actual rule is much more complex defining more specific requirements for both the noun and verb, their relative position and compulsory and optional words between them.
The word sketch does not use any parsing information and a parsed corpus is not needed. However, sketch grammars using parsed corpora can be developed.
Instead of using the sketch grammars developed by Sketch Engine, users can develop their own and apply them to their own corpora but not to the preloaded corpora.
Requirements for the word sketch to work well
POS Tags and lemmas
The word sketch works with a POS-tagged and lemmatized corpus. Parsed corpus is not needed. Universal word sketches are available for corpora without tagging and/or lemmatization, see below.
The corpus has to be tagged in Sketch Engine or with the same tagset as the one used by Sketch Engine so that the tags are the same as the ones used in the word sketch grammar. A custom word sketch grammar has to be used if the corpus is tagged with a different tagset.
A word sketch can also be generated from a non-lemmatized corpus in which case each word form will be treated independently. Thus, using English as an example, a different word sketch would be produced for goes and a different one for went . Such word sketches exist only for languages where lemmatization is not supported by Sketch Engine.
Corpus size
The corpus size itself does not affect the quality of the result, what matters is the absolute frequency of the word for which the word sketch should be generated. At least a few dozen occurrences are required. However, a minimum of a few hundred occurrences is required for a usable word sketch. To obtain a rich word sketch with lots of collocates, a few thousand occurrences are needed at least. The quality improves with each order of magnitude.
Universal sketch grammar
A so-called universal sketch grammar is used for corpora in languages where tagging and/or lemmatization is not available. The grammatical relations will be simplified to something like noun to the right , noun to the left , verb to the right , verb to the left , or even word to the right , word to the left . Although simplistic, they are a great help when working with large corpora and high-frequency verbs because data coming from thousands of occurrences can be reviewed quickly and easily.
Referencing word sketches
Detailed Sketch Engine manual
THOMAS, James Edward (2015). Discovering English with Sketch Engine (DESkE) , chapter 9 Word Sketches, pp. 161–176.
Work on word sketch
Semantic Word Sketches ( presentation ). Diana McCarthy, Adam Kilgarriff, Miloš Jakubíček and Siva Reddy (2015). In Corpus Linguistics (CL2015).
Finding Multiwords of More Than Two Words . Adam Kilgarriff, Pavel Rychlý, Vojtěch Kovář and Vít Baisa (2012). In Proceedings of the 15th EURALEX International Congress , Norway, pp. 693–700.
A Quantitative Evaluation of Word Sketches . Adam Kilgarriff, Vojtěch Kovář, Simon Krek, Irena Srdanovic and Carole Tiberius (2010). In Proceedings of the 14th EURALEX International Congress. The Netherlands, pp. 372–379.
Towards disambiguation of word sketches . Vít Baisa (2010). In Text, Speech and Dialogue . Germany, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 37–42.
Word sketch for individual languages
The articles relating to individual languages can be found in the Bibliography section (e.g. Arabic, Chinese, Polish, Japanese, etc).
Bilingual word sketches
Kovář, Vojtěch, Vít Baisa, and Miloš Jakubíček. Sketch Engine for bilingual lexicography . International Journal of Lexicography 29.3 (2016): 339-352.
Vít Baisa, Miloš Jakubíček, Adam Kilgarriff, Vojtěch Kovář and Pavel Rychlý. Bilingual Word Sketches: the translate Button . In Proceedings of the 16th EURALEX International Congress. Bolzano, Italy, 15–19 July 2014, pp. 505–513.
Adam Kilgarriff. Terminology finding, parallel corpora and bilingual word sketches in the Sketch Engine . In Proceedings ASLIB 35th Translating and the Computer Conference , London, May 2013, pp. 129–132.
Read this blog post to learn more about how the difference between the most frequent and most typical collocations.
Multiword Sketch — collocations with phrases
The multiword sketch is an extension of the word sketch. It processes the left and right context of a phrase and identifies the collocates of each word in the phrase. The collocations are only extracted from sentences which contain the collocation (phrase) in question. In other words, the collocates only come from contexts where the collocation (phrase) is used. Contexts where the members of the phrase are used on their own are excluded. This makes it possible to only display collocates related to a particular word sense or subject.
The multiword sketch can be accessed in two ways:
From the context menu
Locate the collocate you are interested in, click multiword sketch in the context menu.
By typing the collocation in the input form
Type the node and the collocate(s) directly in the input form. Their order is not important. Do not type words which are not a node or collocate(s), i.e. only words which would appear in the grammatical relations in the word sketch.
The input must only contain lemmas and only those that can be captured by grammatical relations, i.e. those that qualify as collocations. Typically, articles or other determiners and pronouns should not be included.
Multiword sketch of sugary drink
Bilingual Sketch — compare collocations in two languages
The multilingual word sketch displays a word sketch for the word and another word sketch for its translation side by side. This makes it easy to observe the collocations in both languages. This is the English – German multilingual word sketch for dog (Hund) using the English Web 2015 and German Web 2013 corpora.
The corresponding grammatical relations are aligned for easy comparison. Relations are not aligned if:
- The same (or comparable) grammatical relation is not included in the word sketch grammar for the language.
- The linguistic feature does not exist in both languages.
Only monolingual statistics from the monolingual Sketch Engine can be displayed. The setting is in the view options visibility to display them. No multilingual statistics are available.
This tools works with any corpora. A parallel corpus is not required.
- select the first corpus and go to Word Sketch
- select the ADVANCED tab
- tick Translate and select the corpus in the second language, type the lemma and, if needed, select the part of speech.
Word Sketch as a List — combine all collocations into one column
The Word Sketch as a List tab combines all collocations and all grammatical relations into one list. to allow searching, comparing and analyzing all of them together. It is typically used to:
- sort all collocations by score or frequency irrespective of the grammatical relation
- find all collocations which have a common collocate (but a different node)
- find all collocations in one grammatical relation irrespective of the collocate and the node
- filter any of the above using starting with , ending with , containing or regex conditions.
The collocations are presented in the form of word sketch triples which consist of the node as lempos + name of grammatical relation + collocate as lempos , for example:
school-n modifiers of “%w” secondary-j (to be understood as: secondary is a modifier of school )
Any conditions or filtering should be applied to the whole word sketch triple. For example, to list all collocations which are modifiers, the filter should be set as containing the word “modifier”)
This function may take several minutes on large corpora, especially on multi-billion-word corpora.
The results can be sorted by raw frequency, relative frequency (frequency per million) or score.
This tool works with any corpora.
- select the AS A LIST tab
- select additional search parameters if needed
The screenshot shows that option containing find all collocations with “shirt” in the node or collocate position. This also includes words such as t-shirt or sweatshirt because the word “shirt” is a part of these words.
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Create a Word Cloud in a PowerPoint Presentation
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Word clouds are great visual tools because they help communicate ideas in a very direct way, putting the focus on the most important words. Here’s how to add one to your PowerPoint presentation using the Pro Word Cloud add-in.
Installing the add-in.
- In the Office Store, search for Pro Word Cloud . Once you find it, click it. Then click Add > Open in PowerPoint.
- You’ll see an alert about a new Office add-in. Click Trust this add-in.
Generating your word cloud
- To access the add-in in PowerPoint, head to Insert > My Add-ins > See All. From this menu, select Pro Word Cloud.
- Once you open it, you’re going to get a sidebar on the right-hand side of the page where you can control a few options about how your word cloud is going to look. You can select a font, color scheme, layout, case, and importantly, the size of the world cloud that you want to generate.
- Select some text on your slide, and click on Create Word Cloud – and just like that, you’ll get your word cloud.
Saving & using your word cloud
- You have a few options. You can save it to an online gallery, or if you’d rather work with it locally, right-click on the image. If you choose Save picture as, you can save the image of this word cloud locally to your system.
- On the other hand, if you want to just use the word cloud in your current presentation, that’s easy to do. Just right-click again, and this time choose Copy. Then just paste the image into your presentation, and you’ve got a word cloud! It’s that simple.
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FREE-WORD COMBINATIONS
FREE-WORD COMBINATIONS. Definition of a word-group and its basic features Structure of word-groups Meaning of word-groups Motivation in word-groups. Word-Group. the largest two-facet language unit consists of more than one word studied in the syntagmatic level of analysis. Word-Group.
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Definition of a word-group and its basic features • Structure of word-groups • Meaning of word-groups • Motivation in word-groups
Word-Group • the largest two-facet language unit • consists of more than one word • studied in the syntagmatic level of analysis
Word-Group • the degree of structural and semantic cohesion may vary e.g. at least, by means of, take place – semantically and structurally inseparable e.g. a week ago, kind to people – have greater semantic and structural independence
Free-Word Combination • word-groups that have a greater semantic and structural independence • freely composed by the speaker in his speech according to his purpose
Features of Word-groups • Lexical Valency • Grammatical Valency
Lexical Valency (Collocability) • The ability of a word to appear in various combinations with other words, or lexical contexts e.g. question – vital/pressing/urgent/etc., question at issue, to raise a question, a question on the agenda
Lexical Valency (Collocability) • words habitually collocated in speech make a cliché e.g. to put forward a question
Lexical Valency (Collocability) • lexical valency of correlated words in different languages is different e.g. flower цветок garden flowers садовые цветы hot-house flowers оранжерейные цветы pot flowers комнатные цветы
Lexical Valency (Collocability) • different meanings of one and the same word may be revealed through different type of lexical valency e.g. heavy table, book heavy snow, rain heavy drinker, eater heavy sorrow, sleep heavy industry
Grammatical Valency • The ability of a word to appear in specific grammatical structures, or grammatical contexts
Grammatical Valency • the minimal grammatical context in which the words are used when brought together to form a word-group is called the pattern of the word-group
Grammatical Valency • restricted by the part of speech e.g. an adjective + noun, infinitive, prepositional group a kind man, kind to people, heavy to lift • limited by the inner structure of the language e.g. to propose a plan – to suggest a plan to propose to do smth -
Grammatical Valency • grammatical valency of correlated words in different languages is different e.g. enter the room - войти в комнату
Classifications of word-groups • according to the distribution • according to the head-word • according to the syntactic pattern
endocentric – central member functionally equivalent to the whole word-group e.g. red flower ( I saw a red flower – I saw a flower) exocentric – the distribution of the whole word-group is different from either of its components e.g. side by side, grow smaller, John runs Word-groups according to distribution
Word-groups according to the head word • nominal groups e.g. red flower • adjectival groups e.g. kind to people • verbal groups e.g. to speak well
predicative– have a syntactic structure similar to that of a sentence e.g.John went, he works non-predicative – do not have a structure similar to a sentence e.g. red flower, running John Word-groups according to the syntactic pattern
coordinative – elements of a word-group are coordinated with each other e.g. day and night, do or die subordinative – one member of a word-group is subordinated to the central element e.g. red flower, a man of wisdom Non-predicative and endocentric word-groups
Meaning of Word-Groups • lexical meaning • structural meaning
Lexical meaning • the combined lexical meaning of the component words • BUT the meaning of the word-group predominates over the lexical meanings of its components e.g. atomic weight, atomic warfare
Lexical meaning • polysemantic words are used only in one of their meanings e.g. man and wife, blind man • stylistic reference of a word-group may be different from that of its components e.g. old, boy, bags, fun – old boy (дружище), bags of fun
Structural meaning • meaning conveyed by the arrangement of components of a word-group e.g. school grammar – grammar school
Structural meaning • structural and lexical meanings are interdependent and inseparable e.g. school children – to school children all the sun long – all the night long, all the week long
lexically motivated - the combined lexical meaning of a group is deducible from the meanings of its components lexically non-motivated – the meaning of the whole is not seen through the meanings of the elements Motivation in Word-groups
lexically motivated e.g. red flower lexically non-motivated e.g. red tape – ‘official bureaucratic methods’ Motivation in Word-groups
Motivation in Word-groups • e.g. apple sauce – ‘a sauce made of apples’ apple sauce – ‘nonsense’
Motivation in Word-groups • Non-motivated word-groups are called phraseological units or idioms
5 Free Word Art Generators (2022 Update)
Online word art generators are used to create word visualizations, providing you with quick insights at a glance.
Word art may also refer to a text modifying tool, used to transform single words or phrases into a word art picture, like this:
In this article, we’ll be discussing word art in the form of word clouds .
Word clouds or tag clouds are visualizations of the most frequently used words within any given text: reports, speeches, social media posts, emails, product reviews, customer surveys , and more. The more a word or phrase appears within a text, the larger it will appear in your word art.
Create your word art using some of the online word art generators below, or skip ahead to the tutorial to learn how to gather valuable insights from your word art.
Best Online Word Art Generators
Tutorial on how to create your own word art.
It’s fun and simple to create word art. Try one of these top word art generators, free to use and easy to get started with:
- MonkeyLearn WordCloud Generator | Create word art with the power of AI
- WordArt.com | Print your word art on a T-shirt!
- Wordclouds.com | Word art in clipart-style shapes
- Tagxedo | Useful integrations
- ABCya! | A word cloud tool for kids
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MonkeyLearn WordCloud Generator
Create unique word art with MonkeyLearn WordCloud Generator . It’s free, and AI-powered for fast, easy, and comprehensive word art construction with dozens of custom settings.
You can make your own word art in just a couple of steps. Paste text or upload a document; click ‘Generate cloud ,’ and you’re ready to go. Change layout, fonts, themes, and colors for a truly striking word cloud that you can download, print, or use in a presentation.
Unlike many other word art tools, MonkeyLearn’s AI allows its cloud generator to go beyond single words and recognize word pairs or connected phrases, like “machine learning,” “hundreds of hours,” and “better management decision,” as seen in the cloud above.
MonkeyLearn’s word cloud creator is not only fun and easy to use, but offers real insights into all manner of unstructured text : documents, social media, emails, web pages, and more.
Want to go a step further than text analysis with word clouds. Discover MonkeyLearn’s free sentiment analyzer .
WordArt.com
WordArt.com is one of the most popular online sites for creating word clouds and allows you to print your word art pictures onto posters, mugs, T-shirts, etc.
WordArt.com enables you to create word art in the shape of numbers, animals, festive decorations, and other funky figures. You can paste text, upload a file, or enter a URL to input the words you’d like to use.
It can be a little wonky to navigate through the interface, but WordArt.com offers more options than the average word cloud tool, and you can print your word art right from the page (although you have to pay for hi-def downloads).
Wordclouds.com
Wordclouds.com allows you to paste text or upload a document. One of their most significant advantages is that you can even upload a PDF. Their _‘Wizard’_ button is helpful to make cloud art with ease, as it walks you through the process from start to finish.
Use it to create colorful word art on your computer, tablet, even your smartphone. They offer basic clipart-style shapes, and you can alter the gap size between words to get your cloud looking just like you want.
Tagxedo provides some of the most impressive text integrations – you can look up Twitter handles, RSS feeds, news articles, or search the web for the subject of your choice. It does, however, require Silverlight to run, so you can’t use it with Google Chrome, and it’s still a bit sluggish and rickety in other browsers.
ABCya! creates simple word clouds and offers dozens of fun learning games for kids. Plus, it’s really easy to navigate your way through ABCya! Simply type or paste text, then hit "Create".
You can randomize the cloud and watch your word art morph into a whole new shape. Kids love it because it’s colorful and gets their creativity flowing. It’s an excellent tool for teaching kids about the relationships of essential words to the text as a whole.
Ready to make your own word art? With MonkeyLearn’s word cloud generator, you can select from nearly endless options to maneuver and manipulate your word art to your liking. It’s super easy to use, and you can gain real insights from your text data. Follow along below to make your word art in just a couple of steps.
1. Upload your data
Go to MonkeyLearn's word art generator , then paste your text or upload a text file.
2. Click ‘Generate Cloud’
After clicking 'Generate Cloud' , your word art will appear in just a few seconds.
The above word art visualizes a set of reviews about the business messaging app, Slack . Notice how MonkeyLearn’s word cloud tool keeps phrases together and how the size of each word or phrase correlates to the frequency with which each appears in the text.
Above demonstrates the default font, size, color, theme, display, and word quantity (50 words), all of which you can change in the toolbar.
3. Customize your word art
The MonkeyLearn cloud generator allows you to edit your text right in the browser window.
Click ‘Edit Text’ in the upper left to return to the text box and add or remove words.
In the top toolbar, you can change fonts and colors, the size of the words, color schemes, choose a theme, or refresh the page to change the word grouping.
There are dozens of options.
Slide the ‘Words Quantity’ bar in the upper right to change the total number of words that appear in your word visualization.
For more in-depth text analysis , take a look at the column on the right. You can see the number of times each word appears in your text and the relevance of each word to the text as a whole. And you can switch to list in order of frequency or relevance.
At the bottom right, you can do more than word analysis by using other MonkeyLearn text analysis tools: sentiment analysis (to sort words and phrases in your text as positive, negative, or neutral), keyword extraction , and entity extraction .
4. Download your word art
Click ‘Download’ in the upper right to download your word art as a super hi-res SVG or PNG image – perfect for printing or displaying in reports and on huge screens. You can also download a CSV file for a list of the most used words in order of relevance or number of appearances.
Go Further Than Word Art
When you have the right tools, word art is easy to make and can be fun, educational, and insightful.
Once you’ve played around with the online word cloud generator, you can dive into MonkeyLearn’s other powerful text analysis tools. Try them for free to see how they work:
- Sentiment Analyzer
- Keyword Extractor
- Intent and Email Classifier
- Name Extractor
MonkeyLearn’s suite of text analysis tools can help you save hundreds of employee hours by automating processes and visualizing your data in real time.
Get the most out of your text data. Request a demo to learn more about MonkeyLearn’s advanced text analysis tools.
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Word Clouds
Word Clouds are a visual representation of the frequency of words within a given body of text. Often they are used to visualize the frequency of words within large text documents, qualitative research data, public speeches, website tags, End User License Agreements (EULAs) and unstructured data sources.
Wordclouds.com
Wordclouds.com is a free online word cloud generator and tag cloud creator. Wordclouds.com works on your PC, Tablet or smartphone. Paste text, upload a document or open an URL to automatically generate a word- or tag cloud. Customize your cloud with shapes, themes, colors and fonts. You can also edit the word list, cloud size and gap size. Wordclouds.com can also generate clickable word clouds with links (image map). When you are satisfied with the result, save the image and share it online.
TagCrowd is a web application for visualizing word frequencies in any text by creating word clouds, and was created by Daniel Steinbock while a PhD student at Stanford University. You can enter text in three ways: paste text, upload a text file or enter the URL of a web page to visualize.
Tagxedo turns words into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text. Start with any text and even use images to create a custom shape.
WordArt.com is an online word cloud art creator that enables you to create amazing and unique word cloud art with ease. You can customize every bit of word cloud art including: words, shapes, fonts, colors, layouts and more!
ToCloud is an online free word cloud generator that uses word frequency as the weight. Based on the text from a webpage or pasted text, the generated word cloud of a page gives a quick understanding of how the page is optimized for certain words.
WordItOut is the word cloud generator that gives you control with many custom settings. Free to use and no sign up required!
Word Cloud Generator
Word Cloud Generator is developed by Jason Davies using JavaScript and provides a few customization options for scale, word orientation, font and the number of words from your original text to be included in the word cloud.
Vizzlo Word Cloud Generator
Vizzlo is an online data visualization tool, and creating word clouds is one of its capabilities. Vizzlo does have offer word cloud creation for free users, but it includes the Vizzlo watermark. You have to be on one of the paid accounts to remove the watermark.
Word Cloud Maker
Word Cloud Maker is an advanced online FREE word cloud generator that enables you to upload a background photo or select a design from the gallery upon which your word cloud art will be superimposed. You can simply download the word clouds to your local computer in multiple formats such as vector svg, png, jpg, jpeg, pdf and more. You can use it in your content for free.
Word Cloud Generator (Google Docs)
Word Cloud Generator is a free Google Docs add-on for creating word clouds based on your Google Documents. Richard Byrne has a good video tutorial that demonstrates how to quickly create a word cloud in Google Documents.
Infogram Word Clouds
Infogram is an online chart maker used to design infographics, presentations, reports and more. It’s free to create an account, and word clouds are one of their charting options. You have to upgrade to a paid plan to remove the Infogram logo and get access to download options for your designs.
WordSift was created to help teachers manage the demands of vocabulary and academic language in their text materials. Options are very similar to Jason Davies’ Word Cloud Maker (above) but is easier to use.
MonkeyLearn AI WordCloud Generator
The MonkeyLearn WordCloud Generator is a free tool that uses Artificial Intelligence to generate word clouds from your source text, and automatically detects multiple word combinations.
Wordle (discontinued)
Wordle was a Java-based tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide, created by Jonathan Feinberg. Wordle has been discontinued and is no longer under development. You can download and use the final version of the desktop apps for Windows v0.2 and Mac v0.2 . These desktop apps require that JAVA is also installed on your computer.
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Random Choices – A PowerPoint Randomizer
Random choices is a fun way to present prompts, words and images to your class..
Prompts are useful because they provide a framework or context for the situation. They can be developed into improvisation activities. Words can be used to review grammar and vocabulary and images can easily provide the inspiration for students to create their own stories.
In April of 2016, I previously designed a version of Random Choices in Excel . This in turn was an update of an earlier version in Excel . The Excel file could be inserted into PowerPoint, but at the time I didn’t know how I could create a randomizer in PowerPoint only. Then, the other day I was thinking back to some of my earlier projects and I realized that a randomizer could use the same principle as the PowerPoint spinning wheel.
Watch the video demo below to see how Random Choices works in PowerPoint.
Watch the video tutorial to see how to edit and use the template. The video run-time is 1 minutes and 49 seconds.
Download the template.
Click on the image (above) or follow the link (below) to download the template.
Download the random choices powerpoint template.
The template consists of a single slide. Beneath the slide there are three topic lists and each topic list contains space for 10 words. During the slideshow, the words appear in the three windows when you click on the spin buttons.
Editing & Using the Template
Screenshot of the Random Choices template
- Download and open the Random Choices PowerPoint template
- Activities, Places, Times
- Nouns, verbs and adverbs
- Subject, Verbs, Objects
- Words, Phrases, Sentences
- Scroll down to below the slide and you will see three lists of 10 words.
- Double click on the text to highlight.
- Write your new word.
- Complete this procedure until all the words have been replaced.
- Go to the slideshow ribbon and start the presentation.
- Click on each of the spin buttons to make the text rotate in the view windows.
- Click on each of the spin buttons again to stop the text rotating in the view windows.
- The selected word is indicated by the two red triangles on the side of the window frame.
- The students should use the selected word or prompt.
- If no word is indicated and there is only a question mark, this indicates that the students can choose one of their own words at random.
- If you wish to spin the words again, click on the spin button again .
- Repeat as many times as you wish.
Ways to use a randomizer in class
Vocabulary review.
Using the Random Choices as a way to review vocabulary that has been recorded over the duration of the course. Add 10 words, 10 phrases, and 10 sentences to the text boxes and ask the students to recall their meanings.
Starting Questions
Choose 3 topics and write down several ‘starting questions’ for each topic.
For example, if the topic was free time an example question may be:
What did you do on the weekend?
These kinds of prompts can help students speak English from the very beginning of the class. It also serves as a review if you have chosen questions that appeared throughout the course.
Story Prompts
Add names, locations and situations to the words list.
Spin the words and assign a combination of prompts to a student or group and ask them to write a short story based on the words they were given.
Role-play Situations
Add names, locations and situations to the words list.
Spin the words to get a random combination, but instead of writing a short story, ask a group of students to work together to create a role-play based around the words they given. The role-play can then be performed after the students have had enough thinking and practice time.
Add verbs, nouns and adverbs to the words list.
Divide the students into groups of 4-5 students. Ask one student from each group to look at the random word combination. The students then return to their groups and act out the words/situation with gestures.
Alternatively, ask one students from each group to come to the front of the class with their backs to the projector screen. The other members of their groups have to act out the words/situation using gestures.
The group that guesses the situation first wins a point.
Whisper Chains
This activity is useful for practicing grammar structures.
Add subject, conjugated verb and object to the words list.
Divide the students into 2 or 4 groups. Each group forms a line with student at the front (closest to the board) holding a piece of chalk or a marker.
Show a random combination of words to the students at the back of the lines. They think of a sentence and whisper it to the person in front of them, who in turn whispers it to the person in front of them until it reaches the person at the front of the line.
The person at the front of the line then runs to the board and writes down the sentence. The first group with a grammatically correct sentence wins a point.
Customizing the template
You may wish to customize the template to suit the theme of the subject you are teaching or to reflect your students’ interests. Or you may wish that the Random Choices were pictures instead of words. Continue reading if you want to find out how to make these customizations.
Changing the Background
Follow these steps to change the background image.
- Right-click on the background image.
- Select format picture from the menu that appears.
- The format window pane will appear on the right-hand side of the screen.
- Click on the fill & line icon . (It looks like a small paint can)
- From the fill menu, choose picture or texture fill .
- Click on ‘ file… ‘ to insert a picture from your computer.
- Locate your image and click insert .
- Your own image will now appear as the background to the ‘ Random Choices’ template.
Changing the text to images
If you prefer to use images as prompts instead of words, follow these steps.
- Left-click on one of the word group lists.
- Left-click again on an individual word to select it.
- Double click on the text to select it and press delete.
- Right-click on the blank box and select format shape from the menu.
- Your image will now appear within the box.
- Repeat this procedure for all boxes within each word list group.
Adding more words
Adding more words to the list is possible, but it is involves doing several things. Follow the tips below.
- Click on the word list you want to increase.
- Go to the format ribbon.
- Click on group from the arrange section and select ungroup .
- Select the numbers of words you want to copy and press CTRL+C.
- Press CTRL+V to paste the words.
- Move the words so they appear connected to the list.
- Select all the words.
- Click on group from the arrange section and select group .
- Go to the home ribbon, click on select from the editing section and open the selection pane .
- The new group appears at the top of the list. Move the group down so it appears with the other word lists below the three markers.
- Go to the animation ribbon and click on the animation pane in the advanced animation section.
- Click on the word group and choose the fly in animation from the drop-down list.
- Click on the animation options and make sure the direction is set to down .
- Click on the new animation in the animation pane.
- Click on trigger in the advanced animation section and select on click of and choose the correct spin button.
- Move the animation up in the animation pane so that it is the first animation for the spin button.
- Click on the arrow next to the animation and choose timing from the menu that appears.
- The timing dialog will open.
- Change the duration to 0.1 seconds .
- Change repeat to until next click .
If you have any questions about customizing the template, don’t hesitate to contact tekhnologic.
We’d also like to hear from you if you have any suggestions for using the Random Choices template.
Please leave a comment if you have any ideas you would like to share or if you have any questions about the template., alternatively you can send me a message on my facebook page or on twitter ., thanks for reading and take care.
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Bringing an element of randomness into the classroom can really challenge students. There are many apps that act as random generators, but have you tried using Excel to create a randomizer of your own?
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8 thoughts on “ Random Choices – A PowerPoint Randomizer ”
Thanks! Amazing tool!!!
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Thanks so so much for sharing such cool resources!!!
This is very cool! I’m trying to think of how to use this to make random dice. Do you think it could be done? I am thinking changing the direction of the flying and make the list images instead of text. What do you think?
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Hi Ladyinmass,
I think it is all very possible. One thing though, if you change the direction of the animation on the text boxes you will need to change their actual position on the slide. So a ‘fly in’ animation with a down direction works because they appear at the top of the slide and move across the window. This wouldn’t happen with an ‘up’ direction as the animation would start below the slide and finish below the slide. So, the word boxes would have to be repositioned above the slide.
You may also find this page useful. https://tekhnologic.wordpress.com/2016/02/01/powerpoint-dice/
Let me know how you get on.
I’m using this as a number generator for children to practice reading three digit numbers – would love to have two more “columns” so we could go up to five digit numbers!
Hi Natalie,
I am glad you have found this template useful. All templates are free to use and adapt as you wish. Although the easier way to generate a five digit numbers is to place random two digit numbers in two of the columns. It should have the same effect and it won’t require any redesigning.
I hope you will continue to enjoy using it in your classes.
Hi, I want to use this to randomize calling on students in class, but I am struggling with the adding more words instructions. Could you provide a video or some more guidance, please? Thanks!
Hi Anna S, there is a section in the article for adding new words. If you would prefer a video to demonstrate I will try and make one but it will be within the next 2-4 weeks.
If you are looking for something sooner, you could try adapting one of the Lucky Dip templates ( https://wp.me/p577Go-9m ) – choose either the numbers or conversation topics and just apply it to student names. All you need to do to add new names would be copy and paste a slide.
Let me know your preference.
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Create a Venn diagram
You can create a SmartArt graphic that uses a Venn diagram layout in Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word. Venn diagrams are ideal for illustrating the similarities and differences between several different groups or concepts.
Overview of Venn diagrams
A Venn diagram uses overlapping circles to illustrate the similarities, differences, and relationships between concepts, ideas, categories, or groups. Similarities between groups are represented in the overlapping portions of the circles, while differences are represented in the non-overlapping portions of the circles.
1 Each large group is represented by one of the circles.
2 Each overlapping area represents similarities between two large groups or smaller groups that belong to the two larger groups.
What do you want to do?
On the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, click SmartArt .
An example of the Illustrations group on the Insert tab in PowerPoint 2013
In the Choose a SmartArt Graphic gallery, click Relationship , click a Venn diagram layout (such as Basic Venn ), and then click OK .
Add text to a Venn diagram
Add text to the main circles
Select a shape in the SmartArt graphic.
Do one of the following:
In the Text pane, click [Text] in the pane, and then type your text (or select a bullet and type your text).
Copy text from another location or program, click [Text] in the Text pane, and then paste your text.
Click a circle in the SmartArt graphic, and then type your text.
Note: If you do not see the Text pane, you can open it by clicking the control on the left side of the SmartArt graphic.
Add text to the overlapping portions of the circles
You cannot add text to the overlapping portions of a Venn diagram from the Text pane. Instead, you can insert text boxes and position them over the overlapping areas.
In Excel, Outlook, and Word:
On the Insert tab, in the Text group:
In Excel click Text Box .
In Outlook , click Text Box , and then click Draw Text Box .
In Word , click Text Box , and then at the bottom of the gallery, click Draw Text Box .
Then do the following:
Click and drag in an overlapping circle. Draw the text box the size you want.
To add text, click inside the box and type.
To change the background color from white to the color of the overlapping circle, right-click the text box, and then select Format Shape .
In the Format Shape pane, under Fill , select No fill .
To delete the lines around the text box, with the text box still selected, click Line in the Format Shape pane, and then select No line .
To format text in the text box, select the text, and then use the formatting options in the Font group on the Home tab.
In PowerPoint:
On the Insert tab, in the Text group, click Text Box .
Add or delete circles in your Venn diagram
Click the existing circle that is located closest to where you want to add the new circle.
Under SmartArt Tools , on the Design tab, in the Create Graphic group, click the arrow next to Add Shape .
If you don't see the SmartArt Tools or Design tabs, make sure that you've selected the SmartArt graphic. You may need to double-click the SmartArt graphic in order to open the Design tab.
To insert a circle after the selected circle, that will overlap the selected circle, click Add Shape After .
To insert a circle before the selected circle, that will overlap the selected circle, click Add Shape Before .
When you want to add a circle to your Venn diagram, experiment with adding the shape before or after the selected circle to get the placement you want for the new circle.
To add a circle from the Text pane, click an existing circle, move your pointer before or after the text where you want to add the circle, and then press Enter.
To delete a circle from your Venn diagram, click the circle you want to delete, and then press Delete.
Move a circle in your Venn diagram
To move a circle, click the circle, and then drag it to its new location.
To move a circle in very small increments, hold down CTRL while you press the arrow keys on your keyboard.
Change to a different Venn diagram layout
Right-click the Venn diagram that you want to change
Click a layout option in the Layouts group on the Design tab under SmartArt Tools . When you point to a layout option, your SmartArt graphic changes to show you a preview of how it would look with that layout. Choose the layout that you want.
To show overlapping relationships in a sequence, click Linear Venn .
To show overlapping relationships with an emphasis on growth or gradation, click Stacked Venn .
To show overlapping relationships and the relationship to a central idea, click Radial Venn .
Change the colors of your Venn diagram
To quickly add a designer-quality look and polish to your SmartArt graphic, you can change the colors of your Venn diagram. You can also add effects, such as glows, soft edges, or 3-D effects.
You can apply color combinations that are derived from the theme colors to the circles in your SmartArt graphic.
Click the SmartArt graphic whose color that you want to change.
Under SmartArt Tools , on the Design tab, in the SmartArt Styles group, click Change Colors .
If you don't see the SmartArt Tools or Design tabs, make sure that you've selected the SmartArt graphic.
Tip: When you position your pointer over a thumbnail, you can see how the colors affect your SmartArt graphic.
Change the line color or style of a circle's border
In the SmartArt graphic, right-click the border of the circle you want to change, and then click Format Shape .
In the Format Shape pane, if necessary, click the arrow next to Line to expose all the options, and then do one of the following:
To change the line style of the circle’s border, select the line styles that you want, such as Transparency , Width , or Dash Type .
Change the background color of a circle in your Venn diagram
Click the SmartArt graphic that you want to change.
Right-click the border of a circle, and then click Format Shape .
In the Format Shape pane, under Fill , click Solid fill .
To change the background to a color that is not in the theme colors, click More Colors , and then either click the color that you want on the Standard tab or mix your own color on the Custom tab. Custom colors and colors on the Standard tab are not updated if you later change the document theme.
To increase the transparency of the shapes in the diagram, move the Transparency slider or enter a number in the box next to the slider. You can vary the percentage of transparency from 0% (fully opaque, the default setting) to 100% (fully transparent).
Apply a SmartArt Style to your Venn diagram
A SmartArt Style is a combination of various effects, such as line style, bevel, or 3-D rotation that you can apply to the circles in your SmartArt graphic to create a unique look.
Under SmartArt Tools , on the Design tab, in the SmartArt Styles group, click the SmartArt Style that you want.
Note: When you position your pointer over a thumbnail, you can see how the SmartArt Style affects your SmartArt graphic.
Tip: If you're using PowerPoint 2013 or PowerPoint 2016, you can animate your Venn diagram to emphasize each circle. For more information, see Animate a SmartArt graphic .
Choose a SmartArt graphic
Learn more about SmartArt Graphics
Select the SmartArt graphic.
Click [Text] in the Text pane, and then type your text.
In the Text pane, under Type your text here, select a bullet and type your text.
Note: You can also open the Text pane by clicking the control.
To insert a text box, do the following:
Drag to draw a text box.
Select the text box and type your text.
Position the text box over the overlapping area of the circles.
Click the SmartArt graphic that you want to add another circle to.
To add a circle from the Text pane, click an existing circle, move your pointer before or after the text where you want to add the circle, and then press ENTER.
To delete a circle from your Venn diagram, click the circle you want to delete, and then press DELETE.
Right-click the Venn diagram that you want to change, and then click Change Layout .
In the Choose a SmartArt Graphic dialog box, click Relationship in the left pane, and in the right pane do one of the following:
Note: You can also change the layout of your SmartArt graphic by clicking a layout option in the Layouts group on the Design tab under SmartArt Tools . When you point to a layout option, your SmartArt graphic changes to show you a preview of how it would look with that layout.
In the Format Shape dialog box, do one of the following:
To change the line style of the circle’s border, click Line Style in the left pane, in the Line Style pane, and then select the line styles that you want.
In the Format Shape dialog box, in the left pane click Fill , and then in the Fill pane click Solid fill .
When you position your pointer over a thumbnail, you can see how the SmartArt Style affects your SmartArt graphic.
Animate your Venn diagram
If you're using PowerPoint 2010, you can animate your Venn diagram to emphasize each circle. For more information about how to animate a SmartArt graphic, see Animate your SmartArt graphic .
Click the Venn diagram that you want to animate.
To make each circle in the Venn diagram enter in sequence, on the Animations tab, in the Animation group, click Effect Options , and then click One by One .
Note: If you copy a Venn diagram that has an animation applied to it to another slide, the animation is also copied.
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15 Best Presentation Software for 2023 (Full Comparison Guide)
Written by: Orana Velarde
Looking to create a stunning presentation that keeps your audience engaged? You need a high-quality presentation software to take your slides to the next level. Some of the best presentation software include Visme, Haiku Deck, Prezi, Microsoft Powerpoint, Canva and Google Slides .
In this comparison guide, we’ll analyze each of these tools and many more to understand what the difference is between them so you can choose the best presentation maker for your business.
So, if you want to stand out from run-of-the-mill PowerPoint presentations and have a reliable presentation software that will help you collaborate with team members and design stunning slide decks in a fraction of the time, you’ll need this guide.
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What is Presentation Tools
Presentation tools are software applications that enable users to visually present ideas or share knowledge. These presentations are delivered in a slide-show format using a combination of text, images and other graphic elements.
Presentation software is frequently used to pitch an idea to investors , present proposals to clients , introduce new products or services to customers, train staff on new policies or ideas , or teach your students new or complex concepts.
Best Presentation Software: A Visual Comparison
When choosing the right presentation software for your projects, there are some things to consider:
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- Who is the program geared at: businesses, educators, bloggers or social media managers?
- Does it have lots of templates to choose from? Are they good quality and helpful?
- Is the built-in graphic asset library extensive and varied?
- Can you embed content, add videos or GIFs?
- Can you add audio to your presentations?
- Can elements be animated?
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- Can finished presentations be viewed offline?
- Can you have team accounts or business accounts for easy collaboration inside your company?
- Does it include a Brand Kit? Is it easy to use?
- Can the finished presentation be shared online straight from the presentation software?
- Can your presentations be uploaded to the cloud privately with password protection?
- Does the presentation software include analytics to see how your projects perform on social media?
- Can you use the finished presentation as a lead generator straight from the software?
We'll take a look at all these aspects in the following list of best presentation software so you can make your own well-informed decision.
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Visme's brand design tool makes it easy to keep all of your content on-brand regardless of who's creating it. It works in three easy steps:
- Upload all of your branding assets (colors, fonts, logo) to Visme with the Brand Wizard . Input your website URL and watch as our Brand Wizard automatically pulls in all of your branding.
- Access a bundle of 30+ automatically branded templates that have your logo, fonts and colors already ready to go.
- Easily access thousands of other templates and input your brand fonts and colors with just a click in Visme's editor.
Then boom! All of your content will always have the same branding, helping increase brand strength and recognition.
Share to Social Media
Once a presentation is finished, it can be shared to social media seamlessly right from the editor. It can also be downloaded.
Privacy and Password Protection
Presentations on Visme can be published privately with password protection so that only the people you want can access it. It is advisable to only use strong passwords for this purpose. There are a few free password managers that could help you do that and keep your account secure .
Visme’s analytics is what makes it stand out as the best tool for presentation. When a presentation is shared via a live link, it can be analyzed for views and sharing.
Access in-depth analytics that show you how much of your presentation is typically viewed, for how long and which slides seem to be the most popular.
Lead Generation
You can add a signup form to your presentations to collect leads that could potentially become clients. Simply head over to our Advanced Settings tab before sharing your project and turn on Requires Registration to collect emails from each person who views your content.
Prezi offers a great alternative to the traditional presentation format that goes slide by slide. The creative idea behind Prezi is you can create an animated, non-sequential flow with topics and subtopics that are hidden until you zoom in.
While Prezi's interface can be slightly complicated to use, it's a good option for people who need to add a creative touch to their presentations.
Prezi is free for basic capabilities and limited templates.
For the paid plans, there are three tiers.
- Plus: $12/month
- Premium: $16/month
- Teams: Request pricing info
There are separate plans available for students and teachers.
Prezi has a slight learning curve, but once you create a couple of presentations, you get the hang of it. However, it doesn't offer too much customizability inside the templates.
Businesses and educators who are in need of a different style of presentation. Prezi offers a “conversational style” of zooming and moving around between information. So, who Prezi is for really depends on who needs this sort of presentation style.
There are plenty of templates to choose from, and you can also start from scratch. The templates are different in color and style, but the idea of zooming into topics and subtopics is the same.
The assets library has some icons and shapes available, the usual ones like arrows and buttons. Premium plans get access to over 80,000 icons and 500,000 images.
Videos can be uploaded or embedded from YouTube. Embedded videos are not viewable in offline mode. GIFs aren’t supported.
Voice over can be added in premium plans.
No other content can be embedded into Prezi presentations.
Prezi is all about animations between topics and subtopics. The presentations themselves are viewed as animations.
Prezi is a cloud app but can be accessed to view offline with premium plans.
Available to Create on Multiple Devices
Prezi presentations can only be created on a computer but can be viewed on all devices.
Prezi for teams is available upon demand and has a Slack integration.
Brand Kits are only available with Prezi's team plans, but each presentation can be customized to fit your brand with color customizations and some available fonts.
Prezi presentations can be shared to social media via a special share button at the top-right of the Prezi page. They can be shared to LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
Prezi presentations can only be downloaded from the Prezi app. There are two options, as an EXE file for PC and a ZIP file for Mac. Presentations can then be viewed without internet connection or the need to connect to the Prezi app.
Presentations are public unless you have a paid account.
Analytics are available with premium accounts but it only applies to Prezi presentations you share via a link to someone.
There are no lead generation capabilities with Prezi.
3 Google Slides
Google Slides is the presentation software available via your Google account. Just like you can create documents and spreadsheets with Google Docs and Sheets, you can create presentations with Google Slides.
The setup is very similar to PowerPoint and is free to use for anyone with a google account. There is a business version called G Suite, which includes the same things with more storage and management capabilities.
Google Slides is free to use for anyone with a Google account. All features are available to everyone.
There are plans for business accounts so that teams can be created and information can be managed in a more organized way. Plans start at $6/user/month and go up to $18/user/month.
Compared to other examples of presentation software, Google Slides is very easy to use. The controls are very similar to Google Docs and Sheets.
Business professionals, educators and students who need fast and easy access to a presentation software that can get things done.
There is a general collection of templates, but there are not very many. Presentations can also be started from scratch.
The graphic assets are average and simple. The shapes are classic and generic. Photographs can be uploaded from your desktop, your Google Drive, a URL or searched online.
Videos can uploaded with a YouTube link or from Google Drive. GIFs can be added just like images.
Audio and Embed Third-Party Content
Anything from your Google Drive can be added in. Also there are some available “add-ons” that can be integrated for icons, stock photography and audio.
Elements inside each slide can be animated and so can the transition between the slides.
Google Slides is a cloud-based program.
Google Slides can be used fully on any device with their respective apps for Android and iPhone. Presentations can be edited and viewed on all devices.
Collaborating with other people is easy with Google Slides
There is no brand kit feature.
Presentations can be shared via email or link.
Google Slides can be viewed offline with a Chrome Extension and the use of Backup and Sync.
Presentations can be shared privately, but there are no password capabilities, only invitations.
Analytics and Lead Generation
These features are not available.
Keynote is the native Apple presentation software — one of the original PowerPoint Alternatives. Anyone with an Apple ID can use the Keynote editor. It is the most similar to PowerPoint and also Google Slides.
Keynote is free for downloading and also accessing via the cloud with an apple ID.
If you know how to use PowerPoint or Google Slides, Keynote is a breeze. This feature makes it stand out as one of the best tools for presentation.
Keynote is good for businesses, educators and anyone who needs a practical presentation software.
The templates are limited but come in standard or wide sizes. Templates can also be found outside of Keynote and uploaded into the program.
There are plenty of classic symbols and icons available which are also customizable in terms of color and gradient. Images can only be added from your computer.
Videos are not embeddable in Keynote slides but that is sorted with a plug-in like LiveSlides. GIFs can be added as .gif images.
You can upload existing audio files in Keynote to play on specific slides. There's also an option to record your own voiceover to create a narrated presentation.
Including these is not available
Slides and objects can be animated in a number of ways, including path creation, scaling, bounce or jiggle effects, and more.
Keynote is available on both desktop and cloud.
You can create keynote presentations on any apple device and PC.
Keynote presentations can be downloaded as .pdf or as .pptx to view offline.
Keynote presentations can be collaborated on via a link or email with permission settings set to “can make changes”.
Brand Kit, Share to Social Media, Analytics and Lead Generation
None of these are available on Keynote.
Presentations are private until shared and there is no password protection capabilities.
5 Microsoft PowerPoint
This list wouldn't have been complete without the most popular presentation software in the world. Even though there are tons of more advanced presentation tools out there now, PowerPoint is still a favorite of many because of its familiarity, ease of use and availability.
The desktop-based PowerPoint program is part of Microsoft 365, which has different plans for businesses that start from $6/month and go up to $22/month.
You can download PowerPoint online for free on any device, including on mobile.
Most, if not every, computer user knows how to work a PowerPoint. The traditional sidebar interface is easy to use simply because it's familiar. But for people who are using PowerPoint for the first time, there might be a slight learning curve.
Businesses, individuals, students, teachers and anyone who uses a Windows PC or device. PowerPoint is also a good fit for people who want to create simple, conventional presentations, and aren't looking for fancy new features or capabilities.
There are dozens of themes that come built-in with PowerPoint, and there are all customizable so you can play around with the styles.
You can browse stock images, icons, stickers and more by searching for relevant keywords in PowerPoint's graphic library.
Videos and GIFs can be uploaded from your computer. You can also embed videos from YouTube and other online sources. However, this feature is only available to Windows users.
You can upload audio files from your computer. You can also record audio directly inside PowerPoint, and edit the settings for playback.
You can embed files created in other Microsoft Office applications, such as charts created in Excel, or any other programs that support Object Linking and Embedding (OLE.)
There are tons of animation and transition options available in PowerPoint, which can actually get confusing at times. However, if you know your way around these options, it gets easier to create a professional-looking slideshow.
There are both desktop and cloud versions of PowerPoint available.
You can download the PowerPoint mobile apps on both Android and iOS devices.
It's possible to share your presentation with specific people.
Brand kits are not available, but you can save custom themes.
Presentations cannot be shared to social media.
You can download your PowerPoint presentations in various formats, including PPTX and PDF. This makes it easy to access them on any device offline.
You can mark your presentations as read-only to prevent users from editing the file.
This feature is not available in PowerPoint.
Ludus is one of the best-looking presentation tools available online. The main attractions with Ludus are the clean black screen to edit on and the amount of integrations that give importing capabilities for all sorts of content. From photography, to .svg to code builds.
Ludus starts at $14.99/month for teams of 1-15 people. Team that need more licenses are encouraged to contact for more pricing information. Ludus does offer a 30-day free trial.
Ludus is quite easy to use and includes lots of keyboard shortcuts. It is easy to learn how to use and pretty straightforward. It seems to be easier for designers than for non-designers to use.
This presentation software is geared more towards designers or business owners who have some design knowledge to totally be able to use the broad capabilities.
There are no templates to choose from. You have to start from scratch or use smart blocks that you can create to use over and over easily. Smart blocks are kept in their own library.
Ludus has minimal in-house graphic assets like simple shapes, but the integrations are epic. You can import .svg icons and edit them inside Ludus quite easily. Photos can also be imported via Unsplash, Instagram, Facebook or uploaded.
Videos and GIFs are easily imported via the integrations like YouTube, Vimeo, Giphy and more.
Audio can be embedded as an audio file from SoundCloud, Dropbox and other integrations.
You can pretty much embed anything into Ludus. The integrations are impressive and there are also iframe and HTML options.
Internal elements can’t be animated but there are so many integrations that animations can be done in different ways.
Ludus is a cloud-based app. No need to download anything.
Presentations can only be edited on computers. Finished presentations can be viewed on all handheld devices that have access to the internet via a URL link.
Collaborations are possible with the team plans. This includes live collaboration, workspaces and more.
With collaborations, smart blocks and the Brandfetch integration, a brand kit can be organized quite easily. But it’s not an internal feature.
Finished presentations can be easily shared to social media straight from Ludus.
Ludus presentations can be downloaded as .pdf or .html to be viewed offline.
Pro Plans have password protection.
There are no analytics or lead generation capabilities available in Ludus.
Slides is the only presentation software which promotes itself as being “pixel perfect” as the editor includes a built-in grid to help with composition. Slides has a lower cost at the highest price tag which is good for smaller businesses.
Slides is free to use, but finished presentations will be public and available to see and copy in the Browse / Explore tab.
The paid plans start at $5/month and go up to $20/month for features like unlimited collaborators, privacy, shared media library and Google Analytics.
Slides is very easy to use, the editing board is minimal but all tools are at easy reach. No need to get confused with Slides. There are no templates so presentations are built from scratch.
Small business owners or startups. Individuals that know what they want and don’t need templates to help them along. Also for developers because it has HTML and CSS building capabilities.
Slides has a very limited template library with just a handful of different options to choose from.
The available shapes and icons are common and minimal. Photos have to be uploaded or imported from a URL.
Videos and GIFs are easy to add. Videos can be uploaded or linked and GIFs can be uploaded as .gif or .mp4 as video.
Including audio is not possible with Slides.
Anything with code can be added in an iframe.
All elements and features can be animated to fade in, fade out etc. Length of duration can be customized.
Slides is a cloud-based presentation software that can only be used online.
Slides can be used on the computer and handheld devices. To edit and to view.
Paid plans have very capable collaboration possibilities. Users can leave comments with feedback for the creator to review and make edits.
There is no set section for a brand kit but branded decks can be created and then cloned to use as a template.
Yes, quite easily.
A Slides presentations can be downloaded as a ZIP file with an .html file inside that can be viewed offline on any browser.
Privacy and Analytics
Possible with paid plans.
This is not possible on Slides.
8 Slidebean
Slidebean is an easy-to-use presentation software with interesting templates and customizable content blocks.
The highlight of this presentation software is that it uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help you put together the best possible slide layouts and configurations. They also have a team of experts that can both write and design your pitch deck for you if you don't want to take the DIY route.
The free plan has limited capabilities but it's enough to see how Slidebean works. To export your presentation, you'll need to upgrade.
There are three price levels from $8/month to $19/month to $149/month. The last one is the Founder's Edition plan, which includes help from the experts on your presentations.
If you choose to get their help on your presentation design, it starts at $29 per slide or $1,999 for the full project.
Slidebean is quite easy to use. You can choose between templates or start from scratch. Adding content is simple and to the point from a popup.
Editing can be done in outline or design mode. The editing is limited to how the content blocks are set up, but there are lots of choices. There's no free size changing or moving around.
Startups, small businesses and entrepreneurs.
There are plenty of template options. They are organized in sections and niche. The template collection has presentations by known brands like Snapchat and Buzzfeed.
There are plenty of icons and images to choose from. However, there are no shapes, but icons can be used as shapes.
GIFs can be added via the Giphy integration in a content block. Video can be added in the paid plans.
There are no audio capabilities.
The code snippet content block has lots of options so a lot of different kinds of third-party content can be added in.
Content blocks and their elements can be animated with a couple features.
Slidebean is an online program on the cloud.
It can be used to edit or view on any device.
Collaboration is possible in the paid plans.
This feature is available in the paid plans.
Sharing to Social Media
Slidebean presentations can be exported to download as both .pdf and .html files to view offline.
This feature is not available.
Analytics are available in the paid plans.
9 Zoho Show
Zoho Show is a presentation software that mimics Microsoft PowerPoint in the way it is set up, with a menu up top for all the actions. However, Zoho's version is much nicer and polished.
Zoho is a complete CRM for businesses and the company offers different types of apps for teams and office use — Zoho Show is only one of their programs.
Creating a presentation with Zoho Show is free for up to 5 users. For more professional features and storage, paid plans start from $3/user/month, paid annually.
Zoho Show is pretty easy to use. The content blocks can be chosen as themes but they can also be moved around freely and resized. The presentation can be viewed in three ways, with a handy grid view to see all slides next to each other.
Businesses, entrepreneurs, educators and students. Anyone who needs to make a presentation.
There aren’t exactly templates, but there are themes. These do not come with images or lorem ipsum but are more like visual canvases that can be customized in terms of color, layout and more.
The shapes are pretty good, there are quite a bit to choose from. An added bonus is the possibility to draw shapes or scribble anything yourself with the trackpad.
Videos can be added via the YouTube integration and GIFs can be added as an image.
Audio can be added via Soundcloud with an embed code.
There are a number of sites that are supported via Embed codes but not that many. Zoho Show says that you can ask your needs to be added in the permitted list.
All elements and transitions can be animated.
Zoho Show is a cloud bases program and can be broadcast from anywhere and on any device. The live broadcast includes a chat window and the audience can download the presentation if they want to.
You can only create presentations on a computer.
Teams can easily use Zoho Show, even in the free version.
Custom branding is only available in the highest paid plan.
Sharing to social media is not possible unless downloaded as a PDF file and then uploaded to something like SlideShare.
Presentations can be downloaded as .pptx or .pdf files for offline viewing.
Yes, this is possible on all plans.
Analytics are possible on the paid plans.
10 Beautiful.ai
Beautiful.ai is a presentation software that helps you create great-looking slides with the help of Artificial Intelligence. This means that your presentation will look professional every single time, regardless of who designs it.
Beautiful.ai currently offers a Pro plan at $12/month and a Team plan at $40/month, both billed annually. They offer a 14-day free trial to test out their tool.
This is probably the best thing about Beautiful.ai — it's incredibly simple to use. All you need to do is add smart slides, plug in your content, and choose from different preset layouts.
Of course, that also means that you have limited customization options. But if you're looking for a simple solution and you don't trust your design skills, this may be a good option for you.
Beautiful.ai is a great tool for absolute beginners and non-designers who are looking for a no-nonsense presentation software.
For example, startups and entrepreneurs can use this software to create a nice-looking pitch deck or proposal quickly without any design help.
There are a handful of slide themes available, but they're mostly basic in terms of design. You can play around with the layouts inside each theme to put together a unique presentation.
The graphic assets library comes with a bunch of free stock photos and icons to choose from, but the options are pretty limited.
Videos and GIFs can be uploaded from your computer. You can also import videos from YouTube and Vimeo to embed in your slides.
Audio can be uploaded from your computer.
It's not possible to embed third-party content into Beautiful.ai presentations. However, you can add interactive links to your slides.
Each slide comes with a preset animation style that you're unable to customize. However, you can change the speed, timing and triggers for the animations.
Beautiful.ai is a cloud-based application.
The software only works on your desktop computer.
You can invite people to collaborate on your presentation by either giving them "view" or "edit" access. Collaborators must have a Beautiful.ai account to view or edit the presentation.
While there's no brand kit feature available, you can customize a theme (colors and fonts) and save it to your library to use in future presentations.
There are several options to share your presentations. Send an email invite, share a public or private link, generate an embed code or share directly to social media.
You can export your presentations to PDF or PowerPoint to view offline.
There is no password protection, but you can use the Secure Viewing option to only share your presentation with other Beautiful.ai users via an email invite.
This feature is only available in the paid plans. You can access a number of viewing and usage statistics for your presentations.
This feature is not available in Beautiful.ai.
11 Genially
The main idea behind the Genially presentation software is interactivity.
This program is good not only for presentations and video presentations, but also for other visual graphics. It’s great for adding a modern, interactive feel to your presentations.
There is a free plan in Genially, which gives you unlimited creations but limited resources.
There are two types of paid plans; education and business. The education plans start at $1.25/month and go up to $20.82/month, billed annually. The professional plans start at $7.49/month and go up to $79.15/month, billed annually. You can also ask for custom plans by reaching out.
Genially is easy to use if you are accustomed to programs with lots of choices. There is a lot that can be done with the features in Genially.
Any change can be applied to all slides with a single click of the button in the menu. When editing, there is a "design view" and a "layers view."
Professionals and educators of any field who can benefit from interactive presentations.
There are plenty of template options. Some are free and some are only available via the premium plans. Presentation templates are also available as "video presentations."
The graphic assets in Genially are quite varied; there is plenty to choose from. Images can be uploaded or found on the Pixabay integration.
Videos can be added via a YouTube link and GIFs can be imported with the Giphy integration.
Audio can be uploaded from your computer, added via SoundCloud and a couple of other integrations, or recorded directly in Genially.
Third-party content can be added to your presentations with Genially integrations. For example, you can add an interactive map via Google Maps.
All elements can be animated, as can the transitions between slides. Animation effects are quite extensive. There is a similar tab called “interactivity,” which are pop-ups and hyperlinks supplied with lots of button choices.
Genially is a cloud-based presentation program.
This program is only available to edit on computers but can be viewed on any device.
It seems that a professional plan allows 5 team members, but the pricing plan shows that all plans have collaborative capabilities. Collaborators can be added in the dashboard where all creations are stored.
Brand kits are available in the premium plans. It is an internal feature with easy access.
Finished presentations can be shared to social media.
Finished presentations can be downloaded as a set of .jpg images, as a .pdf or as an .html5 file which will keep all animations.
Premium plans have these features.
This is not available in Genially.
Last updated on February 4, 2022.
Canva is not only a presentation software but also a full editing program for all visual needs. Presentation creation is only one of the possibilities with Canva. It has become a favorite with bloggers and home-based businesses.
The free version of Canva is pretty extensive.
The only restrictions are the use of premium resources that can be either bought separately or through the Canva Pro plan. Canva Pro is charged at $12.99/month or $119.99/year.
Canva is easy to use as all elements are easy to find and are mostly customizable. Presentations are viewed scrolling; there is no master view and you can’t change something on all slides at once.
Bloggers, small home-based businesses and startups
There are lots of customizable template options, and each slide inside the templates can be used individually.
There are plenty of options in the graphic assets library, including shapes, icons, photos, frames and stickers. Some are free, while others are paid.
Videos and GIFs can be uploaded to Canva.
You can add music to your presentations using the available options inside Canva.
Canva offers dozens of integrations and media embed options, including YouTube, Google Maps, Vimeo, Pinterest, Tumblr, Twitter and more.
There are several animation options that apply to entire slides inside Canva. You can also add animated stickers to your slides.
Canva is a cloud-based app. Presentations can be seen on any device.
Canva is available as an iPhone app and an android app for editing capabilities.
Presentations can be shared for editing with team members.
Canva Pro has a brand kit feature.
Presentations can be shared on Twitter and Facebook.
Presentations can be downloaded as a group of .png or .jpg images or as a .pdf. You can also download it as an MP4 video for offline viewing.
All designs on Canva are private unless they are made public or shared via a link. There is no password protected sharing though.
These features are not available in Canva.
13 FlowVella
FlowVella is a downloadable presentation software that can be used offline. The main attraction of FlowVella is the Kiosk Mode, in which you can create interactive presentations like the ones used in museums or information counters at malls or hotels.
FlowVella is free to try out. You can use it free forever but the options are limited and the finished presentations has a watermark.
FlowVella is pretty easy to use, and the controls are straightforward and uncomplicated.
This presentation software is for professionals and educators that need to be able to create presentations offline. Also for those who can take advantage of the Kiosk Mode.
The template options are quite varied and well designed.
The graphic assets library is very limited. Photographs and images need to be uploaded from your computer.
Videos can be uploaded or found via YouTube, iCloud and Dropbox integrations when online. GIFs can be added as images.
Audio can be uploaded from your computer, or added via iCloud or Dropbox.
You can add PDF files.
Only the transitions are animated minimally.
This is a desktop-based application. It must be downloaded.
There are iPad and device apps available for editing on those devices as well.
Paid premium plans can work with teams.
Brand kits are not available.
Presentations can be shared on Facebook and Twitter.
Since this is a desktop application, offline viewing is not a complication.
These features are available in the paid plans. Analytics can be viewed once the presentation has been published online.
This feature is not available on FlowVella.
14 Haiku Deck
Last updated on October 8, 2020.
Haiku Deck is a presentation software that is straightforward with a simple interface that makes quick and practical presentations. Presentations can be created on the computer and on mobile devices.
Haiku Deck can be tried for free with one available presentation. The Public plan is USD 7.99 a month, Pro plans are USD 9.99 a month billed annually and USD 19.99 billed monthly, and Premium plans are USD 29.99 a month.
Haiku Deck is quite easy to use and menus are easy to follow. There are word size limiters and specific text placement choices for each slide. Charts are simple to create and can be customized. The editor can be connected via cloud to all devices. The new addition, Zuru, is an Artificial Intelligence system that creates creative presentations from simple PowerPoint files or outlines.
The Haiku Deck presentation software is geared mostly at educators and classrooms. Businesses and bloggers can also use it for practical purposes.
Templates on Haiku Deck are more like an inspiring collection of photographs for a specific niche with some suggestions on where to place the text and what charts to include.
The available graphic assets library in Haiku Deck are millions of photographs, numerous font choices and charts and graphs.
YouTube videos can be embedded easily in a Haiku Deck. GIFs cannot be added to Haiku Decks but a finished presentation can be turned into a video or into a GIF.
Narrations and voice overs are easily recorded on a presentation in Haiku Deck.
Only videos can be embedded.
Features can't be animated in Haiku Deck
Desktop or Cloud / Available to Create on Multiple Devices
Haiku Deck is a cloud-based app that is available for editing and viewing on your laptop and also as an app on phones and tablets.
Haiku decks can be downloaded as .pptx files for offline viewing.
Presentations can be easily shared to social media from the editor.
Haiku Deck offers team possibilities upon request.
There is no brand kit, but you can add your logo to the finished product.
Pro and Premium plans have private and password-protected capabilities
Premium plans have analytics for who has viewed your presentations.
Emails cannot be captured with Haiku Deck but slides and presentations can be sent with invitations to your existing email contacts.
15 Microsoft Sway
Microsoft has its own alternative to PowerPoint — Sway.
This online presentation software is completely different from PowerPoint and introduces a new concept of building "Sways" instead of "presentations."
Sway is free to use for anyone who has a Microsoft account.
It's super easy to use Sway and kind of fun too. It has a non-traditional storyline editor, which lets you add "blocks" of content that the software configures into layouts.
Sway is mostly for people who don't want to spend too much time designing a complex presentation. For example, students and nonprofit organizations.
There are several templates for different purposes, such as photo slideshows, sales trainings and even personal portfolios.
You can upload your own media or search from various sources inside Sway, including Flickr and Bing Images. There are no shapes and icons included.
You can upload videos from your device or embed from YouTube.
You can add audio to Sway by uploading or dragging and dropping the audio file onto your storyline from your computer.
You can embed images, videos, maps and other content from tons of websites, including Google Maps, Soundcloud, Twitter, Facebook and more.
Sway automatically adds animations to your slides. You cannot change or customize them; you can only increase or decrease the level of animation added to your Sway.
Sway is an online, cloud-based software.
Sway works on any device with an internet browser.
You can invite people to view or edit your Sway presentation.
Sway presentations can be shared directly to Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
You can download your Sway as a Word or PDF file to view offline.
There is no password protection available, but you can choose to share your Sway with specific people, anyone with a link or only people in your organization who have a link.
You can view reader statistics for your Sway if you have a Microsoft Office 365 subscription.
This feature is not available in Microsoft Sway.
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Create unique word art with MonkeyLearn WordCloud Generator. It's free, and AI-powered for fast, easy, and comprehensive word art construction
ToCloud is an online free word cloud generator that uses word frequency as the weight. Based on the text from a webpage or pasted text, the generated word cloud
The template consists of a single slide. Beneath the slide there are three topic lists and each topic list contains space for 10 words. During
You can create a SmartArt graphic that uses a Venn diagram layout in Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word. Venn diagrams are ideal for illustrating the
These font combinations are perfect if you are trying to design your next logo, presentation, infographic, invitation, postcard, or anything else you'd like
These presentations are delivered in a slide-show format using a combination of text, images and other graphic elements.