Office Sway is now available to everyone

2 and a half months have passed since Microsoft introduced Sway, a new product from the Office suite designed 100% for the age of Mobile first, Cloud first , with a web interface accessible from any device, and oriented toward creating content that is easy to share in the cloud At that time the service was introduced as Closed Preview, and since then Microsoft has received more than 175,000 requests to test its new service.

Either because of that, or because Sway is already in a more mature phase, Redmond has decided to move into the Public Preview phase, allowing us all try the service just by entering the Sway website.com and sign in with a Microsoft account.

But that is not all. Along with the release of this Public Preview, Microsoft has announced a handful of changes aimed at refining the Sway experience, based on feedback from beta- testers so far. Some of them are the addition of undo and redo buttons, and support for bulleted and numbered lists within text. The latter even allows you to automatically insert bullets in those sections where we have used mark-up as a substitute for them (for example, anasterisk at the beginning of each line).

Other useful new features are support for editing text directly from Canvas mode, the ability to reorder sections of our presentation via simple drag and drop, and the ability to import PDFs, either from the Sway Home screen, in order to create a new presentation from the imported PDF, or, using the Upload command once we already have a Sway open, to insert the PDF as a section within the presentation we are working on.

Lastly, the Office guys let us know that they've made improvements to the color picker tool Sway was able to do it before to automatically choose a color palette from an image that we selected (i.e. look for colors that match each other, and with the image). However, the color selection algorithm has now been improved so that we receive more and better palette suggestions

As we said at the beginning, all these novelties are available to try from now on by anyone with just entering the Sway.com websiteand sign in with a Microsoft account.

Via | Office Blogs
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