Sway Suggestion Box
To help us build the best version of Sway, we have partnered with UserVoice, a third-party service, to hear your ideas and suggestions. We will read all the suggestions, and we regularly review the ideas and incorporate them into product planning discussions. Please note that the suggestion box is moderated and is a voluntary participation-based project. Please do not send any novel or patentable ideas, copyrighted materials, samples or demos for which you do not want to grant a license to Microsoft. Your use of the portal and your submission is subject to the UserVoice Terms of Service & Privacy Policy, including the license terms.
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Live Audience Interaction Via Mobile etc.
I'm sure this is far in the future, but it would be great if there were ways by which your Sway audience (whether or not its a live presentation, or strictly sharing via mobile) could interact with your Sway via their smartphone/tablet/what have you. This would probably just be something simple that can allow the audience to have a more meaningful connection with the Sway, which will make it more impactful. Perhaps the creator of the Sway could allow people to touch/see/hear part of it on their own terms from their mobile devices while you continue to present. These interactions…
6 votesInteresting suggestion! Was there a specific situation you could share that made you think of this functionality? Let us know in the comments.
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1 vote
Thanks for the suggestion! Our embeds adjust according to their iframe, which present problems with the scenario you’re describing. Have you been embedding sways in your Wordpress blogs? Do you make the Sway the primary portion of the post or supplementing it? Has anyone else tried this? Let us know in the comments what Sway/Wordpress integration means to you.
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Navigate in different directions
Today you can chose to navigate from top to bottom or left to right. I really like the way you are able to chose on how to start your Sway. I do like to have the possibillity to chose directions of my Sway after start meaning I can go from top to down or down to top or left to right or right to left, lik creating a thread. Also would be cool to be able to chose multiple roads to navigate like coming to crossroad.
4 votesThanks for the suggestions!
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Smooth scrolling
Having a Sway with many images, I would like to wish a smooth scrolling feature. Scrolling with the mouse is - at least on my system - not very smooth, whereas scrolling by arrow keys is.
24 votesThanks for the suggestion!
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3 votes
Thanks for the suggestion! Do you think this information is valuable to everyone who views the Sway or only for the author? Would you want to be able to “like/star/fave” any other piece of content in the Sway? Anyone who likes this idea, let us know what you think in the comments!
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59 votes
Thanks for the feedback!
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Show annotated PDFS
There should be a way to upload and share PDFs and annotation for class presentations or for proof presentations, to make presentations more interesting.
2 votesHave you tried importing a PDF into Sway? Let us know in the comments if that achieved your goal or not! :)
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Annotating videos
There should be an online way to annotate videos from either YouTube or other online streaming services.
1 voteThanks for the feedback! What type of information do you want to annotate on your video? Let us know in the comments!
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Embed Shazam Tags
There should be an option to share Shazam Tags or embed them into Sway.
1 voteThanks for the suggestion! Out of curiosity, what kind of Sway are you planning on making using Shazam tags? Let us know in the comments!
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Manual markers where presentation should pause
Now when pressing the "next" (>) button, Sway decides how far ahaid it jumps. Sometimes it goes to far and viewers can see what is next. This way they don't stay focused on the current topic.
Because of that, you have already comments on a phrase that is written in the next slide, while it still is completely out of context at that moment.
The only way to avoid this, is to do some scrolling. However, this removes the smoothness and doesn't resolve the problem once Sway supports pointers.
3 votesThanks for the suggestion!
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For my formatting to stay mine!!
I just used Sway for a final presentation and IT. WAS. TERRIBLE.
Because the size of the projector was different than my computer, all of the formatting that I tried so hard to force Sway to do was removed. Sway decided what the images should look like. And they were wrong. Some of my most important equations were shrunken down to the point at which they were no longer useful.
My professor and other students gave negative design feedback regarding the font, the size of pictures and graphs, and the tilt of the images.
I have another final presentation later…7 votesWe’re sorry about your negative experience, and we are avidly working to eliminate the issues you have brought up. We would like to avoid having our end users “force” Sway into specific formatting, which is why we’re working with a new creation paradigm. (You can read more about our philosophy here: http://blogs.office.com/2014/12/10/sway-philosophy/). As we continue to improve our algorithms, we would appreciate any specific feedback you can leave us in the comments! Why were the images wrong? Was it mostly ones that involved text/equations that were no longer useful? What was wrong about the font? Why was the new formatting not effective? Feel free to attach some screenshots if possible (or attach your Sway and the dimensions of the screen it was viewed on) so we can investigate further. Thanks for the feedback! :)
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Ability to share individual sections separately
Sometime, we just want to share a section or target information. We've already known that we create the whole presentation. But, in a situation, we just want to share the direct piece of information or the direct section to our interests.
1 voteThanks for the suggestion!
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Share a OneDrive folder as an auto-generated Sway
I use OneDrive to share pictures with friends and relatives. Unfortunately the display of pictures sucks on OneDrive.
A cool feature would be to be able in OneDrive to have a button "Share this folder as a Sway" , and you would automatically have nice generated Sways from the pictures (and the captions of these pictures).
This Sway would be updated automatically when new pictures are added to the chosen folder.
This would provide a really pleasant way of sharing OneDrive pictures!
38 votesWhile we don’t currently support this feature, if you’re a Windows 10 user, you can use the Photos app to do something similar. Select one of your albums, then click Share → Upload to Sway (or scroll to the bottom and select “Tell your story with Sway”). This will allow you to auto-generate a Sway from all the photos in that album.
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Set the height of the iframe
I don't have a problem with embedding the iFrame into my blog but I want to be able to view the entire Sway in the iFrame and not have scrolling. I am using Tumblr and that may be the cause of the issue. But Tumblr could be a platform that Sway will thrive on ... I would love to be able to embed straight to Tumblr from Sway.
2 votesThanks for the idea. This is to set the “auto height” of the embed so that it expands to the length of the content correct?
Anyone else interested in this idea? Leave a comment below!
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Responsive Text
I realize that this is optimized for Mobile, which is awesome, but when you are viewing the Storyline the text does not extend the entire width of the page, looks to be about 50% of the page. It would be nice for it to have the same layout across all screens.
1 voteThanks for reporting this to us. Which mobile device were you using when hitting this issue? And when you say the text in the storyline, do you simply mean the text you are reading or are you in editing mode looking at the storyline?
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Windows Phone Reader view of a Sway (to enlarge text)
Sways currently appear with "squint print" on Windows phones such as my Lumia Icon. A "Reader" view of Sways would help people who have a hard time dealing with tiny fonts.
1 voteThere is now a text level adjuster for the author of the Sway under Design → Customize. In the future, we may also allow viewers to edit the text size of any Sway they’re currently looking at.
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7 votes
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Picture zoom
i can´t zoom a picture in a sway. (Tablet)
9 votesThanks for the feedback! Currently, we allow you to click a picture to go into detailed view, but we don’t specifically have zoom.
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Bigger scroll button on L-R views
I have my Sway layout right now going from left to right, and I can use the little scroller in the middle of my mouse to easily browse through the photos. However, for those without one of the scrollers on their mouse, or not knowing they can use that to view the images, the < and > buttons in the lower right should be a little bigger (hey, I know how it works but lots of people are a bit slower), and I also wish they would respond a bit quicker when you do click on them, as there is…
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Can I export an audio file that is in Sway?
I would like to export the audio file i recorded in Sway so i can use it elsewhere without having to record it again.
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