{"id":168970,"date":"2021-06-04T09:25:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T07:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=168970"},"modified":"2025-07-01T21:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T04:05:07","slug":"how-to-update-microsoft-powerpoint-in-5-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-update-microsoft-powerpoint-in-5-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Update Microsoft Powerpoint in 5 Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/microsoft-powerpoint.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Powerpoint<\/a> forms part of the Office suite of software. The program has to be updated periodically to ensure that they continue working and fix any bugs or issues that users may be experiencing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can turn on automatic updates so that your Office products update whenever Windows updates from the \u2018Systems and Security\u2019 panel. However, if you prefer to update your programs manually, here\u2019s how to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"howto_container schema-howto-acf-block\"><ol><li><div class=\"howto_item\"><h2>Launch Powerpoint<\/h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/How-to-Update-Microsoft-Powerpoint-1.jpg\" alt=\"How to Update Microsoft Powerpoint\" width=\"369\" height=\"183\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Launch <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microsoft<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Powerpoint<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on your computer by double-clicking on the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Powerpoint<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> icon on the desktop or from the Start menu.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click the \u2018File\u2019 tab in the menu at the top of your screen.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><li><div class=\"howto_item\"><h2>Click on \u2018Updates\u2019<\/h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/How-to-Update-Microsoft-Powerpoint-2.jpg\" alt=\"How to Update Microsoft Powerpoint\" width=\"498\" height=\"460\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click \u2018<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Update<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Options\u2019 and then choose to disable all <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">updates<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. You need to first disable the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">updates<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> so that we can force an update in the next step. This is important to complete the manual <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">update<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Powerpoint<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><li><div class=\"howto_item\"><h2>Enable Updates<\/h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/How-to-Update-Microsoft-Powerpoint-3.jpg\" alt=\"How to Update Microsoft Powerpoint\" width=\"1048\" height=\"717\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click \u2018<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Update<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Options\u2019 again, and this time choose \u2018Enable <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Updates<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019 to force <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Powerpoint<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">update<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> if there is one available. You may need to restart <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Powerpoint<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and any other Office programs once the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">update<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has been completed.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><\/ol><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t.howto_container {\n\t  margin: 0 auto;\n\t}\n\t.howto_container img {\n\t\theight: 100%;\n\t\tmargin-bottom: 30px;\n\t}\n\t\n\t\t  .howto_container h2 {\n\t\t\t  clear: none !important;\n\t\t  }\n\t\t  .howto_container ol {\n\t\t\t  list-style: none !important;\n\t\t  }\t\n\t.howto_container ol li::before {\n\t\tcolor: #ffffff !important;\n\t\tbackground:#0073aa !important;\n\t}\n<\/style>\n\n\t\t\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Update Powerpoint to Get More Features<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By updating Powerpoint, you ensure that your program will continue to work correctly and also install new features and improved security settings. Why not try updating your Powerpoint now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Powerpoint forms part of the Office suite of software. The program has to be updated periodically to ensure that they continue working and fix any bugs or issues that users may be experiencing.&nbsp; You can turn on automatic updates so that your Office products update whenever Windows updates from the \u2018Systems and Security\u2019 panel. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-update-microsoft-powerpoint-in-5-steps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Update Microsoft Powerpoint in 5 Steps&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9205,"featured_media":181524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2526],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-168970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionmicrosoft-powerpoint"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324745,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168970\/revisions\/324745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168970"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=168970"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=168970"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=168970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}