14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has recently announced that its Immersive reader is making its way to more Office apps, including PowerPoint for the web, OneDrive, SharePoint, and MakeCode.
The Immersive Reader makes it so much easier to read selected text, as it opens in a dedicated UI with the focus put specifically on the content.
Opening some text in the Immersive Reader in PowerPoint, for example, is as easy as selecting the text, right-clicking it and then launching this feature.
“One of the top requests we’ve heard from students, parents and educators has been to add the Immersive Reader to PowerPoint. It has also been a top UserVoice request for the PowerPoint team. We are excited to announce that Immersive Reader in PowerPoint for the web is rolling out globally to Office Insiders, and will continue rolling out in April. You'll be able to access the Immersive Reader in two areas of PowerPoint for the web,” Microsoft explains.
OneDrive also getting this new feature
OneDrive and SharePoint are also getting the Immersive Reader, with the rollout for both of them to start next month.
“OneDrive is a great place to store and access documents and other content. To enable better access to content, we’re adding the Immersive Reader directly into the OneDrive menus to launch it on Word documents and text files. Another area we’ve heard customer feedback from is making SharePoint pages more accessible with the Immersive Reader. Last fall, we did an internal hackathon to prototype this, and today we are excited to announce that Immersive Reader for SharePoint Pages will be rolling out in April,” the company explains.
In OneDrive, however, the Immersive Reader is offered for documents, and you can find it in the context menu for Word files and text documents when opening the cloud service in the browser.