Sway in Office 365

Sway offers workers a tool to create touch-enabled presentations and share them over the Web to a variety of devices. Currently in preview, Sway is a Microsoft Azure-hosted Web application that requires only a Web browser to create “canvases” or interactive storyboards of content. Sway is independent from PowerPoint, and its canvases could be easier to create for users without professional design support and easier to share online.

Sway canvases are continuous and scrollable, and they work with touch, cursor, or keyboard navigation. Sway performs automatic layout of canvas content to fit devices and can quickly switch among designs (some of which are shown here) with coordinated color schemes, fonts, and other elements. Photos and videos can be added from OneDrive, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or devices, and canvases can be shared to Facebook or Twitter as a link or embedded in a Web page.

Future versions of Sway will integrate with OneDrive for Business and SharePoint (most likely for sharing) and the Office Graph content indexing system to enable search and recommendations. Sway client applications are planned for Windows 10 and are currently available for iPhone and iPad.