Here are 5 reasons that I’m thinking about making the switch from PowerPoint to Slides: Reason 1 - Built For Collaboration: Collaboration is the big reason to go with Google Slides. The ability to easily share and simultaneously edit a Google Drive document is the platform's biggest selling point. Our presentations, like our documents, are increasingly created and presented with collaborators. Reason 2 - Simple UI Encourages Simpler Presentations: This reason took me by surprise. I thought that I’d miss all the options in PowerPoint. What I’m finding is that by having fewer options to build the presentation my finished deck looks cleaner and simpler. Reason 3 - Offline Access for Editing and Presenting: The big worry with using Google Drive has been offline access. It seems that Google is getting much closer to solving this problem. For Google Slides I needed to download the Slides app in from the Chrome browser from the Chrome Web Store. . Reason 4 - Access