Features
PowerPoint presentations can be opened, edited with themes, shapes and tables, provided with transitions and animations, presented in presenter view, and saved again as .pptx.
Key features
- PowerPoint import
- Master and layout placeholders, theme colours and fonts, tables and table styles, groups, cropped images, backgrounds, notes, hidden slides, sections, transitions and entrance animations. SmartArt is converted into shapes; all adapted elements are listed in a report.
- Saving as .pptx
- The theme, master and seven layouts, placeholders, text formatting, shapes, lines, images, tables, notes, sections, transitions and animations are written.
- Arrangement
- Moving, resizing and rotating; smart alignment guides; alignment and distribution; bring forward/send backward; locking; opacity, shadow, outline style and arrowheads. Objects or slides can be copied, cut and pasted between open presentations.
- Design
- Six themes; changing the theme updates colours and fonts on every slide. 16:9 or 4:3; solid, gradient or image backgrounds, with an option to apply to all slides.
- Transitions and animations
- Fade, push, wipe, zoom and cover transitions; fade-in, fly-in from bottom/left, zoom and wipe entrance effects. Duration, order and click-grouped steps; an animation pane.
- Presenter view
- The audience view opens in a separate window; the presenter sees a timer, clock, the next slide and resizable notes.
- Slides
- Thumbnail panel with drag-to-reorder, multiple selection, duplication, hiding, grouping into sections and layout changes. Slide sorter view. Seven layouts: Title, Title and content, Two content, Section header, Title only, Quote, Blank.
- Insertion
- Text boxes, 16 shapes (rectangle, ellipse, star, arrow, speech bubble, heart …), lines and arrows, images, and tables with adjustable rows and columns.
- Rich text
- Edited in place: font, size, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, colour; bullets, numbering, indentation, alignment, line spacing. Overflowing text is reduced to fit.
- Slide show
- Full screen from the beginning (F5) or from the current slide (⇧F5). Black/white screen, laser pointer, and a cursor that is hidden when idle.
- PDF and printing
- Visible slides are sent to the browser's print dialog; with "Save as PDF" the text remains vector.
- Workspace
- Folder panel, multiple presentations in tabs, up to 100 undo steps, and a warning before closing with unsaved changes.
Operating system integration
Integrations provided by the desktop application. Desktop versions are listed on the Download page as they become available.
macOS
- Presentation files are listed in the Open With menu
- .vistelo files are associated with Vistelo
- The default application is not changed without the user's consent
Windows
- Vistelo in the Open with menu
- Installation requires no administrator rights
- x64 and ARM64 in a single installer
Linux
- AppImage and .deb packages
- Open with for presentation types
- Optional desktop integration for the AppImage
Devices and browsers
- Designed for desktop and tablet browsers. On narrow screens the ribbon is simplified; a phone-specific layout is not yet available.
- In Chrome, Edge and Opera, a folder can be connected and files are saved directly to it. In Safari and Firefox, files can be opened and saved files are provided as downloads.
- Presenter view requires the browser to permit pop-up windows for the site.
Keyboard shortcuts
⌘ and ⌥ are used on macOS; Ctrl and Alt on Windows and Linux.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl/⌘ S | Save |
| Ctrl/⌘ ⇧ S | Save as |
| Ctrl/⌘ ⌥ N | New presentation |
| F5 / ⇧ F5 | Present from start / current slide |
| ⌥ F5 | Presenter view |
| Ctrl/⌘ Enter | New slide |
| Ctrl/⌘ D | Duplicate |
| Ctrl/⌘ B · I · U | Bold · Italic · Underline |
| T · R · O · L | Text box · Rectangle · Ellipse · Line |
| Enter / F2 | Edit text |
| B · W · L | During a show: black · white screen · laser |
| ? | Shortcut list |
On touch screens, icon buttons are enlarged to 44 px; objects are selected, moved and resized by touch. During a show, tapping the screen advances to the next step.
Get Vistelo
Try it in the browser without installation; for continued use, purchase the version for macOS, Windows or Linux.