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Microsoft adds Sway presentation tool to Office suite

Microsoft is hoping to Sway a few more people with its new presentation tool.

The company on Wednesday is taking the “preview” label off of Sway, the design and presentation app introduced last year.

Business users of the Office 365 Web-based productivity suite will see Sway appear alongside Word, Excel and other Office applications. Preview versions of the tool, already included among the free-to-use Office Online apps, will stay there for consumers to use. The company is also releasing a Windows 10 app to accompany the apps that were released earlier for Apple devices.

Sway is designed to divorce the act of creating presentations from micromanaging fonts or color palettes.