How to use Microsoft Sway - Tutorial for Beginners

Summary

En este video, Kevin, empleado de Microsoft, presenta Microsoft Sway, una herramienta gratuita para crear documentos, presentaciones y comunicados visualmente atractivos en poco tiempo. Se muestra cómo acceder a Sway a través de office.com, las opciones para comenzar un nuevo proyecto, y cómo agregar contenido y personalizar el diseño. También se destaca la facilidad de uso, la capacidad de compartir y editar en línea, y la adaptabilidad de Sway a diferentes tamaños de pantalla.

Takeaways

• 😀 Kevin, un empleado de Microsoft, presenta cómo obtener y utilizar Microsoft Sway.
• 🎨 Sway permite crear documentos, presentaciones, boletines y comunicaciones visualmente atractivas en poco tiempo.
• 🆓 Sway es completamente gratuito y no requiere ningún costo de uso.
• 🌐 Sway está disponible en la web y como aplicación para Windows, pero esta última es simplemente un contenedor para la versión web.
• 💻 Para acceder a Sway, se necesita una cuenta de Microsoft, la cual se puede crear de forma gratuita.
• 🔍 Sway no aparece en la lista de aplicaciones principales de Office.com, pero se puede encontrar en 'Todas las aplicaciones'.
• 📄 Sway ofrece la opción de crear un documento desde cero, a partir de un tema o desde otro documento existente.
• 📊 El panel de inicio de Sway incluye opciones para ver mis Sways, Sways vistos, análisis y plantillas para iniciar la creación.
• 🗂 El diseño de Sway incluye vistas de 'Línea de tiempo' y 'Diseño', donde se agregan y organizan los elementos del contenido.
• 🖼️ Sway permite agregar y personalizar imágenes de fondo, con la opción de establecer puntos focales para su visualización en diferentes dispositivos.
• 📝 Se pueden insertar diferentes tipos de contenido en Sway, como texto, imágenes, videos, y se pueden agrupar en secciones.
• 🔄 Sway ofrece la capacidad de cambiar el diseño y estilo del contenido, y de personalizar colores, tipografías y animaciones.
• 🔄 El contenido en Sway se guarda automáticamente en la nube, y se puede compartir a través de enlaces o integrarlo en otros sitios web.
• 🔄 También es posible transformar documentos de Word en Sway utilizando la opción 'Transformar en' en el menú de archivos.

Q & A

¿Qué es Microsoft Sway y qué permite hacer?

Microsoft Sway es una herramienta que permite crear documentos, presentaciones, newsletters y comunicaciones visualmente atractivas en solo unos minutos.

¿Por qué podría ser útil Microsoft Sway para alguien que no es diseñador?

Microsoft Sway es útil para personas que no son diseñadores porque permite crear contenido atractivo sin conocimientos previos de diseño, con solo agregar contenido y Sway se encarga de hacer que se vea bien.

¿Cuál es el costo de utilizar Microsoft Sway?

Microsoft Sway es completamente gratuito, no tiene costo alguno para su uso.

¿Existen diferentes versiones de Microsoft Sway y cómo se pueden usar?

Existen dos versiones de Microsoft Sway: una que se puede usar en la web y otra que es una aplicación de Windows que sirve como contenedor para la versión web, ambas ofrecen la misma funcionalidad.

¿Cómo se puede acceder a Microsoft Sway desde office.com?

Para acceder a Microsoft Sway desde office.com, se debe iniciar sesión en la página, luego hacer clic en 'All apps' y seleccionar Sway, o bien usar el menú del launcher de aplicaciones.

¿Qué opciones tiene un usuario al comenzar a crear un nuevo Sway?

Un usuario tiene la opción de crear un Sway desde un lienzo en blanco, comenzar desde un tema específico o desde un documento existente como Word, PowerPoint o PDF.

¿Qué se puede hacer en la página de inicio de Sway además de crear un nuevo Sway?

En la página de inicio de Sway, además de crear un nuevo Sway, se pueden ver Sways previamente trabajados, Sways vistos, análisis de visitas (requiere una suscripción de Microsoft 365) y opciones de administración de archivos como recuperar o eliminar Sways borrados.

¿Cómo se pueden agregar tarjetas de contenido adicionales en Microsoft Sway?

Se pueden agregar tarjetas de contenido adicionales en Microsoft Sway haciendo clic en el botón '+' en la parte inferior del contenido existente y seleccionando el tipo de contenido que se desea agregar.

¿Qué es un 'card' en Microsoft Sway y cómo se pueden personalizar?

Un 'card' en Microsoft Sway es una pieza de contenido. Se pueden personalizar agregando texto, imágenes, videos, estableciendo el énfasis y ajustando el fondo, entre otras opciones.

¿Cómo se pueden compartir los Sways creados y qué opciones son disponibles para esto?

Los Sways creados se pueden compartir copiando un enlace, permitiendo la edición, creando un enlace visual, compartiendo en redes sociales o obteniendo un código para incrustarlo en un sitio web.

¿Cómo se puede transformar un documento de Word en un Sway y qué implica esto?

Desde Word, se puede seleccionar la opción 'Transformar' en el menú 'Archivo' para convertir un documento en un Sway. Esto implica que el contenido del documento se adapta al formato de Sway, creando una presentación web interactiva.

¿Cómo se garantiza que los cambios en Microsoft Sway se guarden automáticamente?

Microsoft Sway guarda automáticamente todos los cambios en la nube, lo que significa que no es necesario hacer clic en 'Guardar' o 'Guardar como' para mantener los avances.

¿Cómo se puede navegar rápidamente entre secciones en un Sway?

Se puede navegar rápidamente entre secciones en un Sway usando el icono en la esquina inferior derecha que permite moverse por las secciones correspondientes a cada encabezado.

Outlines

00:00

😀 Introducción a Microsoft Sway

Kevin, empleado de Microsoft, presenta Microsoft Sway, una herramienta gratuita para crear documentos, presentaciones, newsletters y comunicaciones visualmente atractivas en poco tiempo. Mencionando su experiencia fácil de usar y su disponibilidad en la web y como aplicación de Windows, donde esta última sirve como contenedor para la versión web.

05:02

🌐 Cómo obtener y usar Microsoft Sway

Kevin explica cómo acceder a Microsoft Sway a través de office.com, requiriendo una cuenta de Microsoft para iniciar sesión. Detalla los pasos para encontrar Sway entre las herramientas de productividad de Office.com, como Outlook, OneDrive, Word, Excel, PowerPoint y OneNote. También se menciona la opción de crear una cuenta nueva de forma gratuita y cómo navegar por las diferentes secciones de Sway, incluyendo la creación de un nuevo documento, el uso de temas, la importación de documentos existentes y la personalización de plantillas.

10:02

🖼️ Creando contenido en Sway

Se describe el proceso de creación de contenido en Sway, comenzando con la adición de un título y la selección de una imagen de fondo para el encabezado. Kevin agrega una biografía y una imagen de sí mismo, utilizando herramientas para resaltar texto, agregar enlaces e insertar imágenes y videos. Explica cómo se pueden utilizar los puntos focales para asegurar que elementos específicos de las imágenes sean visibles en diferentes dispositivos y cómo se pueden agregar y organizar tarjetas de contenido adicionales.

15:06

🎨 Personalización y compartición de Sway

Kevin muestra cómo personalizar el diseño de Sway, incluyendo la selección de estilos, colores, tipografías y animaciones. Detalla la función 'remix' que permite a Sway combinar diferentes diseños automáticamente. También se discute la navegación dentro de un Sway y cómo compartirlo, ya sea a través de un enlace, enlaces visuales, o integrándolo en redes sociales y sitios web. Finalmente, se menciona la compatibilidad de Sway con diferentes tamaños de pantalla y cómo se guarda automáticamente en la nube.

Keywords

💡Microsoft Sway

Microsoft Sway es una herramienta de Microsoft que permite crear documentos, presentaciones, newsletters y comunicaciones visualmente atractivas en poco tiempo. Es fundamental para el tema del video, ya que el presentador, Kevin, muestra cómo utilizarla. En el guion, se menciona que Sway permite a los usuarios, incluso sin habilidades de diseño, crear contenido atractivo rápidamente.

💡Documentos

En el contexto del video, los documentos se refieren a una de las varias formas en que se pueden presentar los trabajos en Microsoft Sway. Los documentos, junto con las presentaciones y newsletters, son ejemplos de los tipos de contenido que se pueden crear con esta herramienta, como se destaca cuando Kevin explica las capacidades de Sway.

💡Diseño

El diseño es un aspecto clave en Microsoft Sway, ya que permite a los usuarios dar forma visual a su contenido. El término se refiere a la apariencia y el estilo de los documentos creados en Sway, y es central en el proceso de creación, como se muestra cuando Kevin selecciona y personaliza el diseño de su Sway.

💡Presentaciones

Las presentaciones son una forma de contenido que se puede crear con Microsoft Sway. Son una parte importante de la funcionalidad de la herramienta, permitiendo a los usuarios presentar información de manera visual y dinámica. En el script, se menciona que Sway puede ser utilizado para crear presentaciones que son hermosas y efectivas.

💡Newsletters

Los newsletters son otro tipo de contenido que se puede diseñar con Microsoft Sway. Son una forma de comunicación que se puede personalizar y hacer atractiva visualmente. En el guion, se menciona que Sway puede ser utilizado para crear newsletters, lo que demuestra la versatilidad de la herramienta.

💡Funcionalidad

La funcionalidad hace referencia a las capacidades y características de Microsoft Sway. Es un concepto central en el video, ya que Kevin demuestra las distintas funcionalidades de Sway, como la creación de documentos, la selección de diseños y la personalización de contenido.

💡Plantillas

Las plantillas son una característica de Microsoft Sway que permiten a los usuarios comenzar con un diseño preestablecido. En el script, se menciona que Sway ofrece plantillas para newsletters, currículos y presentaciones de negocios, lo que ayuda a los usuarios a iniciar su contenido de manera rápida y sencilla.

💡Contenido

El contenido se refiere a la información y los elementos que se añaden a un documento de Sway, como texto, imágenes, videos y audios. Es un término clave en el guion, ya que Kevin explica cómo agregar y organizar el contenido en Sway para crear una presentación efectiva.

💡Animaciones

Las animaciones son efectos visuales que se pueden incluir en los documentos de Sway para hacer que el contenido sea más dinámico y atractivo. En el video, se menciona que Sway tiene animaciones incorporadas que se pueden ver en la vista de reproducción, lo que contribuye a la experiencia de visualización del documento.

💡Compartir

Compartir es la acción de hacer que el contenido de Sway esté disponible para otros usuarios, ya sea para visualización o edición. En el guion, Kevin explica cómo se puede compartir un Sway mediante un enlace, permitiendo que otros vean o contribuyan al contenido creado.

💡Nube

La nube se refiere a la capacidad de almacenar y acceder a los documentos de Sway en línea, lo que permite una edición y colaboración más sencilla. En el script, se destaca que todos los cambios realizados en Sway se guardan automáticamente en la nube, lo que garantiza la preservación del trabajo.

Highlights

Microsoft Sway allows for the creation of visually stunning documents, presentations, newsletters, and communications quickly.

Sway is accessible to anyone, even non-designers, as demonstrated by the presenter's ability to create an attractive layout without professional design skills.

Sway is entirely free to use, offering a cost-effective solution for creating professional-looking content.

There are two versions of Sway available: a web version and a Windows app that serves as a container for the web version.

The presenter will demonstrate the use of Sway on the web, guiding viewers through the process of getting started.

Microsoft Sway can be accessed through office.com after signing in with a Microsoft account.

Sway is part of the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, alongside other productivity tools like Outlook, OneDrive, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Users can start a new Sway from a blank canvas, a topic, or an existing document like Word, PowerPoint, or PDF.

Sway offers analytics for presentations, requiring a Microsoft 365 subscription, to track views and viewing duration.

Sway provides templates for various purposes such as newsletters, resumes, and business presentations.

Featured Sways showcase the potential of the platform, inspiring users with examples of what can be created.

The storyline view in Sway is where users add and organize content, while the design view focuses on the aesthetic presentation.

Sway's content is organized into cards, which can be easily added, modified, or rearranged.

Users can insert various types of content into Sway, including text, images, videos, audio, and social media posts.

Focus points ensure that important parts of an image or video are always visible, regardless of the device's display size.

Sway offers customization options for layout, colors, typography, and animations to create a personalized presentation.

The remix feature in Sway allows users to experiment with different design combinations to find a preferred style.

Sway is designed to be responsive, ensuring that presentations look good on various screen sizes, including mobile devices.

Sway presentations are automatically saved in the cloud, providing a seamless and worry-free editing experience.

Users can easily share their Sway creations with others via link, social media, or by embedding on a website.

Sway can transform existing Word documents into web pages, providing an additional way to utilize the platform.

Transcripts

Hi everyone, my name is Kevin. Today I want  to show you how you can both get and also use  

Microsoft Sway. As full disclosure, before  we jump into this, I work at Microsoft as  

a full-time employee. First off, what is Microsoft  Sway? Well, Microsoft Sway allows you to create  

visually stunning documents, presentations,  newsletters, and communications in a matter of  

minutes. Now, I've been playing around with Sway  and I'm by no means a designer and I added some  

content in and I was able to make it look gorgeous  in just a matter of moments. So, if I could do it,  

you could certainly do it as well. Now, one of  the best parts about Sway is that it's entirely  

free. It won't cost you anything to use. And there  are two different versions of Sway. You can either  

use it on the web. There's also a Windows app, but  the Windows app simply serves as a container for  

the web version of Sway. So, whichever one you  use, you'll get the exact same functionality.  

Today I'm going to show it on the web and  show you how to get started with it. Well,  

instead of me describing and explaining what Sway  does, why don't we jump on the PC and first off,  

I'll show you how you could get it and then I'll  show you how you could use it. Here I am on my PC  

and to get Microsoft Sway, let's head to the  website office.com. Once you land on office.com,  

click on sign in. When you click on sign  in, this will drop us on the sign in screen,  

and if you already have a Microsoft account, you  can go ahead and type it in here and then sign  

in. If you don't have an account yet, you could  create one. Creating a new account is entirely  

free. It's not going to cost you anything. So,  once you either create an account or you sign in,  

the next thing that will happen is you'll land  on the authenticated page of office.com. On  

office.com, not only are we going to get to Sway  from here, but you also get all of these other  

productivity tools as well. You get Outlook,  you get free cloud storage space with OneDrive,  

you get Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote.  You get all of these different apps. Now,  

one thing you might notice is Sway is not part  of the initial set of apps here. To get to Sway,  

we need to click on all apps and then there's an  option here that says Sway. Another way that we  

can also get to Sway, regardless of where you  happen to be in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem,  

you could go up here in the top left-hand corner,  click on the app launcher or the waffle menu and  

here to click on all apps, and then you also will  see an option for Sway here. So, either way you go  

will get you into Sway. I'll go ahead and click  on Sway here. This drops me on the Sway homepage  

and I see a very nice message here welcoming  me to Sway. I want to walk through what some  

of the capabilities are on the Sway start page.  So first off, you have the option to create a new  

blank Sway and we're going to do that in just a  moment. So this allows you to start from a blank  

canvas. Now, you also have the option to start  from a topic. If I click on that, you could type  

in whatever the topic is and it'll pull in data  from Wikipedia to help you get started on a Sway.  

And the third option here is you can  also start from a document. So let's say  

you have a Word document, a PowerPoint or a PDF.  If you click here, you can upload that into Sway  

and then you'll start from that. As I look down  on the start page, I also see this section here  

that says my Sways. This is where I can see  any of the Sways that I've worked on before  

right here. I can also see Sways that I viewed. So  maybe not necessarily Sways that I've created, but  

maybe, you know, a coworker or a classmate of mine  created a Sway and I can get back to that as well.  

I can also see analytics related to any of my  Sways. This requires a Microsoft 365 subscription,  

but you can see things like how many people  viewed it, how long they viewed it for.  

And lastly, under deleted, you have some  file management capabilities where you could  

recover deleted Sways or you could permanently  delete Sways. As I work my way down the page,  

there are also Sway templates that you could  simply start from. So maybe you're not feeling  

inspired to start your own content and instead  you could simply start from existing content. They  

have a few examples like a newsletter, a resume,  a business presentation. So you could start from  

this. Just like in Word, Excel, PowerPoint,  you have templates that you can start from.  

And then at the very bottom to help inspire  you about what you could do with Sway,  

Sway also has featured Sways. So you could  take a look at those and it'll show you  

everything that's possible. What I want to do is  I want to get started with a blank Sway just to  

show you how you can get started. Let's say  if a Sway doesn't yet exist. So to do that,  

I'm going to click on create new and this will  drop me in Microsoft Sway. And it looks pretty  

empty here right now because I haven't created  anything yet. To orient you to Microsoft Sway,  

I want to talk about the layout here. So  some of the things you'll see is on the top,  

I have these two different tabs. One of them is  the storyline view, and by default, I'm dropped  

within this view. The storyline is where I add all  of my content into my Sway and where I organize  

the order in which my content appears. And then  next to that, I have another tab called design.  

Design is the look and feel of my Sway.  I don't have any content in my Sway yet,  

so I won't be able to do that much in design.  First, I'm going to get some content in and then  

we'll go, and we'll adjust the look and feel of my  Sway. Now, on the actual page itself, you see one  

piece of content here. This is referred to as  a card, and I'm going to add a set of cards  

to start building out the content within my  Sway. And I need some type of content to build  

my Sway on, and I figured there's no better topic  than to talk about myself, Kevin Stratvert. So,  

we're going to make a Sway about me, and I'll use  that to demonstrate how you can use Sway. And here  

it says, give your Sway a title. So, I'm going to  go ahead and let's simply call it Kevin Stratvert,  

and then I'm going to say a super cool guy,  because if you state it, that makes it true,  

right? So, there we go. There's my header. Some of  the things that I can do if I highlight some text,  

I could emphasize it. That'll make it  bold. I could accent. That's kind of  

like italicizing. And I could also insert a  link here if that's what I would like to do.  

And over here, I can associate a background image  with my header. So, if I click on add background  

image, here I see that I could browse from content  from many different places. So, I'm going to click  

on this dropdown. I could use suggested images.  I could also pull images from OneDrive, Flickr,  

Bing images, Picket, YouTube, or I could even  upload from my device. Here I could search for  

different images. And here I see groups  of images. So, if I click on backgrounds,  

I could see example images. One thing that's nice  is these are all Creative Commons images, meaning  

that I could use these in my presentation, and I  don't have to worry about people coming after me  

and suing me. In my case, I already have an image  that I want to use here. So once again, I could  

click on this dropdown, and I could upload from  my device. Or alternatively, what I can also do  

is I could simply grab the image from my desktop  and then I could drop it over here, and that will  

upload my image. On the card, there's one thing  we haven't talked about yet, and that is the item  

here that says focus points. When I click on this,  it pulls up my background photo that I uploaded,  

and here down below, you'll see how the image  appears on different device types. So I could  

see on a desktop type display or a mobile display  what it'll look like. Now you'll see on the larger  

display, it cuts off part of the image. If I set  a focus point by clicking on the image, what that  

does is it assures that that portion of the image  will be visible. So here if I move the focus point  

down, here you see that it shows that part of the  image. But I want to make sure my face is shown,  

so I'm going to set the focus point on my face,  and I think that looks good, so I'm going to  

click on the X. I've inserted my header or my  title to my Sway, and now what I want to do is  

I want to add an additional card, and to do that,  there's a plus button at the base of this content,  

and if I click on that, I can insert additional  content types. Now, the first view is suggested,  

so these are the most frequently used types of  content. I could simply select one of these,  

or I could choose different categories  of card types. I could insert text,  

I could insert media like images, videos,  audio, I could even embed things like  

tweets, and here if I click on group, I could  insert groups of content. We'll walk through  

these and I'll show how these different items  work, but for now I want to insert some text. So  

I'm going to click on text and then select a text  block. And here I'm going to paste in some text  

about myself. If any of you are curious, I was  born in New York City, grew up next door in New  

Jersey, went to school in Michigan, and then  I moved out to Seattle to work at Microsoft.  

So one thing that you might notice with this  is I start on the East Coast, I move out to  

the Midwest, and then I eventually end up on  the West Coast. So maybe my next stop's Hawaii,  

I don't know, we'll see what happens. I wouldn't  mind that. So, I've inserted some text in here,  

and what I could do is here I could say, hey,  this is a heading. I could emphasize the text,  

accent, I could add bullets, numbers, I could  insert a link. And over here I have two options  

to set the emphasis. So here I could set subtle  emphasis, or here I could set moderate emphasis.  

The main difference is if I go with moderate, it  makes my text a little larger. If I do that with  

an image or a video, it also makes sure that it  appears more prominently in my Sway. So, for this,  

I'm satisfied with moderate. Now what I want to  do next, let me click on the plus again, and I'm  

going to insert, let's say, an image, and here,  too, what I'm going to do is I'm simply going  

to drag and drop an image to upload it, and maybe  I'm going to insert some text alongside my image.  

And this image is going to be, and you'll see in  a moment, it's a picture of me next to a gimbal.  

And what a gimbal allows you to do is you can get  stabilized video using it, and so here it is. And  

once again, I could click on focus points, and  here you'll see on the larger screen my head is  

cut off. So, I'm going to click on my head, and  maybe I'm going to click on the camera as well,  

just to ensure that both of those are shown  within the image. And I'm satisfied with this,  

so I'm going to close it out. I'm going to click  on the plus again, and let me add a heading now.  

And within the heading, maybe I want to call  this how I ended up at Microsoft. And instead of  

uploading my own photo, what I want to do  is I'm simply going to click on background,  

and here I'll show how you can search for  a photo. So, I'll search for Microsoft,  

and I should get a whole bunch of selections back.  A number of these have the old Microsoft logo.  

This one is the new Microsoft logo, so I'll select  that and add it. I could also go through and  

select multiple images if I wanted to do that. But  in this case, I'm going to go ahead and add that,  

and that image will be now associated with this  text. So, the next thing I want to do as part  

of this heading, maybe for this header how I  ended up with Microsoft, it might be nice to  

have a video go along with that. So, I'm going to  click at the base, and I'm going to go to media,  

video, and then here what I can do is if  I click on this dropdown, I could insert,  

let's say, a YouTube video. And so, what I'm going  to do here is I'm going to search for my name,  

and I recently did a video on how I got a job at  Microsoft. So, I'll search for Kevin Stratvert  

job, and here it's the first video that pops up,  and I could add that in, and maybe I even put  

a caption in here as well. And here, too, what I  could do is I could set the emphasis, and so maybe  

here I'm going to put down intense emphasis, so  it takes up a large portion of the screen. Lastly,  

I'm going to add one more heading again. I'm going  to click on the plus icon, and I'm going to click  

on heading, and here for this one I'm going to  call this photos. So let me click into the text  

area. We're going to call this photos, and what  I'm going to do next is let's insert some text  

to go along with this. So, I'm going to click on  plus. Let's insert some more text. So here are  

some photos of me when I was trying to land on a  new photo for YouTube. Many thanks to Tara Brown  

for all of these amazing photos. There's a link  to her YouTube page in the description. And so,  

what I could do now is I'm going to click on  plus, and I want to show what it looks like when I  

insert groups of content. So, I'm going to click  on groups, and I'll go with automatic to see how  

that turns out. So here, too, for automatic what  I can do is I'm going to highlight a bunch of  

photos on my PC, and I'll simply drag them over  to add the content, and this will upload them to  

Sway. All of my images have finished uploading,  and here I see them within this category or this  

group. And so, one of the things that you'll  see is within Sway I have all these different  

headings, and the headings serve as a container  for the content. So here I could both expand  

and collapse the different headings. Now  one thing that's very nice about Sway  

is just like the name implies storyline, I can  move content around my page. So here I can simply  

drag and drop if let's say I want to put this  how I ended up with Microsoft after my photos,  

or I could drag and drop it above. And similarly,  I can also move the content within around as I see  

fit. So, it's very easy to move your content  around and get it in a flow that makes sense.  

I have all of my content in my Sway now, and  what I want to do next is let's see what the  

design looks like. And to do that, I'm going to go  up on top like we started with, and I'm going to  

jump into the design view. Here I am in the  design view, and here you see a sample of  

what this looks like. So here I could scroll down  and I could see what my content looks like. So,  

it looks pretty nice. It actually came out very  nicely. Here you see how Sway grouped all the  

photos together. I'm actually pretty satisfied  with this. This looks good, but if I did want  

to modify my Sway, I can do that, and over here in  the top right-hand corner, I can click on styles.  

When I click on styles, I could adjust whether  it's a vertical layout, a horizontal layout,  

or a slide layout. So, let's see what this looks  like. By default, it's in this vertical layout.  

I could switch it to horizontal, and rather  than going up and down like horizontal implies,  

I could go side to side or left to right. And  I could also view it in a slide format similar  

to PowerPoint where I could jump through from  slide to slide. I like the vertical format,  

so I'm going to go back to that. Down here, I  could also customize my Sway with custom colors,  

typography, and textures. I'll click into that and  show you what this looks like. So here I could set  

the colors I like. I could define the colors  I like. I could even pick colors from my photo  

if I wanted to do that. I see different color  palettes, fonts, and then I could set how I want  

to emphasize animations and the text size. I'm  going to leave them as they are, but I just want  

to show some of the controls and capabilities that  you have within Sway. And down here at the bottom,  

this is where I see the core styles of Sway. So  here I could simply click on one of these styles  

and apply it to my Sway. When I say 7 core  styles, each row is one of the core styles,  

so I have seven rows here. And then you see slight  variations across each style. So, I'm going to  

jump back. I actually like the original one that  was set. I thought this style looked very good.  

But one thing I can also do is I could go through  and I could customize to my heart's content,  

or I could simply try my luck by having Sway  remix it on my behalf. So I'm going to click on  

remix and let's see what happens. Click on remix  again and then Sway will simply go ahead and try  

different color and design combinations. But I  liked what I had originally, so I'll undo it and  

go back to what I had. The nice thing within Sway  is you can experiment and you could see if you  

find a design or look that you like. Now, the  one thing I love about Sway is it's so easy to  

come up with nice designs. All you need to do  is get your content in and then Sway will take  

care of making sure that you have a design that  looks amazing. I'm going to close out the styles  

because I'm satisfied with the style that appears  here, and I want to show a few of the different  

options that you have here. And here in the bottom  right-hand corner, I see this icon. This allows me  

to navigate throughout my Sway. And here, each one  of the headings corresponds with a chapter. So if  

I click here, this will navigate to that section  in my Sway so I can very quickly navigate around.  

Up here in the top right-hand corner, I can play  the Sway. And by playing the Sway, this is what  

the Sway will look like to different visitors  who I share the link with. So here, if let's  

say I share this with someone, they can scroll  through and they'll see what the Sway looks like.  

So here you see the different animations where  the video pops up or here my photos fly in. So  

you get a sense of how the Sway looks and what the  different animations look like. To get back to the  

edit view, I'm going to click on edit up here. And  what good would it be to create a Sway if I didn't  

share it with others? And right up here in the top  right-hand corner, I have the ability to share my  

Sway. And if I click on that, I could copy a link  so people could view it. Let's say I want to bring  

people in and let them edit it. I could also let  them edit it. I've included a link to the Sway in  

the description if you want to see what it looks  like on your device. I could even create a visual  

link. And here's what that looks like. It has  more of a thumbnail view with the top heading,  

and I could copy this and paste that, let's say,  into an email message. If I go back to share,  

I could also share on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.  I could even get an embed code if I want to, say,  

put it on a website. And lastly, if I click on the  ellipses over here in the top right-hand corner,  

I could go back to my Sways. I could create new.  I could even duplicate this Sway if, let's say,  

I want to start another Sway using this as a base.  And then I have a few other settings as I look  

down here. One of the things that's nice about  Sway is the Sway works very well on different  

screen sizes. So here I'm back in the view Sway  in the play mode. Here if I take my browser  

window and I adjust the width of the window, here  you'll see that regardless of my window's size,  

the Sway looks very nice. So even on a phone  display, it's going to be a very nice view. These  

are the core capabilities of Sway. What I want to  show is not only can you create Sway from the Sway  

homepage, but here if I jump over into Microsoft  Word and I go to file, there's a new option within  

the file menu called transform. And what I can  do is let's say I have an existing Word document;  

I could very quickly transform it into a  web page, and I could choose the style.  

Essentially what this is doing is this is taking  your Word document and converting it into a Sway.  

Now that I've worked on my Sway, what's happened  is I'm back here on the Sway homepage, and here  

I see the Sway that I just created shows up under  the edited pivot. What's nice about Sway is as I'm  

working on it, all of it is just automatically  saved. I don't have to go to file, save or save  

as. It's simply created in the cloud and every  single edit is automatically saved for me.  

And to get back to my Sway, all I need to do is  click on it here. All right, well that was a quick  

example of how you could both get and then also  use Microsoft Sway to create some stunning and  

beautiful interactive web pages. If you found this  video helpful and you now know how to create your  

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All right, well that's all I had for you  today and I hope to see you next time. Bye.