Looking at your Microsoft apps and unsure what some of them are? In today’s blog, we look at Microsoft Sway, a presentation and storytelling app which is gaining popularity in 2025.

What is Microsoft Sway?

Microsoft Sway is a storytelling and presentation creation app designed by Microsoft. It’s designed for creating presentations, newsletters and reports. The main difference between Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Sway is that in Sway, most of the formatting is done for you whereas in PowerPoint you have to do most of the formatting yourself.

What Can We Use Sway For?

Sway has a wide variety of uses within a business. Due to its similarities to PowerPoint, there are many crossovers in uses. Here are a handful of use cases.

• Create newsletters for your internal team or customers
• Sales Proposals
• Presentations and Meetings

What are the Key Benefits to Microsoft Sway?

The main benefit of Microsoft Sway is that it requires minimal design skills to create high quality and impressive presentations. This is mostly due to the drag and drop interface found within the application. This also means that the process of creating documents is much quicker. It’s also quick and easy to share files on Sway. This is because you can share the Sway document as a link or even embed it wherever you need. This saves clutter and unnecessary files.

For example, instead of sending your client a boring PDF, you could deliver a beautifully presented, interactive report with real-time updates and media.

How Can Sway Help Your Business?

Whether you’ve been tasked to create a newsletter, presentation or report, Sway allows you to create materials quickly and easily. Being cloud based also, you won’t need to think about where to save your files on your PC as it’s all link based. This also makes sharing of presentations easy.

Another big benefit of Sway is that it is free to use if your business has Microsoft 365. This means that there is no excuse to not give it a spin and try out Sway.

 

Three Cherries: How We Can Help Your Business with Microsoft Sway

If you’re unsure how to use Sway or what licencing you need to access the application, let us know. Our team of experts will be able to advise in terms of what you need to run Sway and whether it fits your business needs as well as other tools such as PowerPoint. At Three Cherries, we take the gamble out of business technology.