No furigana in PowerPoint?

A relative of mine used to do business in Japan, and he used PowerPoint a lot.

However, I was very surprised to find out that Microsoft PowerPoint does not allow for furigana!

Is this seen as a problem in Japan?

Also, does anyone have any good workarounds for this?

I’m a software developer, and I’ve been looking into possible solutions, but I don’t know anyone who would actually care about a solution being made, so I haven’t done anything yet 😅

2 comments
  1. Yup. There’s no dedicated ruby character phonetic guide insertion the way there is for Word. All Japanese tutorials involve shrunken kana on top of standard text.

  2. Which is why I use Keynote.

    Have you tried to cut and paste something from Word?

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