Google Docs, Sheets And Slides saw major updates last week, including a new iOS app for Sheets and the ability to directly edit Microsoft Office documents. One less obvious consequence of that shift? Quickoffice is being retired.

Today, Google took the wraps off its native Slides app for Android. Now you can create and edit slideshows even without an internet connection. There are also some new features for the rest of the Docs suite.

Google has added the option to create widescreen presentations to its Slides presentation webapp. Indeed, Google appears so enamoured of the idea it has now made 16:9 widescreen the default option for all new presentations.

You may not be a designer, but your presentations also don't need to scream I'm visually incompetent! GitHub developer Zach Holman -- self-proclaimed as "expressly not a designer" -- nonetheless made this beautiful presentation, and after wowing a whole lot of people, put together this slide design guide to help other non-designers get started down the road to attractive presentations.

Gone are the days when presentations are limited to poster boards you can haul into the conference room, and you've also got more options than the de facto office suite provides. Here's a look five of the most popular presentation creation tools.

Office 2010 is about to hit the streets next month, so the Microsoft team has been busy upgrading some of its official (and free) PowerPoint add-ons. We've already seen pptPlex upgraded, and now Producer -- an add-in that makes it easier to incorporate screencasts and video into PowerPoint decks -- has seen a similar upgrade.