About

Courtney - Head of Growth

Head of Growth Courtney has been working in PowerPoint for 23 years – initially as a consultant at Accenture, then as a freelance strategy consultant and most recently as the Head of Growth for PPT Productivity. Courtney nominates PPT Productivity's Sticky Notes feature as her favourite.

Consulting Toolkit

How to Create Org Charts in PowerPoint

Courtney

September 16, 2023

Organizational charts are useful tools for visualizing the hierarchy and structure of an organization. They can help you to communicate roles, responsibilities, and relationships among team members, ...

Getting Started

Getting started with PPT Productivity add-in for PowerPoint

Courtney

September 8, 2023

Welcome to PPT Productivity add-in for PowerPoint! This page provides a step by step guide for getting started with PPT Productivity's Power Tools. Power Tools is PPT Productivity's full featured ...

PowerPoint How To

How to Strikethrough Text in PowerPoint

Courtney

May 5, 2023

Strikethrough text is a useful feature in PowerPoint to cross out or create a line through text. Applying a strikethrough to text can be an effective way to indicate that specific text has been ...

PowerPoint How To

How to create a Canva presentation and edit in PowerPoint

Courtney

April 28, 2023

So maybe you've heard about Canva and want to check out the templates, but feel overwhelmed at the prospect of learning how to use a new tool? Wondering can you convert Canva to PowerPoint? Great news ...

PowerPoint How To

How to do Academic Reference MLA and APA Citations in PowerPoint

Courtney

April 15, 2023

PowerPoint presentations are a common way of sharing information and ideas in academic settings. When you use information from other sources in academic slides, you need to cite them appropriately to ...

PowerPoint How To

How to insert Company Logos in PowerPoint Slides

Courtney

January 16, 2023

Company logos are the visual representation of a brand, encapsulating its identity and creating recognition among audiences. Whether you want to insert your company logo to a PowerPoint slide, or the ...

New Features

How to copy and paste formatting in PowerPoint

Courtney

October 21, 2022

Almost everyone knows about Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V to copy and paste in PowerPoint. But did you know that you can also copy and paste formatting in PowerPoint, to quickly polish your presentations. In ...

Consulting Toolkit

Looking for Deloitte Productivity PowerPoint tools?

Courtney

August 31, 2022

Are you looking for the Deloitte Productivity Toolbar for PowerPoint? PPT Productivity is working with one of the Deloitte businesses, so Deloitte users of PPT Productivity will see the PPT ...

PowerPoint How To

How to insert PDF into PowerPoint - 3 different ways

Courtney

August 26, 2022

Wondering can I insert a pdf into PowerPoint? There are three ways you can insert a PDF into your PowerPoint presentation - you can use the PowerPoint insert object feature, you can screenshot the PDF ...

Getting Started

Can I use PPT Productivity on a Mac?

Courtney

March 15, 2022

PPT Productivity PowerPoint Plugin is working on a version of PPT Productivity that will be compatible with PowerPoint for Mac. But we have great news - you can already use the PC version of PPT ...

PowerPoint How To

How to add superscript, subscript, symbols, emojis in PowerPoint

Courtney

February 22, 2022

This post is a step by step guide for adding special character formatting or symbols to your PowerPoint presentation. What is superscript vs subscript? Superscript is a font formatting to offset ...

Consulting Toolkit

Missing the Bain Toolbox for PowerPoint?

Courtney

February 17, 2022

Are you a Bain Alumni, missing the features of the Bain Toolbox for PowerPoint? Maybe you moved to Private Equity and find you're churning out just as many slides as when you were in consulting, but ...