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.

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 ...

Consulting Toolkit

Looking for a Templafy alternative PowerPoint add-in?

Courtney

January 20, 2022

Need a PowerPoint add-in to boost the efficiency of your team? Looking for a PowerPoint Slide Library solution to make reuse easy? Want all the benefit of easy formatting and reuse, without needing ...

Getting Started

Can I use Windows 365 to run PPT Productivity on a Mac?

Courtney

January 16, 2022

Microsoft have recently released Windows 365, which is a new virtual machine in the cloud solution. Windows 365 literally lets you run a virtual PC in the cloud - which means you can run the virtual ...

PowerPoint How To

How To Do a Voiceover on PowerPoint?

Courtney

December 12, 2021

This Hints and Tips post provides a step-by-step guide on how to do a voiceover in PowerPoint. Did you know that PowerPoint has a voiceover or narration feature? PowerPoint's Record feature allows you ...

Consulting Toolkit

Missing the BCG PowerPoint Tools?

Courtney

November 30, 2021

Are you a BCG Alumni, missing the features of the BCG PowerPoint toolbar? Perhaps you transitioned to industry to run a strategy team and need to boost the polish of your team's slides? Or moved to PE ...

PowerPoint How To

How To Embed A Video in PowerPoint?

Courtney

November 7, 2021

Are you trying to work out how to insert video in PowerPoint presentations? This article is a step by step guide, including options for embedding videos either from your device or from an online ...

New Features

PowerPoint Issue Trees and Frameworks - Downloadable Templates

Courtney

August 5, 2021

PPT Productivity add-in for PowerPoint makes it easy to save and reuse slides with the Slide Library feature. The Slide Library lets you save and reuse slides from your personal library or for a team ...

New Features

PPT Productivity Format Toolbar update

Courtney

June 21, 2021

Format Toolbar for PowerPoint: 19 new buttons + full configurability PPT Productivity PowerPoint add-in's Format Toolbar has had an update! You now have more control over the layout of the Format ...

PowerPoint How To

How to add chevrons in PowerPoint?

Courtney

June 7, 2021

It's easy to add chevrons to PowerPoint slides with PPT Productivity addin! With our latest release, adding pentagons aka block arrows and chevrons to slides is a one-click process. Here is a step by ...

Getting Started

Downloadable PowerPoint Elements for Slide Library

Courtney

May 5, 2021

PPT Productivity's Slide Library feature makes it easy to save and reuse your favorite slides and shapes for easy reuse. The Slide Library toolbar displays to the right of your PowerPoint screen and ...

New Features

Can I insert slide totals with slide numbers in PowerPoint? Yes!

Courtney

April 7, 2021

PPT Productivity add-in recently released our Manage Slide Numbering feature for PowerPoint. Standard PowerPoint does not have a feature to dynamically display the total number of slides (aka a slide ...