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.

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 ...

PowerPoint How To

How to change slide size in PowerPoint

Courtney

March 25, 2021

Trying to change slide size in PowerPoint presentations? PowerPoint lets you choose between a couple of standard slide sizes, plus a custom size option. In this hints and tips blog post we provide a ...

Consulting Toolkit

PowerPoint Toolbars - using the Quick Access Toolbar?

Courtney

May 6, 2020

If you're using the Quick access toolbar (QAT) you might be wondering "Can PPT Productivity Tools boost my productivity?" The short answer: Yes! If you're not familiar with the PowerPoint QAT - it's a ...

Consulting Toolkit

Alternative to Slideproof PowerPoint add-in?

Courtney

January 17, 2020

Are you looking for an alternative to Slideproof? Following Veodin Slideproof's acquisition/ integration by Templafy, we've had customers contacting us with license enquiries. PPT Productivity ...

Consulting Toolkit

What is a PowerPoint Add-in?

Courtney

December 19, 2018

Have you heard about PowerPoint add ins, aka PowerPoint Plugins, but not sure what they are? Interested to find out if there are ways to augment PowerPoint and get additional time-saving features? ...

Consulting Toolkit

Looking for a Consulting PowerPoint Toolbar?

Courtney

December 19, 2018

We created PPT Productivity Toolbars to make our lives easier. As consultants, we wanted time saving shortcuts to make it faster to create and to 'polish' slides. Ease of reuse was ...

PowerPoint How To

Where can I find Maps for PowerPoint?

Courtney

December 12, 2018

Did you know PowerPoint 365 has maps? PowerPoint World Maps are included in PowerPoint 365 - the maps are linked to Excel for easy customization and data overlays. But the PowerPoint maps are not easy ...

New Features

Are these the Cool Macros?

Courtney

December 9, 2016

PPT Productivity first made its appearance as 'Cool Macros' to consultants at Boston Consulting Group back in 2010. We are occasionally contacted by former BCG consultants, who are trying to track ...

PowerPoint How To

Great article on creating an engaging PowerPoint Presentation

Courtney

November 30, 2016

The 'Psychotactics' website has been recommended to us by an associate and it's a very interesting read! This article in particular grabbed my attention - an excellent overview of the key ...