Life After the Green Dot: The Best PowerPoint Add-in for Deloitte Alumni

Have you moved on from Deloitte? You might not miss the late nights or the airport lounges, but you're probably missing the PowerPoint tools.

When you land in a new role without those custom tools, the drop in efficiency can be frustrating. Suddenly, you're manually aligning boxes, searching for Harvey Balls, and needing to create new slides from scratch.

If you're a Deloitte Alum looking to reclaim your consulting speed, PPT Productivity PowerPoint add-in is the solution. Here is why so many former D-network consultants are making the switch.

1. Reclaim Your Harvey Balls and Status Indicators

Native PowerPoint makes inserting Harvey Balls a slow process of inserting symbols, or manually editing pie charts.

The Solution: PPT Productivity’s Harvey Ball Generator.
We offer the most robust Harvey Ball tool on the market. You can:

• Insert harvey balls to PowerPoint slides with a single click from the ribbon.
• Toggle Harvey ball fill from empty to full (and every increment in between) just by clicking the feature button (or use shortcut keys!).
• Easily recolor harvey balls to match your brand/ template colors, ensuring your new company’s status reports look just as professional as the ones you built at the firm.

PPT Productivity also has features to quickly add status indicators (directional arrows, plus/ minus symbols, ticks, check marks, crosses), chevrons aka block arrows, status stamps (eg DRAFT, FOR REVIEW, CONFIDENTIAL), sticky notes for reviewing

2. Formatting Macros that Match Your Muscle Memory

One of the hardest parts of leaving the firm is losing the keyboard shortcuts you spent years memorizing. You shouldn’t have to learn a new way to work.

The Solution: Customizable Shortcut Keys.
PPT Productivity is unique because it adapts to you.

• Remap Keys: If you were used to a specific keystroke for "Align Left" or "Resize to Match," you can configure PPT Productivity to use those exact same keys.
• Searchable Shortcuts: PPT Productivity has over 800+ commands that can be assigned to hotkeys, allowing you to build a workflow that feels exactly like your old firm-specific ribbon.

3. A Timesaver Library Toolbar on Your Desktop

At Deloitte, depending on when you left you had access to the Deloitte Timesaver, the Deloitte Gallery, or other repositories of slide assets, icons, and frameworks ready to reuse in PowerPoint. Great news - with PPT Productivity, you don't need to start from scratch.

The Solution: PPT Productivity's Slide Library Toolbar for PowerPoint
Think of this as your personal asset library.

• Downloadable Assets: Get instant access to thousands of pre-built PowerPoint slides, maps, flags and objects ready for reuse, including SWOT analyses, project roadmaps, timelines and other consulting frameworks.
• Save Your Own: As you build new material in your new role, you can save your best PowerPoint slides, team bios, and legal disclaimers to the Slide Library Toolbar for instant reuse later. Note that the Slide Library feature either saves to your local machine or to a share drive that you choose, so you can access your library even when working offline.
• Share a Team Slide Library: You can also use the Slide Library feature as a Team Slide Library - sharing a library with team members so that team members all have access to a common library of slides and shapes

4. Perfect Alignment and "Magic" format painter

Native PowerPoint alignment features are clunky (e.g. it takes 3+ clicks to align and distribute). PPT Productivity puts these tools in easy reach on the Format Toolbar and accessible via custom shortcut keys.

• Format Toolbar: PPT Productivity's Format Toolbar puts timesaving alignment and formatting features in easy reach. Buttons to make same width + height, to nudge shapes together or apart, space equally, align (plus lots of other options!)
• Magic Format Painter: Unlike the standard paintbrush, PPT Productivity's Magic Format Painter lets you "pick up" specific dimensions of an object in PowerPoint and apply them to other objects. Plus there are preset buttons to copy and paste the formatting of:
  • table formatting,
  • text formatting,
  • chart formatting
  • shapes formatting
  • chevron formatting (to match the angles) and
  • animations

5. Agenda Wizard for Agendas, Contents and Divider slides

Managing the Agenda/ Table of Contents and section dividers in a PowerPoint deck manually is a waste of time.

The Solution: PPT Productivity's Agenda Wizard
Create a dynamic agenda in PowerPoint that automatically updates page numbers and section titles. Simply click to sync after you move your slides around. The Agenda Wizard feature lets you add the structure and rigor of a Big 4 presentation, without the manual administrative effort. The Agenda Wizard lets you customize the layout of your Agenda and Divider slides.

Summary: The Tool for High-Performance Alumni

You left the firm, but you haven't lost your standards. You don't need to compromise on your tools.

PPT Productivity is designed by consultants, for consultants. It fills the gap left by your internal firm tools, helping you impress your new stakeholders with the speed and polish they didn't know was possible.

Ready to get your speed back?
Download the free 30-day trial today and see why Deloitte Alumni are making PPT Productivity their default toolkit.