How to save PPT Productivity custom settings for use on a new computer

With PPT Productivity PowerPoint add-in you can customize your settings according to your preferences. Generally, when your transfer to a new machine, you custom settings will be copied to your new computer when your user profile is transferred (typically the IT team in larger companies will 'image' your machine and then transfer the full image). However, if you are transferring to a new machine without the full image being copied across, you can save your settings and Personal Slide Library to import to a new machine or profile.

PPT Productivity does not save your Slide Library assets to any central servers - your saved slides stay either on your local machine or your nominated personal or company share drive (e.g. your company OneDrive).

How to save custom settings

In the following tutorial we will learn how to save your custom PPT Productivity settings in PowerPoint, via the PPT Productivity Settings menu. In the tutorial, we refer to saving the settings to be shared with team members. However you can follow the same steps to save the settings profile to import onto your new or re-imaged machine.

How to copy personalized Slide Library content to your new machine

To copy across your personalized Slide Libraries, navigate to C:\Users\Public\Documents\PPT Productivity\... and copy the Library folders from that location. Save these to a file location you have access from your new machine, or Zip the folder and email it to yourself. On your new machine, save the folders to the same location (C:\Users\Public\Documents\PPT Productivity\..). You will now have access to the same customized library content you had on your previous machine.

Learn more about the PPT Productivity features mentioned in the video from our website:

• Paragraph styles in PowerPoint: PPT Productivity's Paragraph styles make it easy to save font size, style, color, bullets and spacing for fast reuse. One team member can set up the preferred styles and then share the setup with all team members.
• PowerPoint Sticky notes: Make annotations on presentations for review with PPT Productivity's sticky notes - easy to see, action and remove before finalizing (better than PowerPoint's comments feature!). You can customize the colors of sticky notes and share the settings with your team.
• Status stamps: Status stamps for PowerPoint let you quickly mark your PowerPoint slides with status eg Draft, To Delete, Move to Appendix etc. You can customize the wording, color and positioning of status stamps and set up a common set of status stamps to share with your team.
• Color Toolbar: Make it easy to access your PowerPoint template theme color palette, standard PowerPoint colors and any custom colors with the Color Toolbar for PowerPoint. You can configure this for your organizations brand approved colors and share across team members to improve consistency and brand alignment of presentations. This includes the ability to load a custom extended color palette to PowerPoint (e.g. perfect for organizations with more than 6 colors in their branding guidelines).
• Slide Library: The Slide Library toolbar lets you set up a library of PowerPoint slides, images and shapes for person use or to share across a team. When you set up a PowerPoint Team Slide Library, it is entirely hosted within your organizations IT stack (using a share drive that your team members have access to). Best of all - you can set it up for your team without needing central IT support!

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