About

Lee-Ann - Chief Productivity Officer

Chief Productivity Officer Lee-Ann has been working with PowerPoint for more than 18 years. Lee-Ann was initially an office manager and assistant, then a Production Specialist at Boston Consulting Group. Lee-Ann is now Chief Productivity Officer at PPT Productivity. Lee-Ann nominates PPT Productivity's Remember/Set Size & Position feature as one of her favourite.

Consulting Toolkit

How to create effective consulting slides using Minto Principles

Lee-Ann Lee-Ann

March 29, 2023

If you are a consultant (or aspire to be one!), you know how important it is to create clear and persuasive slides that communicate your ideas and recommendations to your clients. But how do you ...

Consulting Toolkit

How to Write Great PowerPoint Slides - Hints and Tips

Lee-Ann Lee-Ann

March 25, 2023

PowerPoint is a powerful tool for creating and delivering presentations. But how can you make sure your slides are clear, engaging, and effective? Our PPT Productivity team all previously worked in ...

PowerPoint How To

How to Fix Multiple Slide Masters in PowerPoint?

Lee-Ann Lee-Ann

March 23, 2023

In general, there is no need to have multiple Slide Masters in a PowerPoint presentation. Design teams will sometimes create PowerPoint Templates with multiple masters, but it's not best practice. ...

New Features

Need a Beautifying/ Proofing tool for PowerPoint?

Lee-Ann Lee-Ann

February 28, 2023

PPT Productivity's Beautifying/ Proofing tools are included in the Power Tools for PowerPoint product (and available in the free 30 day trial). The Proofing Tools for PowerPoint features make it ...

PowerPoint How To

Top 10 PowerPoint addins to boost your Productivity

Lee-Ann Lee-Ann

February 16, 2023

What is a PowerPoint addin? PowerPoint add-ins, or Plug ins, are small applications that you can install and use within PowerPoint to enhance its functionality and features. PPT Productivity is a ...

Getting Started

PPT Productivity Plus Tools Tutorial

Lee-Ann Lee-Ann

February 15, 2023

This tutorial steps you through the PPT Productivity Plus Tools PowerPoint add-in Ribbon. If you're searching for your company's specific training page, please contact our team for assistance. The ...

PowerPoint How To

How to organize PowerPoint Presentations with PowerPoint

Lee-Ann Lee-Ann

February 1, 2023

What are PowerPoint Sections? PowerPoint sections are section breaks which you can use to group slides within PowerPoint presentations. Sections can make organizing, navigating, and managing your ...

Getting Started

Tutorial - How to Create Custom Paragraph Styles for PowerPoint

Lee-Ann Lee-Ann

February 1, 2023

PPT Productivity PowerPoint add-in's Paragraph Styles features let you quickly save and reuse bullets in PowerPoint (and other text formats). Save up to 9 styles, making each style just a single click ...

Getting Started

PPT Productivity Basic Tools Tutorial

Lee-Ann Lee-Ann

January 15, 2023

This tutorial runs for approximately 15 minutes and steps you through the PPT Productivity Basic Tools Ribbon. If you're searching for your company's specific training page, please contact our team ...

PowerPoint How To

How to insert a Picture placeholder in PowerPoint?

Lee-Ann Lee-Ann

November 10, 2022

Standard PowerPoint Master Layouts come with built in image/ picture placeholders. If you want to create a PowerPoint slide with the standard layouts, simply open the standard default PowerPoint ...

PowerPoint How To

How to add a footnote in PowerPoint

Lee-Ann Lee-Ann

October 12, 2022

Footnotes are notes or annotations placed at the bottom of a slide or document, used to reference parts of the main text (generally using superscript numbers or symbols). Footnotes can be used to ...

Consulting Toolkit

Top 10 PowerPoint Hacks / Shortcuts used by strategy consultants

Lee-Ann Lee-Ann

September 13, 2022

The team at PPT Productivity came from strategy consulting firms. As management consultants, we're always looking for the quickest possible way to achieve the best results in PowerPoint, which is why ...