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.

PowerPoint How To

How to use an image as background of a PowerPoint slide

Lee-Ann Lee-Ann

October 22, 2020

Using an image as the background of your slide can add impact to your message. It’s possible to do this by adding the image to the slide and using ‘send to back’, but there is a better way. This ...

Getting Started

How to paste data to PowerPoint destination table format?

Lee-Ann Lee-Ann

October 16, 2020

How can I Paste data into PowerPoint and automatically apply the destination table format? PPT Productivity enables you to paste data from Excel (or other sources) and retain the table formatting set ...

Getting Started

Harvey Balls PowerPoint - Easily add Harvey Balls

Lee-Ann Lee-Ann

October 1, 2020

How to create Harvey balls in PowerPoint? PPT Productivity PowerPoint add-in's Harvey Ball feature lets you add Harvey ball icons to PowerPoint slides in a single click! PPT Productivity is a ...

Getting Started

How to protect / lock a PowerPoint presentation?

Lee-Ann Lee-Ann

September 28, 2020

Unless you protect your PowerPoint document, anyone with access to the .pptx file can open, copy and edit the contents. Here's a guide to how you can protect/ lock your PowerPoint presentations. This ...

PowerPoint How To

How can I remove personal information from PowerPoint documents?

Lee-Ann Lee-Ann

September 25, 2020

When you create or even edit a presentation, PowerPoint automatically adds selected personal data of the user to the file. If you plan to share your presentation externally (particularly via a public ...

PowerPoint How To

How can I share a PowerPoint presentation with custom fonts?

Lee-Ann Lee-Ann

September 17, 2020

Can I share a PowerPoint Presentation containing customized fonts with others who do not have the font installed on their computer? This post is part of our hints and tips for standard PowerPoint ...

New Features

Can I lock a shape, image or object in PowerPoint? Yes!

Lee-Ann Lee-Ann

September 12, 2020

With PPT Productivity add-in for PowerPoint you can now lock shapes, images or other objects in PowerPoint! Unlocking shapes locked using PPT Productivity plugin is only possible using PPT ...

New Features

Can I unlock a locked shape in PowerPoint? Yes!

Lee-Ann Lee-Ann

September 11, 2020

How to unlock shapes that have been locked in PowerPoint? Shapes that have been locked in your PowerPoint presentation can be unlocked by using PPT Productivity Power Tools. Simply select the ...

PowerPoint How To

How to reduce file size of PowerPoint Presentations?

Lee-Ann Lee-Ann

September 4, 2020

You’ve spent hours creating an awesome presentation, including lots of well thought-out images and graphics. But when you try and share your file via email, you realize it’s too large to be ...

New Features

Color Toolbar - Reveal RGB values of colors in PowerPoint

Lee-Ann Lee-Ann

September 1, 2020

We’ve enhanced the PPT Productivity Color Toolbar! Hover over any color on the toolbar and the color’s name and RGB attributes now display in a mouseover tip. Helpful when working with subtle color ...

New Features

Redo or repeat last PowerPoint action with keyboard shortcuts

Lee-Ann Lee-Ann

August 14, 2020

You can use the F4 or Ctrl+Y PowerPoint shortcuts to redo or repeat the last action you performed. Standard PowerPoint has the redo and repeat feature. PPT Productivity has now added the redo / repeat ...

PowerPoint How To

Where to find illustrations icons & clip art for PowerPoint

Lee-Ann Lee-Ann

August 11, 2020

Looking for presentation clip art in PowerPoint? Wondering where Clip art has gone? Trying to find the PowerPoint icons library? Microsoft Clip art feature in its original format was removed from ...