Missing the BCG PowerPoint Tools?

Are you a BCG Alumni, missing the features of the BCG PowerPoint toolbar? PPT Productivity PowerPoint add-in has the features you've been missing from the BCG PowerPoint add-in plus more!

PPT Productivity add-in for PowerPoint is the best consulting PowerPoint Add-in, offering time saving benefits through shortcuts and easy reuse. With 200+ features and a free trial (no credit card details required to access trial), PPT Productivity can restore your productivity and help you boost your team's efficiency.

PPT Productivity was created by a team of BCG and Accenture Alums. Our founder Scott is a BCG alum who wrote many of the initial BCG PowerPoint macros aka the Cool macros and features during his time at BCG. 

Here's a quick overview video of some features we think you'll love!

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An overview of some of the many PPT Productivity features (note that all features are available in the free trial):

Slide Library for easy shape and slide reuse

PPT Productivity's Slide Library Toolbar lets you easily save and reuse your favorite slides, shapes, frameworks. Running a team? The Slide Library also lets you create shared galleries that all team members can access and use. The Slide Library is an easy way to increase consistency across your teams presentations, plus save time through quick reuse.

The Slide Library Toolbar is great for saving and reusing your own slides and shapes but you can also download 2000+ PowerPoint slide layouts, templates and shapes from the PPT Productivity website, including issue trees, org charts, value chains, arrows, maps, loads of icons (icons are resizable and recolorable) and more. These are all included in the Power Tools license at no extra cost and available for use in the free trial. If you've been missing the BCG PowerPoint Template and layouts, check out the Slide Layout libraries in the downloads.

More Shortcuts for PowerPoint - Extra shortcuts and remap existing

Customizable shortcut keys let you truly hack your productivity - change or add new shortcuts to create easy to remember shortcut keys for your most frequent tasks. PPT Productivity comes with 70 extra PowerPoint shortcuts pre mapped, and you can set up more shortcut keys (by simply right mouse clicking any feature).

Color Toolbar - easy access to template and custom colors

The Color Toolbar makes it easy to access presentation template colors, standard PowerPoint colors and custom colors in a toolbar that docks to the right of your slide. When you open a new deck, the Color toolbar automatically updates to show the template theme colors, making it easy to stay brand aligned. Plus you can use the eyedropper tool to save custom colors for quick color matching.

And if you use bolded text for emphasis in your slides, there is a feature on the ribbon to color the bolded text on your slide, or select multiple slides and recolor in a single click. The feature defaults to your template colors, with an option to select an alternate preferred color for emphasis (and it knows to exclude slide titles).

Agenda Wizard - Create + Update Table of Contents and Divider slides

PPT Productivity's Agenda Wizard lets you generate Agenda / Table of Contents/ divider slides in PowerPoint that dynamically update as you move content around. You can also quickly convert your tag lines or a summary slide to create the agenda items. Need to rearrange your slides? No problem, the agenda updates. Use PowerPoint sections or not = your choice, the Agenda Wizard works either way

Slide Builder Toolbar makes consulting slides easy

PPT Productivity's Slide Builder Toolbar with Design Guides and snappable elements feature makes it easy to quickly setup new consulting style PowerPoint slides. Simply turn on the guides, choose the number of columns and width of gutters, then click to add your textboxes and other elements. Text boxes snap to the Guides, and you can chose the alignment point for other elements (eg left, right or center of the column guides).

Proofing Tools features

PPT Productivity's Proofing Tools features make it easy to run a zero defects review, to quickly finalize your PowerPoint presentation. Features include:

• Formatting check: Features to check your formatting in PowerPoint and auto correct for consistency of things like line weights, table cell margins and more.
• Font check: Check fonts in your PowerPoint presentation to make sure they are the correct template fonts. The feature will show you instances of fonts so you can either auto correct or review each instance.
• Template check: review the slide templates used in your PowerPoint presentation and remove duplicate slide masters

In addition to the Proofing Tools, there are other features that make deck reviews easy, including: Status Stamps, Sticky Notes, a Camouflage mode (aka Airplane mode!) to conceal slide logos while reviewing in public places, and a No fly zone (aka text boundary).

Format Toolbar - gives quick access to format features (or via extra shortcut keys)

Features to speed up alignment, resizing, recoloring and most of them can be accessed via shortcut keys. The Format Toolbar also has Magic Format Painters for PowerPoint that let you copy and paint formatting for shapes, text, tables, charts and animations with the Format Painter features

Harvey Balls and Status Indicators

PPT Productivity has custom shortcut keys to add Harvey Balls and Status Indicators to your slide. Once added, you can also click a Harvey Ball and select a different % fill, to auto update the existing ball. Note that Harvey balls behave like shapes on your slide - you can easily recolor and resize them.

When you add Harvey Balls or Status indicators to PowerPoint tables they embed for easy formatting and alignment. Status indicators include trend arrows, traffic light balls, check marks and crosses and plus minus signs.

Value Chains and Process flows made easy with Chevrons feature

PPT Productivity's insert Chevrons feature lets you quickly add value chains, process flows or other arrow based graphics to your PowerPoint slides.

Set your preferred default Alignment point in PowerPoint

PPT Productivity makes it easy to customize your default PowerPoint alignment preference - e.g. choose to align to last selected shape, first selected shape or other options. Once you set your preferred default alignment, the PPT Productivity align features use this preference (eg align to top feature will align to top of first selected shape if you select first selected shape as your alignment preference).

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BCG Alumni VIP Extended PPT Productivity Trial Offer

We offer BCG Alumni an extended 60 day free trial (it's a genuine free trial - no credit card details required). To access this offer, download the 30 day trial and register using your current work email address, then contact us to request the BCG Alumni VIP offer. Our team will verify your alumni status via LinkedIn and add the bonus month to your trial. You can also book in a free personalized demo if you'd like a walkthrough.

Does PPT Productivity work on a Mac?

The team are working on a version for PowerPoint for Mac. Contact us if you'd like to be notified when it's available. In the interim - PPT Productivity runs on Macs if you use a virtual PC solution like Parallels Desktop for Mac. Learn more about using Parallels Desktop for Mac.

Purchase for Individuals or Teams

You can purchase a single PPT Productivity license, or licensing for a team or entire organization. Licensing is flexible - you can add users to your license key through a license year and pay pro-rata. Plus pricing is inclusive of training and support!