Add Stamps, Stickers and Sticky Notes in PowerPoint | PPT Productivity

If you’re searching for how to add stamps, stickers, or sticky notes to PowerPoint slides, this guide is for you. Many consulting and corporate teams use PowerPoint status stamps like “WIP”, “Please Fix”, or “Confidential” to improve slide review workflows. PPT Productivity add-in makes this fast and easy.

What are PowerPoint stamps and stickers?

PowerPoint status stamps (also known as status stickers) are colored textboxes added to PowerPoint slides to denote status or requests — like:

• 🟡 WIP (Work in Progress)
• 🔴 Pls Fix (Please Fix - the MVP of status stamps in Consulting!!)
• 🔐 Confidential

Sticky notes, on the other hand, function like digital Post It notes. They're perfect for writing comments, asking questions, feedback about changes necessary or even follow up 'to do' reminders that the writer can add.

PowerPoint has a comments feature that it promotes as a review tool. But the Comments feature is harder to review because comments are not added to the slides - they are displayed in a separate panel, with no ability to point to specific items on the slide.

How to add sticky notes in PowerPoint

PPT Productivity add-in for PowerPoint's sticky notes feature is great for annotating update requests and making comments e.g. about what needs to be updated on a slide.  The date and reviewer /editor initials are automatically added to the sticky note.

Customizing PowerPoint Sticky Notes

The Sticky Notes for PowerPoint feature lets you customize the color of the sticky notes (e.g. to allocate each reviewer a specific different color note). You can also have 6 sticky note colors set up.

You can also nominate your preferred location of Sticky Notes (so they are added by default to either the top left or top right of your slides). There is an option to add callout lines - useful to annotate specific updates on your PowerPoint slides.

How to add status stamps to PowerPoint slides

PPT Productivity add-in for PowerPoint's stamps feature lets you add status status stamps to PowerPoint slides. For example:

• Denote specific slides as Work in Progress with a WIP stamp
• Add a fast action request by creating a Please Fix (aka a Pls Fix ) PowerPoint status stamp for reviews
• Mark every slide in your presentation as Confidential before finalizing by selecting all slides (Ctrl+A) and clicking the Confidential Stamp
• Options are endless - you can customize the wording of all stamps!

Customizing PowerPoint status stamps

Stamps are customizable to suit your company standards or personal preferences. Configure the words, language, colors, and even position on the slide of each status stamp for PowerPoint. You can easily share stamp configurations with colleagues via email, or your company’s IT team can provide a stamp configuration via a central deployment for team or company roll-out.

Clicking each status stamp button on the PowerPoint Ribbon toggles the stamp on and off for the slide you are on. If you don't want any stamps showing in the final version of your deck, you can quickly remove all stamps in your PowerPoint presentation once final review is complete with the 'remove all stamps' button. Note that if you want to use the confidential stamps in your final deck, either add them last or just manually delete any other unwanted stamps.

Availability of Status Stamps and Sticky Notes

The Status Stamps features are included in every PPT Productivity plan — Basic, Plus, and Power Tools. Sticky Notes are available only in PPT Productivity PowerTools.

Whether you're working solo or collaborating with a global team, these tools can streamline reviews in PowerPoint.

Frequently asked questions about PowerPoint stamps

• Can I share custom PowerPoint stamps with my team? Yes - once you set up your stamps, you can export your PPT Productivity settings to share your stamps (and other settings) with your team
• How do I remove stamps before sharing a deck? You can remove all stamps in a single click before finalizing your PowerPoint Presentation, just click the 'delete all stamps' button.

Try it out: PowerPoint stamps and sticky notes in action

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