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Hints and Tips

Paste data into PowerPoint with destination table format

Lee-Ann

Oct 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 ...

Hints and Tips

Insert Harvey Balls in PowerPoint Easily!

Lee-Ann

Oct 1, 2020

How do you create Harvey balls in PowerPoint? It's easy with PPT Productivity. PPT Productivity add-in for PowerPoint has a Harvey Ball icon feature - add Harvey balls to your PowerPoint slides in ...

Hints and Tips

How to protect / lock a PowerPoint presentation?

Lee-Ann

Sep 28, 2020

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

Hints and Tips

How can I remove personal information from PowerPoint documents?

Lee-Ann

Sep 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 ...

Feature Update

Missing the McKinsey PowerPoint Shortcuts?

Lee-Ann

Sep 22, 2020

Are you a McKinsey Alumni who misses the McKinsey PowerPoint keyboard shortcuts? PPT Productivity now has a preconfigured set of Shortcut keys to match the McKinsey Shortcuts. PPT Productivity has ...

Hints and Tips

How can I share a PowerPoint presentation with custom fonts?

Lee-Ann

Sep 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 ...

Feature Update

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

Lee-Ann

Sep 12, 2020

With PPT Productivity you can now lock shapes, images or other objects in PowerPoint! Standard PowerPoint does not offer this feature. PPT Productivity is a time saving add-in for PowerPoint with ...

Feature Update

Can I unlock a locked shape in PowerPoint? Yes!

Lee-Ann

Sep 11, 2020

Can I unlock shapes that have been locked in PowerPoint? Shapes that have been locked in your PowerPoint presentation can be unlocked easily if you are using PPT Productivity Power Tools. Simply ...

Hints and Tips

How to reduce file size of PowerPoint Presentations?

Lee-Ann

Sep 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 ...

Feature Update

Color Toolbar - Reveal RGB values of colors in PowerPoint

Lee-Ann

Sep 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 ...

New PowerPoint Features

Need a Beautifying/ Proofing tool for PowerPoint?

Lee-Ann

Aug 28, 2020

We are excited to let you know we are currently working on Beautifying/ Proofing tools, which will be added to our Power Tools function set. A number of customers have been ...

Feature Update

Redo or repeat last PowerPoint action with keyboard shortcuts

Lee-Ann

Aug 14, 2020

You can use the F4 or Ctrl+Y keyboard 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 / ...