PPT Productivity Format Toolbar update

Format Toolbar for PowerPoint: 19 new buttons + full configurability

PPT Productivity PowerPoint add-in's Format Toolbar has had an update! You now have more control over the layout of the Format Toolbar and where it docks on your screen. New features plus clearer groupings of existing features, to further boost your productivity in PowerPoint!

What's new on PPT Productivity Format Toolbar for PowerPoint?

Let’s take a tour of PPT Productivity's updated PowerPoint Format Toolbar, starting with the new features:

• Chevron and Block Arrows: Inserts Block Arrows and Chevrons on your PowerPoint slide in your default color. Inserted chevrons auto align in sequence with the last one selected. If you update the color of a block arrows or chevron added to your screen, subsequent chevrons will automatically recolor to match. You can also use preformatted Chevron slide layouts from the Slide Library Chevrons gallery. If you add extra Chevrons to a Slide Library Chevrons layout, the newly added Chevrons will be inserted on your slide with formatting to match the existing chevrons.
• Right Triangle: Insert a large right facing triangle in the center of your PowerPoint slide - great for representing transitions, comparing points between two text boxes or making recommendations.
• Send backwards, bring forwards: sends your shape just one layer backwards or forwards, rather than sending to the first or last position on the slide (this is a standard PowerPoint feature included on the toolbar for easy access).
• Set horizontal and vertical gaps: specify a distance between shapes so that groups of shapes are equal distance from the next. This means you can also keep the distance consistent across PowerPoint slides. Separate features for setting horizontal gaps or vertical gaps The feature provides an option so you can either move the shapes to accommodate the spacing, or resize the shapes to create the gaps but with existing bounds.
• Hand drawn circles: available in Red, Green, Yellow and Orange from a dropdown menu (but can also be recolored - they behave as shapes once pasted to your slide!). The hand drawn circles for PowerPoint are great for drawing attention to an item on the slide, e.g. for emphasis or correction.
• Additional shapes: A greater selection of standard shapes have been added to the Format Toolbar - giving you one click access to the most popular PowerPoint shapes. Newly added shapes include round edge square, callouts, down arrow, elbow connectors, elbow connectors with arrow and the right brace.

Updates to existing features on PPT Productivity's PowerPoint Format Toolbar

We've also made updates to existing PPT Productivity add-in for PowerPoint features:

• Harvey Balls: You can now Insert Harvey Balls for PowerPoint from the Format Toolbar, in addition to the PPT Productivity top ribbon. Easily recolor Harvey Balls with the Color Toolbar. If you update the percentage represented by the Harvey Ball (eg update a Harvey Ball from 1/4 to 1/2 on your slide), the Harvey Ball will retain the most recently selected color.
• Sticky Note: You can now insert Sticky Notes to PowerPoint from the Format Toolbar, in addition to the PPT Productivity top ribbon. The last Sticky Note color used will be remembered for easy one-click reuse, or use the drop down to access other Sticky Note colors.
• Stamps: Now you can add Stamps to PowerPoint slides from the Format Toolbar, as well as from the PPT Productivity ribbon. The last Stamp used will be remembered for easy one-click reuse, or use the drop down to access other Stamps.
• Callouts: Quickly add Callouts to PowerPoint slides using the Format Toolbar. Callouts are a standard PowerPoint feature, but included here for easy access. The last Callout style used will be remembered for speedy reuse, or use the dropdown selection to choose an alternate callout style.

The Format Toolbar for PowerPoint is now configurable - move or dock the toolbar and change order of groups

The layout of the Format Toolbar has also been improved. Enhancements to the layout of the Format Toolbar include:

• Colorize your groups to easily identify groups of common functions. You can toggle colorization on or off if you prefer the 'classic' look or find colors distracting.
• Re-order feature group positions on the toolbar to better suit your preferences (eg move your most used feature groups higher and less frequently used groups lower).
• Dock the toolbar on the right, left, top or bottom of your PowerPoint screen.
• Right click any feature on the toolbar to access to Help information for the feature and to view PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts assigned to features.
• Access the settings directly from the Toolbar (in addition to the contextual right-click menu for each feature)
• Override the default feature button icon size. Choose from auto, small, medium, large or extra large icons to suit your monitor setup. Default size is 'auto'.

Many of these added features were requested by customers. PPT Productivity is a timesaving add-in for PowerPoint. We hope these updates and all the existing features help to make you even more productive in PowerPoint. If you have any any feature requests you would like us to add to the roadmap or feedback on the new features, please contact us.