Missing SlideFox? The Best PowerPoint Add-in for EY-Parthenon Alumni

Did you recently move on from EY-P? You might not miss the all-nighters or the relentless QC passes at midnight - but there's a good chance you are missing the SlideFox PowerPoint toolbar.

If you spent any time at EY-P, you know exactly what we're talking about. SlideFox was your go to for making PowerPoint decks easier, with features for formatting, alignment, agenda slides, quality checks - so you could stay focused on the analysis and the story. And then, on your last day, you handed in your laptop and said goodbye to all of it.

The good news? PPT Productivity can fill the gap!

PPT Productivity Power Tools is a PowerPoint add-in built specifically for people like you: former consultants who want to make it easier to create polished PowerPoint decks. Here's how PPT Productivity stacks up against what you've been missing. We've included a breakdown of the core feature areas, and how PPT Productivity addresses each one.

One-Click Formatting and Alignment

At EY-P, getting shapes perfectly aligned or uniformly sized was a matter of a click or two. And in 'vanilla' PowerPoint, it's a frustrating sequence of menus, dialogs, and manual adjustments.

PPT Productivity's Format Toolbar brings all of those controls together in one place. You can align shapes, make them the same height and width, set precise gaps between objects, distribute elements evenly, swap positions and more. The Arrange and Align features include the ability to align to the first selected shape (a favorite among our customers), set exact horizontal and vertical gaps, and group objects by row or column.

For sizing and editing, the Edit Shapes tools let you resize incrementally, stretch shapes to fill gaps, slice shapes into multiple pieces, and copy-paste position and size across objects with a single click.

Brand-Compliant Color Palettes and Templates

Staying on-brand under time pressure is one of the things SlideFox made genuinely easy - your template colors were always accessible, your fonts were consistent, and the whole team was working from the same palette.

PPT Productivity's Color Toolbar works the same way. It automatically loads the theme colors from whatever presentation you're working in, so you always have your current template's colors at your fingertips. You can also display tints/ shades for your template colors, create and share custom color palettes across your team, view exact RGB values for any color on your slide, and quickly recolor charts.

PPT Productivity's Manage Templates feature gives you a central place to set your default PowerPoint template and view all of your other templates - handy if you're working across multiple clients or brands.

Slide and Asset Libraries for Quick Content Reuse

One of the most-missed features among EY-P alumni is the asset library - the ability to quickly pull in pre-built slides, frameworks, and shapes without digging through old decks.

PPT Productivity's Slide Library lets you save and reuse individual shapes, groups, full slides, or entire presentations. Everything is searchable, so you can find what you need without scrolling endlessly. You can also search the library using shortcut keys, keeping your hands on the keyboard.

Better still, PPT Productivity includes access to 2,000+ downloadable slide layouts, templates, shapes, and icons - including issue trees, org charts, value chains, maps, and resizable/recolorable icons - all included in the Power Tools license at no extra cost and available during the free trial.

Running a team? The Slide Library for Teams lets you create shared corporate galleries that all team members can access and contribute to - keeping your assets consistent and your team working from the same source of truth. Libraries can be synced with Dropbox, Box, or OneDrive.

Agenda and Section Builders

Building an agenda slide at EY-P was something SlideFox made straightforward - add your sections, generate the flysheets, and you were done. Updating it when the deck changed? Also not a drama.

PPT Productivity's Agenda Wizard handles all of this. Create agenda or table of contents slides with divider (flysheet) slides in a few clicks. When you rearrange slides or rename sections, the agenda updates automatically. You can use PowerPoint sections or not - the Agenda Wizard works either way. Agenda slides are also hyperlinked for easy navigation during client presentations.

Quality Checks and Formatting Consistency

The quality check capability in SlideFox made it possible to find rogue fonts, a misaligned element, or an inconsistent line weight before the deck went out the door.

PPT Productivity's Proofing Tools are built for exactly this. Run a zero-defects review across your entire presentation using Proofing Tools to catch:

• Font inconsistencies - find and fix any fonts that aren't your template fonts, including in the Slide Master
• Line and border issues - check and correct line weights and outlines for consistency
• Formatting problems - review margins, bullet indents, cell padding and more, with auto-correct options
• Punctuation and language - check for common punctuation errors across all slides
• Layout issues - check for unwanted transitions, animations, or layout mismatches
• Confidential content - scan for content that shouldn't be in a client-ready file
• File size - compress images and reduce file bloat before sharing
• Duplicate slide masters - identify and remove multiple masters that can cause formatting chaos

Bulk Updates for Common Tasks

SlideFox made it easy to apply changes across an entire deck in one go - updating fonts, fixing labels, standardizing elements - without having to touch every slide manually.

PPT Productivity has you covered here too. The Change Fonts feature lets you find and replace fonts across all slides (including the Slide Master, Notes, and Handouts) with a single action. The Set Proofing Language feature applies a language setting across the whole presentation in seconds - a small thing that saves a lot of pain. The Select Shapes by Attribute feature lets you select all shapes on a slide that share the same color, font, size, or alignment - making bulk updates fast and precise.

Customizable Shortcut Keys

If your muscle memory is still firing off SlideFox shortcuts that no longer work, you'll appreciate PPT Productivity's Customizable Shortcut Keys. You can assign shortcut keys to over 200 functions, reassign existing ones, and even build a layout that mirrors what you were used to at EY-P.

There's also a built-in Shortcut Key Trainer to help you (or your team) build new habits quickly, and a searchable shortcuts list so you can find the function you need without digging through menus.

Tools for Team Reviews

Anyone who's worked in consulting knows that slides don't just get built - they get reviewed, commented on, revised, sent out for more comments, and revised again. SlideFox helped make that process smoother.

PPT Productivity's team review features include:

• Status Stamps - add customizable stamps to slides (the default options are WIP, Draft, Confidential, On Hold, Out of Date, Updated, Remove)
• Sticky Notes - add reviewers' notes directly on slides without affecting the presentation layout, then navigate quickly between review notes using find next sticky (and delete stickies in a single click once you're finished)
• Camouflage Mode - hide the background logos and branding on your PowerPoint slides when reviewing in a public place (toggle to hide and toggle again to show)
• Save, Print, or Email Selected Slides - extract specific slides as PPT or PDF and send them directly from within PowerPoint

Harvey Balls, Status Indicators, and Consulting Shapes

The small stuff matters when you're building consulting slides. Harvey Balls, status indicators (RAG arrows, ticks, and crosses), chevrons for process flows and value chains.

PPT Productivity has all of these. Harvey Balls behave like native shapes - resizable, recolorable, and embeddable in tables. Status indicators (red-amber-green by default, but fully customizable) also embed in tables. Chevrons for process flows and value chains insert in a click. And Paragraph Styles let you save and reapply your preferred bullet and text formats, so your body copy is always consistent.

Start Your Free Trial - No Credit Card Required

PPT Productivity offers a genuine 30-day free trial - no credit card details required. You'll get access to the full Power Tools feature set, including the downloadable slide and icon library, so you can properly put it through its paces.

If you'd like a walkthrough first, book a free personalized demo with one of the PPT Productivity team.

PPT Productivity is available for PowerPoint on Windows. Start your free trial here.

PPT Productivity Power Tools is built by a team of former management consultants from BCG and Accenture, with extensive input from alumni of McKinsey, Bain, and other top firms. We know what it takes to build great slides at speed - because we've been there too.