What is Basic Tools by PPT Productivity?

PPT Productivity makes time-saving PowerPoint add-ins that let you boost your productivity to save time creating, refining and reusing polished presentations.

PPT Productivity has three timesaving product options - Power Tools, Plus Tools and Basic Tools for PowerPoint. PowerTools is our most popular product as it includes all 200+ features. Basic Tools contains a subset of the features included in Power Tools - 20 timesaving features for those who use PowerPoint less frequently but want to save time on common tasks.

Here's a view of the Basic Tools PowerPoint ribbon (note that BasicTools does not have any of the vertical toolbars included - vertical toolbars for Formatting, Color Palette, Slide Library, Proofing Review and Chart formatting are available in PPT Productivity's PowerTools add-in for PowerPoint).

PPT Productivity Basic Tools features include the following:

• File features: Email selected slides as .pptx format or as PDF format in a single click
• Paragraph styles:
  • Set up to 9 PowerPoint text and indent styles and create shortcut buttons for each. You can use this feature to remember custom bullet point levels, or a variety of different text styles.
  • Quickly insert check marks or cross marks to PowerPoint presentations
• Other Text formatting features: shortcuts to format text, split textboxes or join textboxes, superscript, delete or replace text (e.g. to redact text by converting to X or ...), buttons to quickly increase or decrease PowerPoint text margins,
• Shape formatting features buttons to:
  • Make PowerPoint shapes same height and width,
  • Nudge shapes vertically and horizontally,
  • Swap position of shapes
  • Quick access to change line weight on shapes (eg to be thicker or thinner)
• Table formatting features: buttons that make it easy to insert rows and columns, center table on slide, apply quick table formatting
• Image formatting features: quick access to the features for cropping images and reducing image file size
• Slide features: camouflage option aka PowerPoint airplane mode to conceal slide branding for discretion while working in public spaces, Slide Title formatter, No Fly Zone for setting content perimeter on slides, and quick access to the Slide Layout gallery, send to appendix (single click to send a slide in your presentation to the back of the deck)
• Footer features: tag slides with source file and page number, slide numbering features to include slide totals and customize slide numbering wording, slide footer magnifier for easy reviewing

If you have already purchased PPT Productivity's Basic Tools for PowerPoint, we recommend visiting our Getting Started with Basic Tools page which includes an overview video and training resources.

If you're still assessing the PPT Productivity PowerPoint add-ins, compare the features by reading the pages for PowerTools and PlusTools, or view a summary table comparison of features on our Pricing Page.

PPT Productivity has been boosting productivity in PowerPoint for more than 14 years. We have a friendly support team and we offer free trials of Power Tools which has access to all features. We also offer free walkthroughs. Reach out for a chat if you have questions.