NEW FEATURE - PPT Productivity's Slide Builder Toolbar lets you create consulting style PowerPoint layouts in a flash.

PPT Productivity PowerPoint add-in creates features with consultants in mind. The Slide Builder Toolbar brings together key features to quickly create new slides in a presentation. Use the Slide Builder Toolbar to set up custom PowerPoint Guides for your presentation - eg perhaps in a 4 column layout for team bios, or a 2 column layout for a chart and description.

Once you select your preferred column and/or row guides, use the Slide Elements to quickly drop in headers, textboxes and other shapes. Headers and Textboxes will snap-to the column guides or row guides, filling the space and aligning to the top or side of your PowerPoint slide.

NEW FEATURE - PPT Productivity's PowerPoint Guides make setting up slides easy, by creating a layout with column and row guides to help arrange your content.

The PowerPoint Guides feature lets you quickly setup your PowerPoint slide layout by specifying columns, rows, and gutters as visual guides for arranging your slide. The dotted guide lines will not appear when you print or present. Choose your preferred number of column guides and/ or row guides - for example set a 4 column guide layout to quickly add 4 client credentials. Plus, turn on the snap textboxes feature option - when you add header and text boxes from the Slide Elements list, they will 'snap' to match the column widths.

There is a Show Guides checkbox on the Slide Builder Toolbar - simply uncheck this box once you have finished working with the guides if you no longer want them to display. Once you specify your preferred number of column and/or row guides, you can further customize the gutter sizing (column gaps) or outside margins (eg slide boundary or No Fly Zone).

NEW FEATURE - PPT Productivity's PowerPoint Align to Guides feature makes it easy to align content added to your PowerPoint slides. This feature can be used when you create slides the Slide Builder Guides, in Column or Row layouts.

The Align to Guides feature for PowerPoint lets you quickly format content added to your PowerPoint slide, based on the layout designated by Guides you have added using the Slide Builder Toolbar. For example, if you have setup a 3 column layout using the Slide Builder Guides, you can add icons to each column and click to align the icons to the center of each.

NEW FEATURE - PPT Productivity's Slide Builder Toolbar includes quick format buttons for text spacing.

When creating new slides using the Slide Builder Toolbar, you can use the Text Quick Format buttons to change line spacing of your text boxes in PowerPoint. You can select from five options - compressed spacing, tight spacing, normal spacing, loose spacing or expanded spacing for your textboxes.

NEW FEATURE - PPT Productivity's PowerPoint Slide Elements feature is a toolbox of headers, textboxes, section guides, number balls and other elements that make it easy to quickly set up a new PowerPoint slide from scratch.

The Slide Elements Toolbox contains textboxes and shapes that help you quickly setup new consulting style PowerPoint slides. If you turn on the snap textboxes checkbox, header text and body text boxes will snap to match the column widths when dragged onto your slide. The default elements will automatically recolor to apply your theme fonts and colors when added to slides (and they can all be updated according to personal/brand preferences).

The Elements include:

• Heading and Body Text boxes: when you add the Heading or Body text boxes to your slide from the Slide Builder, the elements will automatically resize when added to your slide to match the column width set up with the design guides
• Number Balls: click to add formatted Number Balls to your PowerPoint slide. PowerPoint Number Balls automatically recolor to match your template
• Callouts: The Callouts button lets you add a callout element to your PowerPoint slide - note that this is for callouts that you intend to keep in your final presentation (eg a datapoint callout on a chart). For marking up review comments you can use the Sticky Notes feature or the Sticky callouts feature described below
• Divider arrows: Quickly add a formatted divider arrow to your slide. It automatically positions in the column gaps between your content
• Harvey Balls: Add Harvey Balls to your slide from the Slide Builder toolbar (an additional option as Harvey Balls are also available from the Format Toolbar and the Ribbon)
• Percent Complete balls: Similar to a Harvey Ball in concept, the Number Balls/ Percent Balls let you show an icon for Percent complete that you can easily customize (simply key in your preferred number and the fill line automatically updates)
• Section bars: Quickly add section bars to your PowerPoint slides, to indicate chapters or levels in your deck
• Highlight text bar: The Highlight bar is a preformatted color textbox you can add to PowerPoint slides to highlight specific information (similar to a callout in concept, but styled for formal reports)
• Sticky callouts: An alternative to PPT Productivity's Sticky Notes that dock in the corner of PowerPoint slides. Sticky callouts can be positioned anywhere, and colors can be customized so you recognize reviewers. You can use the 'Find next' and 'Find previous' sticky Notes buttons to find next and previous sticky callouts
• Down arrow: The Down arrow feature lets you add a Takeaway box to PowerPoint slides
• Status note: An alternative to PPT Productivity's Status Stamps, the Status note lets you indicate the Status of a PowerPoint slide, with a tag that is automatically positioned to the right hand edge of your slide. The Status note is customizable, by default it says /STATUS
• Footnote/ source boxes: Simply click to add a Footnote or source box to your PowerPoint slides

NEW FEATURE - PPT Productivity's PowerPoint Save Table Format feature lets you save your preferred Table format in PowerPoint for quick reuse.

Standard PowerPoint does not offer a way to setup and save a table format for easy reuse. PPT Productivity has a button to save a custom PowerPoint table format in the Slide Builder Toolbar. Simply set up a table in PowerPoint with your preferred formatting, then right click the Table feature button on the Slide Builder toolbar and select 'save shape style'.

Your PowerPoint table format is now available to add to other slides in your presentation, or other PowerPoint presentations!

NEW FEATURE - PPT Productivity's PowerPoint Legend feature lets you quickly add a formatted legend template to PowerPoint slides. Choose from four legend styles or save your custom style for quick reuse.

PPT Productivity's Slide Builder Toolbar has a legend feature. Simply click to insert a pre formatted legend to your PowerPoint slides, and customize the wording and colors to suit your data. The Legend Elements let you click to add pre formatted data legends (to identify data in a vizualization - eg charts) to your PowerPoint slides. Choose from vertical and horizontal PowerPoint legend elements, and lines, boxes or moons (Harvey balls) legend shapes

NEW FEATURE - PPT Productivity's new Slide Builder Toolbar lets you save elements to the toolbar for fast reuse. You can assign custom shortcut keys to the Slide Builder features.

PPT Productivity lets you add custom PowerPoint shortcuts, so you can assign a shortcut to other features in PowerPoint. Simply right click any of the Slide Builder elements to assign a shortcut key. For example, assign a PowerPoint shortcut key to add a footnote to PowerPoint.