It's easy to save shapes, icons, logos or entire slides to your PowerPoint Slide Library for quick reuse.

Simply select the shape or slide you want to save (to select an entire slide, click on it in the thumbnail preview to the left of screen). From the Slide Library toolbar, click Save shape.

A popup box will appear so that you can enter a name for the shape or slide. You can also nominate the best thumbnail for the shape or slide that will appear in the Slide Library toolbar when searching.

By default, PPT Productivity prepopulates the name with text from your PowerPoint slide in the following order:

  • Any text in the Notes field
  • Any text found in the slide Title
  • Any text found in a shape on the slide (in the order added to the slide)
You can select from the radio buttons to choose either the PowerPoint slide title or slide notes to be used for the shape name. Or you can enter a new name for the shape or slide. The Slide Library Object or Slide names do not need to be unique - but it does make it easier when searching the library to find the shape or slide later.

Next, choose whether to save as Shapes or as a Slide. Objects saved as slides will insert a new slide into your PowerPoint presentation when selected later. Objects added as a shape will be added to a slide when you select them from the library. When you save objects such as images, icons or logos, any existing hyperlinks or alt text that are part of the original object are saved in the Slide Library. For example - if you add a hyperlink and alt text to a company logo and then save it to the Slide Library, the hyperlink and alt text will appear when you paste the logo to a new presentation.