Review your PowerPoint presentation for shape and text outside slide boundaries or outside the No-Fly Zone

PPT Productivity's Proofing tools features include the Slide Layout Check. The Check Layout feature reviews your PowerPoint presentation and finds any slides with text or objects outside the slide boundaries so you can quickly fix them. You can also select a tighter boundary using PPT Productivity's No Fly Zone for PowerPoint feature.

Set up your No-Fly Zone and Proofing tools will flag for review any slides with text or objects outside your No-Fly Zone (helpful for example if you have colored branding around some of your slide perimeter).

Wondering why you need to review for shape outside boundaries? PowerPoint lets you add text or shapes to slides and move them outside the slide boundaries. This is very helpful when creating your slides but can cause issues when finalizing your presentation. Objects in PowerPoint that have been moved outside the slide boundaries remain in a presentation file until deleted, even though they are not visible when printing or presenting - so it's easy to forget about them.

If you opt to review against your No Fly Zone, the Check Layout feature flags any items outside the perimeter you have specified. Proofing Tools returns a list of objects to review. For each object you can choose to delete, or to relocate to within the slide boundaries.

The PowerPoint Layout check feature can also identify:

  • Shape alignment: if you have multiple shapes of the same type in a row that are not aligned, the Layout check for PowerPoint feature flags them to review or fix.
  • Rounded corner radius: If you are using rounded corner rectangles in your PowerPoint presentation and want to make the corners consistent, specify your preferred radius for rounded corners and use this setting to check for variance. The feature identifies any rectangles with rounded corners that are different to your preference, allowing you to autofix them (When you resize a rounded corner rectangle, the radius of the corner changes. This feature lets you reset the corner radius in PowerPoint for all rounded rectangles, so that your shapes look more consistent).
  • Ovals vs circles review: if you have oval shapes in your presentation, the Layout check feature will flag them for review (to check whether you intended them to be circles.)
  • Slide transitions: this feature flags PowerPoint Slide transitions in your presentation for review, so you can quickly delete them (helpful if you are distributing copies of a presentation after presenting).
  • Slide animations: this feature will flag any PowerPoint animations in your presentation for review so you can quickly delete them if necessary (also helpful when distributing copies of a presentation after presenting).