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Refine Slides
PPT Productivity PowerPoint plugin has 200+ time saving features. Refine Slides in PowerPoint features include a summary slide generator, a quick formatter to align slide titles, send to appendix shortcut, no fly zone text boundary airplane mode logo/ branding camouflage, format painter, footnote magnifier and more.
Add summary slide
Feature Description
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Create a PowerPoint slide with a summary of your selected slide titles (or all of them), to ensure your storyline makes sense.
This can be used as the starting point for a PowerPoint table of contents, as the basis of an executive summary slide in PowerPoint or just added as a temporary slide for an editorial review. To select all slides, use the PowerPoint shortcut Ctrl-A in the thumbnail slide selector view. Then click the Create Summary Slide feature in the Slides group on the PPT Productivity Ribbon.
Productivity Tip
If you are trying to create an Agenda, Divider Slides or Table of contents, check out PPT Productivity's Agenda Wizard for PowerPoint.
Shortcut Keys
All PPT Productivity features can be used via the Customizable PowerPoint Shortcut Keys feature. You can update the shortcut keys to any preferred available combination. To get you started we created a PPT Productivity PowerPoint shortcut to insert summary slide: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+D
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Quickly format all slide titles in PowerPoint, to make them same font size and weight.
Change PowerPoint slide title(s) to a standard font size and boldness title, with different settings available for the second sentence (ideal if using subtitles with a smaller font).
The feature can update your the current slide, or multiple slides/ entire presentation if more than one is selected.
To set up your preferred PowerPoint slide title sizes, go to the PPT Productivity tab > Settings > Format Title. Set your desired font size and bold settings for the first and remaining sentence in a slide title.
Productivity Tip
Use Ctrl+click with the Format slide title button to also remove other formatting such as italics, or underline and convert to Sentence case
Use the Format Slide Title in conjunction with the Copy paste position, size feature to align slide titles in PowerPoint after making them the same font size (so the positioning of the start of each slide title is identical across slides)
Display No Fly Zone
The No Fly Zone for PowerPoint feature can be used to set a boundary for placing text on your slide. Also known as a Title safe or Action safe border for Powerpoint slides (a reference to the old content display rules for TVs).
This feature is useful when your company has branding rules or team guidelines on text placement, or if your PowerPoint template has image or color surrounds that you need to keep text away from. Consulting firms typically use the No Fly Zone feature to ensure all slides in a presentation have a consistent content layout.
The feature shows or hides a cross hatch shading which denotes the boundary. Note that the No Fly Zone is a visual guide for editing only (similar to the standard Grid and Guides feature in PowerPoint). The No Fly Zone shading will not appear when presenting or printing PowerPoint slides, when saving slides to your Slide Library or when pasting slides as mini slides into a presentation.
Toggle the No Fly Zone on or off for your PowerPoint presentation using the feature button in the Slides group on the PPT Productivity ribbon. When the No Fly Zone is displayed, selecting the Align features on the Format Toolbar will align a selected single textbox or shape to the No Fly Zone border (e.g. Align to left will align to the left NFZ border, align to top will align to the top NFZ border).
Customize the size of the No Fly Zone to your preferences or required company standards in Settings > No Fly Zone . You can select to apply a NFZ based on your current PowerPoint template, or you can specify dimensions for a custom NFZ. You can also select to apply PowerPoint Drawing Guides along the No Fly Zone border.
Productivity Tip
Working with a team? You can customize the setup of your No Fly Zone, then export this setup (along with a lot of other settings) to share it with your colleagues so that your team have the same setup. Read more about sharing custom PPT Productivity settings across a team.
Send slide to appendix
Make reviewing and refining your PowerPoint deck easy. This feature lets you single click to send slides to the end of PowerPoint presentations. If your deck doesn't have a PowerPoint Appendix section, one is created automatically. Also known as the send slide to back feature.
When reviewing your PowerPoint presentation, PPT Productivity's Send Slide to Appendix feature lets you remove a slide from the main presentation and send to back of deck. You can then review the PowerPoint slides moved to the appendix, to decide whether to keep the slide in the appendix or delete it from your presentation.
Also known as a graveyard feature, this feature moves selected slides to Appendix in PowerPoint. It gets this name because this feature is helpful in the deck editing process. Once you have sent slides to the Appendix and reviewed the presentation, you can then review and sequence Appendix slides and delete any unnecessary slides once your main section is finalized.
An Appendix divider slide will be automatically added to the PowerPoint presentation the first time you send a slide in your presentation to the Appendix (if there is not already an existing Appendix slide divider).
The PowerPoint Send to Appendix feature is on both the main PPT Productivity Ribbon and the Format Toolbar.
Productivity Tip
The PowerPoint Appendix slide divider will only be created once, irrespective of how many slides you send to the Appendix.
Use this feature in conjunction with Sticky Notes when reviewing your deck. For example if you have a team meeting to review your PowerPoint deck, use the sticky notes for PowerPoint feature to annotate any other actions i.e., to incorporate a specific point into another slide, then send the slide to appendix and finish the updates after the meeting.
Not sure how to create an Appendix or what should go in that section? Read our helpful guide: Appendix in PowerPoint
Shortcut Keys
All PPT Productivity features can be used via the Customizable Shortcut Keys for PowerPoint feature. You can update the shortcut keys to any preferred available combination.
To get you started we created a PPT Productivity shortcut key for send slides to appendix.
Send to Back PowerPoint Shortcut: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+A
Camouflage mode
Aka Airplane mode and stealth mode, PowerPoint Camouflage mode hides the background of your slide to conceal slide branding and logos on master slide layouts. Perfect when working in public spaces like airplanes, so people nearby cannot see branding or logos of your firm or client on your screen.
PPT Productivity's Camouflage mode for PowerPoint works as a toggle to remove slide backgrounds temporarily. The feature masks your PowerPoint slide backgrounds with a white overlay - it can be quickly turned on or off by selecting the feature. The Camouflage mode feature is useful for working in public situations where you do not want anyone to see the company logo/color shown on the background.
Consultants call this feature Airplane mode because it's most commonly used for hiding client branding from nearby passengers when commuting to and from the client site.
Click the camouflage button on the PPT Productivity ribbon to turn on PowerPoint camouflage mode. Click again to turn camouflage mode off before you share the deck with others or once you are back in the office. To undo PowerPoint camouflage mode on another computer that doesn't have PPT Productivity installed, simply edit the Slide Master to show the background graphics and remove the transparent overlay on the Title and Content slides.
Productivity Tip
Press Shift as you open a PowerPoint presentation, and the presentation will open with Camouflage mode already enabled.
Shortcut Keys
All PPT Productivity features can be used via the Customizable Shortcut Keys for PowerPoint feature. You can easily add a custom shortcut key for camouflage mode.
