PPTools - Add-ins for Microsoft PowerPoint

11/02/2021

Honored and delighted to have been part of a recent episode of The Presentation Podcast: https://thepresentationpodcast.com/2021/e137/
along with Jamie Garroch of BrightCarbon. Thanks, Troy Chollar, Sandy Johnson and Nolan Haims for the invitation and an ALWAYS interesting podcast at https://thepresentationpodcast.com/

Show Notes – Episode #137 Troy, Nolan and Sandy talk about what's new and happening in the Presentation industry and their design studies. Then the conversation is turned over to special guests Steve Rindsberg of PPTools and Jamie Garroch of BrightSlide for a fantastic time talking about PowerPoin...

05/12/2020

New PPTools Merge users sometimes run into a few minor bumps getting things set up and working properly the first time around. I've put together a simple video demo of the basics. Have a look:

10/23/2019

Caroline Wanga makes a powerful (and very accessible) case for diversity and inclusion. Look her up on Google ... she's a POPULAR speaker. You'll see why.

And here's a quote from her that I love:

"I make PowerPoints because they're corporate comfort food."

She had me right there.

A sample:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q_WVYVJhZ4

10/23/2019

Sometimes we work on slides that include shapes or images that are larger than the slides themselves, or that hide one or more slide edges.
That can make it hard (well, impossible!) to judge where the edges of the slides ARE. And what will appear during slideshows. Or in printouts.
We've written a little macro that will automatically (and instantly) add an outline around each slide in the current presentation. Anything inside the outline will appear in slideshows/printouts. Anything outside won't.
Oh, and of course there's another macro that REMOVES the outlines if you no longer need them.
Enjoy!

From the PowerPoint FAQ: Add an outline showing the edges of slides

10/11/2018

Way belated shout-out to the folks at Advanced Installer (https://www.advancedinstaller.com/). It's an amazingly deep and powerful tool for creating software installation programs. It can take a little while to wrap your head around it, but that's been true of every really excellent bit of software I've ever used and stuck with over time. It's WELL worth the time it takes to learn it. Master it? I'm nowhere NEAR that place, but running hard toward it.

04/05/2017

If you're a StarterSet Plus user, you'll like a feature we've just added. Before: you could use the insert picture tool to add a picture to the current slide. Now: you can select multiple pictures instead of just one; when you do that, the tool adds the first picture to the current slide, then duplicates the current slide once for each selected picture and adds a picture to each new slide.

04/03/2017

PPtools ImageExporter can now export much higher resolution images than previously. If you have PowerPoint 2013 or 2016 you can use ImageExporter to create images of up to 15,000 (yes, you read that right: FIFTEEN thousand) pixels, five times the previous limit. The cost of this amazing update? Nada. Nil. Null. Nothing. It's free; just download and install the latest version from http://www.pptools.com/downloads.htm and it's all yours.

PPTools - Power Tools for the PowerPoint Power User

04/23/2015

Wow. No. WOW!!! This just in: Presentation Summit in New Orleans will have Guy Kawasaki as the featured keynote speaker. http://www.betterpresenting.com/editorial/kawasaki/ And there's a nice discount on registration if you act quickly. WOW!!!!

In what conference organizers are calling their “best catch ever,” Guy Kawasaki joins the team of keynoters and presenters at the 2015 Presentation Summit, September 27-30 in the French Quarter of New Orleans. The former chief evangelist at Apple and current chief evangelist at Canva, Kawasaki has a…

02/16/2015

If your Surface or other WIndows RT tablet wasn't able to start PowerPoint, the fix is in:

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2956149

02/13/2015

Do you have a Surface RT tablet? Have you tried using PowerPoint since Tuesday? You may find that it won't start, though all of the other Office programs are fine. If so, have a look here to find out what's up. We'll keep this page updated as the situation develops and we learn more.

PowerPoint won't start on Surface RT tablets
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ01210-PowerPoint-wont-start-on-Surface-RT-tablets.htm

From the PowerPoint FAQ: PowerPoint won't start on Surface RT tablets