Charts
16 kinds of chart, from stacked bars to waterfall, Mekko and Gantt, drawn as real PowerPoint shapes. Double-click one to edit its data, and one Ctrl+Z takes it off. Decks with these charts open anywhere, a Mac included.
New on the SlideShortcuts tab
Your tab in PowerPoint, with more on it.
On Windows, everything on the SlideShortcuts tab is now built in: charts, 531 consulting templates, deck checks and more, with no panel to add. On a Mac, the tab puts Quick Actions, Icons and Send Slides one click away, and version 1.0.43 adds stickers like Preliminary and Draft on one key.
On Windows
SlideShortcuts for Windows 17.3.0. The SlideShortcuts tab is the first tab, PowerPoint opens on it, and it stays first even with other add-ins that put their tabs before Home. Everything below sits on it and runs inside the app: no web pages, nothing to add from the Office Store.
New in 17.3.0
- The SlideShortcuts tab stays first, even with other add-ins that put their tabs before Home.
- Templates has 531 pages, 43 more than before.
- A template's text fits your deck's fonts: in a wide font it takes the room beside it or is set a little smaller.
- Same Size has a new picture on the tab.
Fixed
- Holding Ctrl+0 a little too long no longer makes a second sticky.
- Template pages in decks with their own Title Only layout keep their source line in place.
- Charts, stickies and other inserted text no longer pick up a template's dash bullet.
Templates
531 consulting pages, put in after the slide in view, in your deck's own colors and fonts. The text fits your deck's fonts.
Check Pages and Check Layout
A note on every page that needs a look, and the layout slips (an edge a point off, uneven gaps) with Select and Fix.
Clean Up
Client codenames, file properties and anything off the slide, cleared before the deck goes out.
Quick Actions
All twelve in one small window that stays above PowerPoint, each with its keys.
Icons
2,000+ icons by category or search, in your theme colors, with an eyedropper for any color on the screen.
Send Slides
The slide, your selection or the whole deck, as a PDF or a PowerPoint copy, straight into a new email in Outlook, Gmail, Superhuman or your mail app, the new Outlook included. Ctrl Alt Shift S
Your own keys
Every key in one searchable window. Click Change on any command and press the keys you want.
Update in a minute
- Download 17.3.0 from the setup page.
- Close PowerPoint and run it over your current version: no uninstall needed, and your license stays.
- Open PowerPoint. The SlideShortcuts tab is there.
Work laptop? If IT blocks the installer, send them slideshortcuts.com/it. Charts needs Microsoft Edge WebView2, which Windows 11 and Microsoft 365 include; the first chart in a PowerPoint session takes about two seconds to start.
Updating removes the older panel. If a second SlideShortcuts tab is still at the end of the ribbon, that's the optional panel from the Office Store: keep it, or remove it in PowerPoint with Home, Add-ins, More Add-ins, then My Add-ins, right-click SlideShortcuts and choose Remove (on older versions, Insert, then My Add-ins).
On a Mac
SlideShortcuts for Mac 1.0.43. The SlideShortcuts panel now has 500+ consulting templates, and the app can put its own tab in PowerPoint, right before Home. If you haven't turned the tab on yet, it takes a minute.
New in 1.0.43
- Stickers: press ⌃ ⌥ S and pick Preliminary, Draft, For discussion or six more, or type your own words, in one of four small styles. Press it again to take a sticker off, and Change All or Remove All works across the deck.
- ⌥ ⇧ B steps every Harvey ball, including ones put in from the panel or on Windows.
- A sticker doesn't pick up a firm template's bullets.
Fixed
- ⌥ ⇧ B on a 25%, 50% or 75% ball no longer leaves the old ball underneath.
- With the SlideShortcuts tab on, each ⌥ ⇧ B press is its own Undo.
- Templates, in the panel. 500+ consulting pages in the SlideShortcuts panel, added after the slide in view in your deck's own colors and fonts.
- Charts, in the panel. 16 chart types, from stacked bars to waterfall, Mekko and Gantt, drawn as PowerPoint shapes. Double-click one to edit its data.
- Quick Actions. Select Similar, Group Rows and Group Columns, with or without the panel.
- Arrange. Same Size, Width and Height, and every align and distribute.
- Icons. 2,000+, in any color, with an eyedropper for any color on the screen.
- Symbols and tables. Harvey balls, symbols, text-box tables and lines, from dropdowns.
- Send Slides. The slide, your selection or the whole deck, as a PDF or a PowerPoint copy, straight into a new email. ⌃ ⌥ ⇧ S
- Keyboard Shortcuts. Every key in one searchable window, and the ones you changed.
Don't see the SlideShortcuts panel? It's a free add-in from Microsoft AppSource, separate from the Mac app.
Turn it on
- Click the S in the menu bar. If it says Update available, click it.
- Click the S again and choose SlideShortcuts Tab in PowerPoint.
- Reopen PowerPoint. The tab sits before Home. If macOS asks to let SlideShortcuts access data from other apps, click Allow.