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What’s new in Slidewise 2?

We’re really excited to announce the arrival of Slidewise 2. This major upgrade includes new features to manage the colors in your presentations, find cropped images and reassign slide layouts more easily. We have also dramatically improved reliability and reduced UI friction, making Slidewise feel more effortless to use.

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How to find and replace colors in PowerPoint

Learn how to use a free tool to simplify finding and replacing colors in PowerPoint. Bonus you can also use it to do a quick check to make sure your presentation is fully using the Theme colors.

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What’s new in Slidewise 1.8

What a lot has changed in just one month! We have added not one but two headline features this month – Transitions and Consolidate Slide Masters. See what’s new in 1.8.

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What’s new in Slidewise 1.7

We’ve taken another little step on our journey to cutting the time people spend checking, updating and fixing their PowerPoint presentations. Here’s a quick look at what’s new in Slidewise 1.7:

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Introducing Slidewise 1.5

Thanks for bearing with us while we have chipped away at this latest release. It has been almost 4 months since we last updated Slidewise! A long time without a release, but once you try the new version I hope you’ll agree it was worth the wait 😊

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How to extract images from PowerPoint

If you need to extract one or more images from a PowerPoint presentation to use in another project, we will show you three different ways to do it.

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What is a WDP file in PowerPoint?

A short post exploring what WDP files are, and how they are used in PowerPoint presentations for images that have artistic effects applied.

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Slidewise update October 21

We’re back working on Slidewise after a break to work on essential NXPowerLite updates. In case you haven’t encountered it before, Slidewise is our PowerPoint add-in that makes checking, cleaning and editing presentations much easier. Read what’s new in our October update.

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Why are fonts not displaying properly in your PowerPoint presentation?

If you’ve ever had a conversation with someone about why your presentation looks different on their computer than it does on yours, then you’ve probably encountered this strange quirk of PowerPoint. Font substitution will happen when a presentation contains fonts that are not installed on the computer.

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