Mike Power Mike Power

What’s new in Slidewise 2.6

We have a great little update to Slidewise for you today. New features and some existing features working a much better. Read on to find out what's new in version 2.6.

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Mike Power Mike Power

How to change proofing language in PowerPoint

It’s surprisingly easy to find yourself with a variety of different proofing languages set on different placeholders and text elements in your PowerPoint presentation. We’ll show you how to tame this confusion and make sure the languages you set don’t keep changing.

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Mike Power Mike Power

How to embed fonts in PowerPoint

Learn how to embed fonts in your PowerPoint presentations to maintain visual consistency. Also we share some alternative approaches that allow you to avoid embedding and a tool to help manage your fonts more easily.

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Mike Power Mike Power

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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Mike Power Mike Power

How to find and fix links in PowerPoint

Do you need to check a presentation for broken links? Update an existing link everywhere it’s used? Or remove all hyperlinks? Learn how to do all this and more with the PowerPoint add-in, Slidewise.

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Mike Power Mike Power

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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Mike Power Mike Power

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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Mike Power Mike Power

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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Mike Power Mike Power

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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Andy Dargon Andy Dargon

Why is my Zip file still too big?

So here’s the familiar issue; I have a myriad of documents and images to share via email or upload to an online portal. I collect all the files in a zip file and upload them. Only as soon as I do, I receive a warning that I have exceeded the attachment size limit and the files will not be sent or shared.

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Mike Power Mike Power

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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Mike Power Mike Power

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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