I originally created this PowerPoint add-in in 2014, however till today… still get requests for it. I just wanted to distribute it in case it might make your life a bit easier.
Introduction:
Some of us have that situation, where people ask us for particular PowerPoint slides. Which often results in us copying and pasting, or saving a new version to the desktop and deleting the slides we don’t need, at times this can be a 10-20 minute issue (depending on the size of the deck). To help solve this I have spent some time creating an add-in toolbar which looks like this:
What this toolbar does?
It create 3 buttons, which do the following:
- The first button saves a copy of the PowerPoint presentation to your desktop only with the Selected Slides.
- The second button saves a copy of the PowerPoint presentation only with the Selected Slides to your desktop, and attaches it to a new email.
- The 3rd Button is a help button in case you forget what the buttons do.
Disclaimer:
I know some of the consulting firms buy software packages to add this functionality to PowerPoint, I just thought it would be cool and save some of our time if we had this feature.
The PowerPoint add-in attached to this email provides the functionality explained above, however please be aware that this has only been tested on Office 2010/ Office 2013+ and Windows 7, however I do not foresee it having problems if used on Office 2007 and Windows 7 – (Anything older and you on your own).
Also whilst this add-in does not delete any presentation content (merely copies), I will not hold myself accountable for any loss or issues you may perceive happened as a result of it.
You can download the required files you need from the link below or from my Github repository.
What is included in the attachments:
A zip file with 3 items, which includes a word document with installation instructions.
The zip file:
- Includes a certificate, this you will have to install first, as it proves to your computer that the code was developed by myself and asks your computer to trust it.
- Includes the add-in file which will need to be copied to the C:\Users\<Windows username or Employee number>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Addins\ folder
- Installation instructions in word document format.