9 PowerPoint Tools To Boost Your Productivity
9 PowerPoint Tools to Boost Your Productivity
PowerPoint is ubiquitous in business meetings, to the point where its name has become synonymous with presentations. However, just because it’s “the best” doesn’t mean it can’t be better.
The presentation-making process can be quite time-consuming and limiting if you rely on PowerPoint's out-of-the-box features.
Maybe you need to browse, locate, format, and manage images for a presentation. Or, you’re a number-cruncher who isn’t confident in your design skills and need a template to get started. Or, maybe you want to create charts using data from an Excel spreadsheet in your PowerPoint presentation.
No matter what the pain point in your presentation-making process is, there's a tool out there that can help. We’ve put together some PowerPoint tools that will make your life (and presentation process) much easier.
Here are some of our favorite tools for PowerPoint:
BrightSlide
This PowerPoint tool is designed to boost your productivity, enabling you to create polished, professional-looking presentations.
Among its many features, it offers a handy custom grid, saving regularly used animation combinations as templates, and editing similar objects across slides at once.
think-cell
If you want to create quick and stunning charts in your presentation, we're excited to introduce you to think-cell.
think-cell can automatically update charts when you adjust data in excel, saving you a massive amount of headache on the most repetitive tasks. And it's easier to create more powerful charts with the simple interface, which is loved by 9/10 Fortune 500 companies and has won multiple G2 awards for garnering an impressive reputation.
Get a free trial (no credit card required) or join one of our webinars to see it in action:
Icons by Noun Project
Little details can add value to your presentations. Icons are one such little detail.
Icons by Noun Project is a PowerPoint add-in that can help you add high-quality, editable, and formattable icons and characters to your slides.
The tool’s library offers hundreds of icons to choose from. You can use it for free but will be limited in what you can download. However, if you opt for the NounPro Unlimited Individual (or Team) Subscription, you only pay $3.33 per month, paid annually.
Among its many features, it offers a handy custom grid, saving regularly used animation combinations as templates, and editing similar objects across slides at once.
Icons by Noun Project
Little details can add value to your presentations. Icons are one such little detail.
Icons by Noun Project is a PowerPoint add-in that can help you add high-quality, editable, and formattable icons and characters to your slides.
The tool’s library offers hundreds of icons to choose from. You can use it for free but will be limited in what you can download. However, if you opt for the NounPro Unlimited Individual (or Team) Subscription, you only pay $3.33 per month, paid annually.
iSpring Free
While HTML5Point is great for converting presentations into an HTML document, iSpring Free does that as well as converting presentations into an eLearning course.
The PowerPoint tool allows you to incorporate YouTube videos and web objects into the PPT presentation. You can also add quizzes and surveys to your slides.
LiveWeb
If you want to show a webpage in your presentation, you’ll love LiveWeb. This tool for PowerPoint allows you to add web pages directly into your slides.
And, you can interact with the page within the presentation—even refresh it in real time—as if the slide show were a browser.
Motion Path Tools
While PowerPoint does offer some transition effects to add animation to your slides, it’s limited in scope. For more professional-looking animation effects, you can use Motion Path Tools.
Pexels
A stock image resource that plugs into PowerPoint, Pexels allows you access to not only images but also filters and effects. You can search and add images from the program, saving you time when making your presentations.
Pixton Comic Characters
If you’re making a “fun” presentation—especially for pedagogical purposes—Pixton Comic Characters is a PPT tool that you’d like.
It offers a range of over 40,000 illustrated characters, all of which can be customized. You can also add speech bubbles to make your characters more interactive.
And, it’s not just for PowerPoint—you can use it for Google Slides presentations as well.
QR4Office
If you want people to go to your website or a specific online resource, a QR code is a much more efficient way to send them there than trying to get them to type in the URL.
With QR4Office, generating a QR code for your presentation becomes much easier.
Create better presentations more quickly with think-cell
If you rely on charts to tell your data-driven story, then we (obviously) highly recommend think-cell.
With this PowerPoint add-in, you can easily enhance bar charts, waterfall charts, and more to include annotations like trendlines, difference arrows, and CAGR call-outs that help you tell your story. You can also create complex and time-consuming Gantt, Mekko, scatter, and combo charts with a simple point-and-click interface. You can even automate chart updates so your recurring reports are not so cumbersome.
It also offers a selection of presentation tools to make your slideshow look more professional and interesting. With the ability to create quick slide layouts and insert style files to ensure brand compliance across PowerPoint templates, you can standardize the look-and-feel of slides across your entire team.
If you're ready to elevate your presentations and cut the time consuming headaches of PowerPoint work, then you can try think-cell for free and join our 30-min demos to learn how to use our most popular features: