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Steve Rindsberg and Brian Reilly
 

You know how easy it is to break the links between PowerPoint and its associated files. Well, Steve and Brian have a fix. The free download version goes through your presentation and fixes any broken image link it comes across. It then generates a report of all the links in your presentation and whether they are broken or not. For a small fee, you can convert the free version to the full version which not only finds, reports and repairs all links, it also gives you the tools to manually change links when you need to.

Handout Wizard

Shyam Pillai

Need to create great looking PowerPoint handouts? This add-in lets you format handouts the way you want, preview the handouts, and even edit them. If you aren’t using Send to… Word, use this!

Image Importer

Shyam Pillai

Need to share the year’s photos with family, friends, or clients? You can use this add-in to import an entire directory of photos into your presentation all at once.

Kiosk Reset

Chirag Dalal

Puts back the reset for PPT 2002 kiosks, allowing kiosk presentations to reset to the first slide after a pre-determined amount of inactivity. In addition, lets you determine the length of time before the reset, which the built-in feature doesn’t do.

Palette Toolbar

Steve Rindsberg and Brian Reilly

Need more color flexibility than PowerPoint’s Color Schemes let you have? This great toolbar provides the tools you need to customize your presentation palette in ways you never imagined!

PowerLink Plus 2.0

ALADat

The Autorun CD Creation software made famous by Sonia Coleman, this wonderful tool does all the work for you to prepare your presentation for CD use. All you have to do is create your presentation, run the tool, and write the CD. It checks for and fixes links, creates a common directory, and lets you know about potential errors.

PPTools Starter Set or even better…

PPTools StarterSet Plus

Steve Rindsberg and Brian Reilly

All the nifty tools you never knew you needed to create excellent presentations. Includes nifty tricks like Small Caps for PowerPoint, Place Options (which lets you put things exactly where you want them), the button tools, and the layer manager. The Starter Set is free, Plus costs a little bit.

PPT-Timer

Tushar Mehta

Lets you insert a real-time clock into your running presentation. Great for timing breaks in sessions. Even better for letting presenters know when they are running too long, since it can be set to gracefully end the show if too much time has been used.

Save Selection

Bill Dilworth

This multi-purpose add-in lets you save parts of your presentation as a separate presentation. If that functionality isn’t enough, it also lets you set up an automatic way to do Slide X of Y and to create a linked summary slide (so that you have a live TOC for complicated presentations).

Sequential Save

Shyam Pillai

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. There are two kinds of PowerPoint users: those who have lost presentations and those who will. The Sequential Save add-in automatically saves your presentation files to a new name. This way, you always have a backup that you know works, no matter what happens.

Shape Styles

Steve Rindsberg and Brian Reilly

Lets you define a series of styles which you can apply to new and existing shapes at the click of a button. The free download only lets you keep three style sets at a time, the slightly more expensive full version lets you keep as many as you want.

Shortcut Manager and

Shortcuts for PowerPoint

Chirag Dalal

If you are a keyboard geek, instead of a mouse geek, you will find this add-in invaluable. Lets you set up keyboard shortcuts that can be used while you are creating the show and while you are running the show.