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.

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:

When most people think of SVGs they imagine very small, scaleable graphics. So it can come as a surprise when after adding one or more of these images to a PowerPoint presentation, the file size of the deck suddenly inflates massively. Find out why, and also what you can do about it.

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 😊

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.

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

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.

Find and remove unused slide masters and layouts fast. Combine presentations and reassign slides between layouts more easily in PowerPoint.

On November 20, 2021, NXPowerLite Desktop - our first software product - turns 20 years old! Read all about its evolution through 9 major versions and hundreds of minor point releases.

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.

Announcing NXPowerLite Desktop Mac 9, the latest installment of our hugely popular Mac file compressor. Here’s a quick look at what’s new in version 9.

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.

If you need to replace fonts in PowerPoint but the Replace Fonts feature is not working, then find out how the Slidewise add-in can help you to replace difficult-to-remove fonts.

If you want to use NXPowerLite to quickly resize JPEG images from Explorer, here’s how you do it. The first time you want to do this you will need to set up a custom profile for the resizing - 1920x1080 works well for images to be viewed on high-resolution screens.