New Features

• Partial support for Office Themes
  • Three themes added to all custom forms and controls:
    • Light
    • Dark Gray
    • Black
  • Theme selected automatically based on Office (2016 and later) and Windows settings.
  • If you change your Office Theme with the Advanced Spacing Pane open, it remains in the old theme. It can be redrawn in the new theme by activating it again from the Make Same menu.
  • The Settings page uses a built-in tab control with limited support for applying themes.
  • Message boxes use a system control and are always rendered in the light theme.

New Tools

• Make Same Shape
• Swap Formatting
• Extract Comments
• New chain tools:
  • Select Body
  • Select Title
• Split Text to Two Columns

New Features

• Auto check for update
• Option to set layout name to be used by Agenda Generation tool

New Settings

• Horizontal Direction – specifies the horizontal direction (Left to Right, Right to Left) in which shapes are laid out by the Horizontal Spacing and Distribute Horizontally tools
• Vertical Direction – specifies the vertical direction (Top to Bottom, Bottom to Top) in which shapes are laid out by the Vertical Spacing and Distribute Vertically tools

Changes in Behavior

• Distribute Horizontally now uses the Horizontal Direction setting instead of the text direction of the Reference Shape
• Distribute Vertically now uses the Vertical Direction setting
• Renamed the following Chain Tools and moved them from Make Same -> Spacing to Settings -> Other Tools
  • Set Horizontal Spacing Direction -> Set Horizontal Direction
  • Set Vertical Spacing Direction -> Set Vertical Direction
• Make Same Width, Make Same Height, Make Same Size now set the perpendicular dimension(s) when the target shape is rotated 90 or 270 degrees
• The Reference Shape-based tools, the Pickup tool, and most of the Shape tools will now operate on the selected shape even if text input is active
• Simplified, per-user only, installer, no administrator privileges required. Existing per-machine installations will need to be manually uninstalled prior to installing this version.

Bug Fixes

• Corrected version update check algorithm
• Renamed “Hide Format Tab” option to “Hide Shape Format Tab”
• Corrected an issue preventing the display of the Advanced Spacing pane after using the Add to Group, Remove from Group, or Transpose Tables tools
• Extract Notes tool now displays an error message when trying to extract to a file that is already open
• Corrected a startup error when creating a new document with a theme
• Split Text to Two Slides and Transpose Tables now work correctly in presentations in which the slides numbers do not start from 1
• Removed extraneous carriage return from end of text in original slide after using the Split Text to Two Slides tool
• Added error trapping in Split Animation tool

Bug Fixes

• Imported chains are now persisted

New Tools

• Remove Empty Placeholders – removes all empty placeholders in current presentation
• Center Label Above Line – centers a shape above a line. Particularly useful for text boxes used as line labels
• Center Label Under Line – centers a shape under a line. Particularly useful for text boxes used as line labels

New Features

• Added the Font group from the Home tab to the ToolsToo ribbon (Intermediate and Expert UI modes)

Bug Fixes

• Removed Select All chain tool option as it was not implemented in the code
• Corrected exception in Split Text to Two Slides tool
• Select Same tools now work when a slide is selected
• Corrected tooltip for Run Chain on Select Slides tool

Bug Fixes

• Corrected handling of Word styles in Extract Notes to support non-English installations

Bug Fixes

• Implemented retry mechanism to address copy and paste issues in Extract Notes
• Corrected handling of shapes with “Hide on Next Mouse Click” animation effect option in Split Animation tool

Bug Fixes

• Added delay in Extract Notes to correct timing issues which prevented pasting some notes into Microsoft Word
• Corrected initialization issue in the Advanced Spacing Pane
• Corrected display scaling issues in dialogs

New Tools

• Autofit Text to Shape – sets the largest font size for each selected shape such that its text fits in one line at the shape’s current width
• Select Same Width – selects shapes with the same width as that of the Reference Shape
• Select Same Height – selects shapes with the same height as that of the Reference Shape
• Select Same Size – selects shapes with the same size as that of the Reference Shape
• Generate Agenda Slides – generates agenda slides from section names and highlights successive topics
• Increase/decrease horizontal/vertical spacing

New Features

• Pick Up Shape from right-click context menus
• Added support for locked shapes
  • Most impacted tools ignore locked shapes
  • Operations where the positions of shapes are determined from the position of the prior shape are blocked if one or more of the shapes are locked
• Most settings moved to new Settings panel, greatly reducing the need to repeatedly traverse cascading menus
• Ribbon tooltips show the values of the applicable settings
• Option to install without Administrator privileges
• Check for updates
• Anchor points for Swap Shapes
• Make Same Horizontal/Vertical Spacing:
  • Advanced Spacing pane
  • Ability to set spacing amount manually
  • Ability to specify spacing direction (left to right or right to left, top to bottom or bottom to top)
  • Option to apply spacing in pairs, moving every other shape

Changes in Behavior

• Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 is no longer supported
• Increased width of chain name dropdown in ribbon
• More detailed error message when the Reference Shape mode is set to Presentation Space and the Presentation Space is not defined
• Added support for videos in Make Same Crop, Make Same Scale, and Scale to … tools
• Scale to Height tool now sets the width of selected shapes that are not pictures/videos to their height. This is useful for making shapes perfectly square or circular.
• Scale to Width tool now sets the height of selected shapes that are not pictures/videos to their width. This is useful for making shapes perfectly square or circular.
• Set Language tool now displays a dialog to display options:
  • Select Language
    • If Microsoft Word is found, a drop-down list will be displayed to select the desired language
    • If Microsoft Word is not found, the language will be set to the default editing language for the presentation
  • Scope: either the entire presentation (including all slide masters and layouts) or selected slides
• Distribute Horizontally and Distribute Vertically tools now stagger the shapes horizontally/vertically if they do not fit within Reference Shape
• SetLanguage method now requires the language ID and scope
• SetUsePickedUpSpacing method has been renamed to SetApplySpacing

Bug Fixes

• Expert level Extract Selected Slides option to Remove Unused Slide Masters and Layouts is now turned off when switching from Expert mode to Beginner or Intermediate UI mode
• Exception when using Make Same Shadow tool to apply certain built-in styles, such as the beveled oval picture style
• “User Guide not found” error when using 32-bit PowerPoint in 64-bit Windows
• Resetting of the ribbon when changing the UI Mode through a Chain or from macros
• No longer creates extraneous HKCU\ToolsToo entry in registry when exiting PowerPoint

Bug Fixes

• Corrected the behavior of Use Picked Up Spacing to support overlapping shapes in Non-overlapping Spacing Mode
• Corrected the handling of Use Picked Up Spacing and vertical spacing
• Corrected exceptions in Replicate tool

Changes in Behavior

• When a chain contains multiple Select Same tools, they are now handled as a series, such that subsequent Select Same tools are skipped if any result in an empty selection. To start a new series of Select Same tools in the same chain, include the Unselect tool before the new series.

Bug Fixes

• Corrected the names of several tools in the Add Chain and Edit Chain dialogs to more closely match their name in the ToolsToo ribbon tab. When editing existing chains created in a prior version, the corrected tool names will appear.