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
