Hide Format Tab – hides the contextual Shape Format tab that normally becomes active whenever a shape is selected. This has the effect of keeping the ToolsToo tab in focus until another tab is manually selected.
Extract Slides tools
Support for saving to any file format offered by PowerPoint
Option to run the Remove Unused Slide Masters and Layouts tool
Add Connection Sites now also adds a connection site in the center of each selected shape
Ability to use a custom ribbon
Ability to use custom icons
Renamed tools:
“Lock Aspect Ratio” → “Preserve Aspect Ratio”
“Text Split/Join” shape tool → “Split/Join Text”
“Split Text” slide tool → “Split Text to Two Slides”
New icons for the following tools:
Preserve Aspect Ratio
Make Line Horizontal
Make Line Vertical
Swap Arrows
Changes in Behavior:
Make Same Adjustments tool scope has been expanded to copy adjustment values from the Reference Shape to any selected shape
Revised identification of lines to include additional shape types such as arcs, freeform scribbles, and curves
Lock Aspect Ratio settings are preserved
Add to Group tool now preserves the group hierarchy and name
Make Same Rotation now normalizes all computed rotation angles to 0 <= rotation angle < 360
Add Connection Sites now also adds a connection site in the center of each selected shape
Make Same Table Column Width and Make Same Table Format now work when the current selection is a table cell and the Reference Shape mode is not First Shape
Set Title now produces one message for all slides that could not have their title set rather than a message per slide
Infrastructure Changes:
New name: ToolsToo Pro for PowerPoint
Reduced DLL size by more than 78% compared to ToolsToo V8.2.2 to improve load times and reduce memory footprint
Added global exception handler (turned off by default) for easier trapping of runtime exceptions
Bug Fixes:
Corrected z-order preservation in Add to Group tool
Corrected exception in Make Same Rotation tool when attempting to rotate non-rotatable object types (e.g., tables)
Corrected exception in the Make Same Motion Path End, Animation Splitter, and Copy to Motion Path End tools when running in locales which use a decimal symbol other than a period
Corrected exception in Make Same Column Width and Make Same Table Format tools when nothing was selected
Make Same Table Format does not proceed if Clipboard history is enabled in Windows
Implemented retry mechanisms to address copy and paste issues in Make Same Table Format
