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.

Changes in Behavior:

• Run Chain on Selected Slides tool now completes with nothing selected
• Run Chain on Selected Slides tool now runs only on the selected slides. The previous behavior where it would run on all slides if only one slide was selected has been removed.

Bug Fixes:

• Select Same tools now work correctly on slides with hidden shapes

New Tools:

• Remove Design Elements tool to remove all non-placeholder elements from all master layouts and slide layouts in preparation for applying a new design
• Make Same Font Name

New Features:

• Ability to call ToolsToo Pro for PowerPoint tools from VBA. See User Guide for details.
• Tool Chains – string your favorite ToolsToo Pro for PowerPoint tools together to execute with a single click on current slide, selected slides, or all slides
• Chain Tools for use with Tool Chains
  • Delete First Selected Shape
  • Paste Last – adds clipboard contents as last item in current shape selection
  • Unselect

Changes in Behavior:

• Spacing option in the Adjoin group has been replaced with Use Picked Up Spacing options under Make Same Horizontal Spacing and Make Same Vertical Spacing
• Pick Up Horizontal Spacing and Pick Up Vertical Spacing can be used with all spacing modes
• Use Picked Up Spacing can be used with all spacing modes
• Pick Up tool can pick up two shapes
  • If one shape is picked up, it is used as the Reference Shape
  • If two shapes are picked up, the first shape is used for the Select Same tools while the second shape is used for all other tools that use the Reference Shape
• If a group is selected (but not any shapes within the group) when using the Select Same tools with Reference Shape modes other than First Shape, all the shapes within the group will be searched for a match against the Reference Shape

Infrastructure Changes:

• Extensive changes to the ToolsToo_Ribbon.xml file to support Tool Chains and the ability to call ToolsToo Pro for PowerPoint tools from VBA
  Note: The new ribbon XML is not backward compatible with the ribbon XML file from V9.0. If you are using a custom ribbon file, you will need to update most of the OnAction callbacks.
• Switched to .msi installer to reduce false positive anti-virus findings
• New installation folder structure

Bug Fixes:

• Updated add-in description in PowerPoint add-ins screen
• Improved error messages for Make Same Spacing tools in Intermediate UI Mode
• Corrected infinite loop when using the Bring Forward and Send Backward tools on grouped shapes where some of the shapes are in different subgroups within the group. Since this situation cannot be detected in advance, some changes may have already been completed when the loop is detected. A message is displayed advising the user to undo.
• Corrected exception when Select Same Line tools were used on tables. The Select Same Line tools now ignore tables.