Slidewise 2.6: Conversation with Mike Power

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      Mike Power owns and runs Neuxpower, the company behind the popular file compressor NXPowerLite and the amazing PowerPoint add-in, Slidewise. He has been running Neuxpower for more than 25 years, which makes him feel a tiny bit old. When at work he enjoys designing useful software, and is really loving the challenge of making Slidewise powerful, yet easy to use.

In this conversation, Mike talks about Slidewise’ new version 2.6. Slidewise is a PowerPoint add-in that helps users to find, edit, and control their presentation content more efficiently.

Geetesh: Mike, the new Slidewise 2.6 is now out. Could you fill us in on the updates and improvements in this version?

Mike Absolutely! We are trying to get into the habit of smaller more frequent updates, to ensure that people enjoy the benefit of improvements more continually, rather than all together in a big bang once a year.

There are 2 new significant features in 2.6. The first is an expansion of the existing Export original image feature. We realized that if the images you wanted to export were all together on a slide, then it would be a million times more convenient to just select the images on the slide and export them from there. So, we’ve added that to the right-click menu and the Ribbon so you can do just that. We’ve made a short video of this feature so you can see how it works.

The second feature is one to allow you to easily select and export slides as images or new PowerPoint files. We’ve again added this to the right-click menu and Ribbon for convenience and we included the option to select your export size using pixels or physical dimensions with DPI to make it easier for people who need to export slides to use in print. You can watch this feature here:

We also spent some time improving the way the software behaved when you asked it to do something. There was a lot of unnecessary friction if Slidewise got out of sync with your file. If you asked it to export an image for example, it would say it couldn’t until you saved your file. However, after saving your file, Slidewise then lost your place in its index and didn’t export the image. Now it remembers where you were, and automatically resumes what you asked it to do after saving the file. It’s so much friendlier, which is a big win from our perspective – hopefully people using Slidewise will agree.

The full details of everything that has changed are in this 2.6 release blog post.

Geetesh: What are the advantages of using Slidewise?

Mike Slidewise helps users find issues and inconsistencies in their presentations, in a fraction of the time it would take otherwise. It also gives them the tools or advice to fix any issues they find.

For presentation or event professionals, this tool will save them many hours and make ensure they make fewer mistakes. For occasional or even frequent corporate PowerPoint users, this tool is the ultimate get out of trouble card. It ensures that whatever presentations come across their desk, they won’t ever get stuck wondering why a file is misbehaving, or why it is so large, or why it keeps throwing that error about a particular font.

We are already working on version 3, which we hope to release early in 2025. We are excited to see how much we can possibly cram into this next major update. Our ideas backlog is huge!

Geetesh: And is there a trial version to check it out?

Mike Slidewise is available with a fully functional 30-day trial. It’s $79 per year if you want to use all of the functionality, however there is also has a free-forever mode with limited but still useful capabilities.

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