Day 1 – Hemmingway App (Writing help)
Day 2 – PollEverywhere (PowerPoint audience participation add-in)
Day 3 – The Great Suspender (Memory Manager – Chrome add-in)
Day 4 – Grammarly (Writing -Chrome add-in)
Day 5 – Dropbox for Gmail (Chrome add-in)
Day 6- Canva (online graphics tool)
Day 7- Google Drive for MS Office (Office add-in)
Day 8- Power User (add-in for PowerPoint)
Day 9- PowerPoint Labs (add-in for PowerPoint)
Continuing in the world of PowerPoint plug-ins, today I want to share some other cool things you can’t do with PowerPoint alone. Power-Point Labs is another plugin for PowerPoint with provides you with a new tab and additional features not natively available.
Check out this video to see some of the easy to use, super useful features PowerPoint Labs enables.
A couple of my favorites include:
- Spotlight darkens all but a specified region on the slide, allowing you to easily focus your audience’s attention on a particular aspect.
Using Spotlight is easy. First, draw a shape to indicate the area which should be lit up – you can use any of PowerPoint’s included shapes, or even draw a freeform shape.
- Animate In Slide can be used to create slick animations within a slide, just like those shown below:
To use Animate In Slide, place a copy of the shape to be animated at each “stop” along the desired animation path. Next, select the shapes in the order to be animated (by Ctrl+clicking them), then click theAnimate In Slidebutton.
- Auto Crop allows you to easily cut out a section of an image on a slide without needing any additional image editing software.For more complex cut-outs, just draw multiple shapes, select all of them, then click
Crop To Shape.
The result of the above crop, with the shadow effect applied:
- http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pptlabs//gallery.html
Check out more details on what PowerPoint Labs can do on their website.
Mike Taylor 
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