Slidewise’s Font Management is My Favorite Feature! – A Look Back to July 2022
Font management has unfortunately not improved in PowerPoint since this July 2022 post. As such, the Slidewise PowerPoint Add-in still is the most robust font management solution for PowerPoint – and it has gotten better since the original post!
Neuxpower’s Slidewise PowerPoint add-in has many fantastic tools. When initially testing it, the font audit and management functionality instantly won me over and quickly was installed on all computers at TLC Creative Services!
In this sample demo deck, the Slidewise Font Audit shows there are 5 fonts used in presentation.
Doing a review of the content master slide confirms Arial is the only font that should be used throughout the presentation.
With this information, Slidewise makes it incredibly quickly to consolidate the fonts in the presentation. In a few clicks all instances of Calibri and Century Gothic are changed to Arial by using the the 3-dot menu and REPLACE FONTS function.
From the REPLACE FONTS dialog, choose the REPLACE WITH font (Arial in this deck) and REPLACE FONTS button. Note: the presentation will close, process and then reopen to the same slide. This is a bit unsettling (to have your work file close), but know it is part of the process.
For Century Gothic, I wanted to see where it is used to determine if it should remain or go. Click any slide in the Slidewise list and PowerPoint jumps to that slide and the text box of that font selected (which is amazing!). Clicking through the Century Gothic instances, all are slide content that should use the theme font, Arial. An easy and quick update using the Replace Fonts dialog.
Investigating the Tw Cen MT font, it is the Master Handout text boxes. First, this is a detail level that would virtually never be identified without the Slidewise Font Audit. These fonts can also be updated to the theme font, Arial.
In a very short time every font used in the presentation is consolidated to a single font – Arial.
Tip: review all slides to confirm line breaks, text fitting in shapes, and overall text formatting has not been adversely impacted!
Get more info about Slidewise here.
-Troy @ TLC
This is from our Look Back series, rediscovering previous blog posts with relevant PowerPoint tips, tricks and examples. The original post from July 29th, 2022 can be viewed here.
