Getting started with Power Pack

Start with one Power Pack tool, then use the sections below as a quick reference. If you haven’t installed it yet, start with Install Power Pack.

Power Pack adds a lot at once. The easiest way in is to learn one tool first. Replace with Image is the one most people reach for, then pick up the rest as you need them.

Open Power Pack

1. Open PowerPoint with the presentation you’re working on.
2. Click the Power Pack tab in the ribbon.
3. For the full feature reference at any time, click the Help button on the Power Pack tab.

Replace images with your own

Swap a set of placeholder or sample images for your own in one go. This is a good first tool to try.

1. Select one or more images in your slide.
2. Click Replace with Image.
3. Select a new image, or several images. Every selected image is replaced with the new one(s).
4. If you’re replacing more images than you provide (say six selected but three chosen), tick Repeat image sequence until all images are replaced to cycle through your images from the top until every one is filled.

The rest of the tools follow the same pattern: select some objects, click a button.

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Copy objects to other slides

1. Select the object(s) you want to copy.
2. Click Copy to Slides (labelled Copy to all Slides on the Mac ribbon).
3. Choose the slides to copy the object to, or select all.
4. Click OK.

Edit a copied object and click Copy to all Slides again to push the change everywhere. To take it back off, select the object, open the Copy to Slides dropdown, and click Remove from slides to clear it from every slide at once. Any object works except placeholders, which only live in a slide master.

Shuffle items

1. Select two or more objects on the slide.
2. Click Shuffle items.

With exactly two items selected they swap places. With more than two, each shape jumps to a random other position.

Arrange objects into a grid

1. Select the object(s) to arrange. One object gets duplicated into each cell, or select several objects.
2. Click Arrange to Grid.
3. Enter the number of rows and columns.
4. Enter the margin between rows.
5. Enter the margin between columns.

Every cell is the same size, matched to the biggest object, with each object centered. Run Change Shape Size first if you want all objects identically sized in the grid.

Insert images into placeholders

1. Click Add images into placeholders.
2. Select the images to add.
3. If there are more placeholders than images, tick Repeat image sequence so the sequence restarts and every placeholder is filled.
4. Click OK.

Images fill the placeholders in order, starting from the first slide. The preview can take a few seconds with this tool.

Export slides to images or a new presentation

1. In the slide panel on the left, select the slides to export (hold Ctrl to pick several).
2. Click Export and choose New presentation, JPG (1x–4x), or PNG (1x–4x).

New presentation drops the slides into a fresh file. JPG and PNG export at 1x–4x the original size into a folder you pick.

Make shapes the same size

1. Select two or more shapes.
2. Click Change Shape Size. The first shape you selected becomes the reference.

The other selected objects take on the reference object’s size. Use Keep Aspect Ratio on the shape size dropdown to resize while keeping each object’s own proportions, or choose to change only height or only width.

Resize objects to the slide size

1. Select the object(s) to resize.
2. Click Change to Slide Size.

Every selected object is resized to match the slide. Keep Aspect Ratio on the dropdown preserves proportions, and you can change only height or only width.

Change the slide size

1. Click Change Slide Size.
2. Pick a preset: A4, A3, or Letter (each portrait or landscape), Square (ideal for TPT covers), or Pinterest Pin size.

Add images as new slides

1. Click Add images as new slides on the Add Images button.
2. Click Add image(s) in the new window.
3. Click the images you want to add.
4. Choose Insert into the background or Set as background.
5. Click OK.

Power Pack adds one new slide per image, with the image either placed in the background or set as the slide background.

Crop a batch of images

1. Select the images to change.
2. Click Crop and choose Crop to Fit, Crop to Fill, or Crop None.

Crop to Fit fits the whole image inside the shape keeping its aspect ratio. Crop to Fill fills the shape keeping aspect ratio. Crop None stretches the image to fill the shape. It’s especially handy right after inserting images into placeholders, which PowerPoint auto-crops by default.

Lock and unlock objects

1. Select one or more objects.
2. Click Lock under the Lock/Unlock button.
3. When asked, choose whether to back up your PowerPoint first.

Choose Yes to save and create a backup before locking, or No to save and lock without a backup. Either way the file reopens on the same slide, and Cancel does nothing. Locked objects can’t be moved, rotated, or resized. To reverse it, select the locked objects and click Unlock (same backup prompt), or use Unlock all to clear every lock in the presentation.