How to Use the "Slides" Group of the Time Savers Add-in for PowerPoint

Please note: Some changes may have been made to the Time Savers Add-in for PowerPoint since the making of this video.

The “Slides” group is part of the “TS Content” tab (previously part of the “TS Design” tab, formerly called “Time Savers 1”) of the Time Savers Add-in for PowerPoint.

The tools in this part of the Time Savers Add-in make it possible for you to:

Quickly paste objects to multiple slides.
Change the slide size with the click of a button (including 6×6 inch square, 10×10 inch square, landscape letter, portrait letter, landscape A4, portrait A4, 10×15 inch Pinterest, Widescreen).
Insert backgrounds on a bunch of different slides all in one go.
Pin slides in order to prevent PowerPoint from jumping to the previous or next slide when scrolling up or down while editing.

Paste to selected slides:

First, you need to select and copy the shapes/pictures etc that you wish to paste to multiple slides.
Next, select the slides you wish to paste the objects to.
Finally, click the ‘Paste to selected slides’

Size:

Change the slide size quickly with the click of a button.
Default: Portrait letter (8.5 x 11 inches)
This function should only be used on a new presentation – before you add any content, as the content will be resized when you change the slide size.

Backgrounds:

Quickly and easily add your chosen images or shapes as backgrounds to slides in your presentation.
If you have shapes selected, these shapes will be added as backgrounds to slides in your presentation.
If you have no shapes selected, a window will open so you can select the images you want to use as backgrounds.

Backgrounds Image Sizing Options:

You can choose how you want your images to be sized when they are inserted as backgrounds (retain size/resize/stretch)

Backgrounds Images Placement Options:

You can choose where you want your pictures or shapes to be placed.

On Slides:

The pictures or shapes will be placed on the normal slides as background images.

On Slide Master Layouts:

The pictures or shapes will be placed on slide master layouts background images and those layouts will then be assigned to the slides.
Please note: This option will not work if you choose to add backgrounds to selected slides. The pictures or shapes will then be added as slide backgrounds instead.

As Slide Backgrounds:

The pictures or shapes will be added as backgrounds for the slides.

Backgrounds Slides Options:

You can choose what slides you want to give backgrounds.

New Slides:

New slides will be created and the background pictures or shapes will be added to the new slides.

Selected Slides:

The background pictures or shapes will be added to the selected slides, in the order in which they were selected. If you have no slides selected, the backgrounds will be added to new slides instead.

Backgrounds Orientation Options:

Orientation

You can choose if you want the background images to be rotated automatically to best fit on the slides.
If the background pictures or shapes are a different orientation to the slides, they will automatically be rotated to the same orientation as the slides.
Please note: This setting will only be applied if the picture or shape has the same, or very similar, aspect ratio as the slide, with a different orientation.

Background Images Options:

Set resolution

You can set the resolution (in dpi) for the slide backgrounds.
When you have the ‘As Slide Backgrounds’ option selected, it may sometimes be necessary to export the pictures (depending on your sizing and rotation settings) or shapes as images before inserting them as backgrounds.
If your resolution and slide size cause the background images to be greater than 3000px, and you have the ‘Max 3000px’ option selected, then the images will be exported at the maximum resolution, while still keeping the image smaller than 3000px.

Max 3000px

Limit slide background image sizes to 3000px.
On some older versions of PowerPoint, images greater than 3000px in either direction may come out a bit messed up. If this happens, it is recommended that you keep this option selected.
This will export the slides at the maximum resolution, while still keeping the image smaller than 3000px.

Image format