Efficient Elements for presentations

Efficient Elements for presentations

– The Add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint

 

Interactive Feature Map

 

System Requirements

• Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 / 2010 / 2013 / 2016 / 2019 or Office 365 (32- or 64-bit)
• Microsoft Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 (32- or 64-bit)
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 or newer
• Shared Network Drive / SharePoint 2013 or newer (on-premise) or SharePoint Online (optional, only required for EE Sync)

 

Agenda Wizard

The Agenda Wizard helps you structure your presentations by adding agenda slides between topics:

• Calculate time slots or page numbers automatically
• Create multiple agendas for a single presentation, e.g. for multi-day-meetings
• Save space in long agendas by collapsing sub-items
• Easily reorganize your agenda – content slides will be sorted for you automatically
• The Agenda Wizard is 100% customizable to fit your company’s specific agenda layout!

 

Element Wizard

The Element Wizard provides you with a well-organized set of useful slide elements in an easy-to-navigate gallery structure:

• Pick from a selection of box layouts, process chains, Gantt charts, diagrams, maps, flags …
• Get a customized edition to include your company’s slide collection
• Use the My Elements feature to store your own elements for later use and share them with your colleagues

 

Master Wizard

Insert/remove elements in/from the slide master with a single click of a button, such as

• Confidentiality indications
• Status indications
• Logos or images
• …

 

Text Wizard

Insert text snippets or special characters from the Text Wizard library

• Get a customized edition to include text snippets relevant for your company, e.g. addresses, mission statement, conventions for numbers/dates/abbreviations…
• Use the My Texts feature to store your own text snippets for later use and share them with your colleagues

 

Format Wizard

Format and/or position selected objects based on a Format Wizard template:

• Possible predefined formats range from a position or a font size to a combination of most of the format attributes available in PowerPoint
• Get a customized edition to include predefined formats according to your company’s style guide
• Use the My Formats feature to store your own formats for later use and share them with your colleagues

 

Map Wizard

Insert and edit maps of all countries in the world:

• Insert high quality maps: World, UN regions, countries – with or without subdivisions
• Use Microsoft Excel to color or label any of the countries / states within the maps – including conditional formatting
• Embed or link your data source in Microsoft Excel

 

Smart Elements

Insert smart elements that you can edit interactively on the slide:

• Harvey Balls (quarters or percentage)
• Traffic Lights (color and orientation)
• Percent Bar (percentage)
• Evaluation (stages and evaluation)
• Thermometer (percentage)

 

Default Bullets | Numbering

If you have trouble with getting the bullets in your presentations to match your corporate design, you will love this feature. One click and your bullets will appear as they should.

• Turn bullets/numbering on | off …
• Increase | decrease indent level (works across cells of tables as well)
• Apply default bullets/numbering format

 

Manage Your Own | Your Clients' Templates

We can integrate all the templates and styles you might need.

• Pick the desired template from a list with preview
• Set the PowerPoint start-up template
• Change the template of the current presentation to reuse slides for a different customer
• Use our update service to add templates/styles later – your colleagues will be updated automatically

E-Mail | Save Selected Slides

Select slides in the slide sorter and save them or attach them to a new email either as a PowerPoint file or a PDF file.

• Save to file / attach to e-mail / copy to clipboard
• Selected slides or complete presentation
• .pptx / PDF / protected PDF
• Automatic file names incl. topic, version, date and author
• Review and edit file properties before saving

 

Check Presentations

Check your presentation for compliance with your company’s corporate design and interactively fix any issues with just one click. More than 25 rules – and your custom rules if needed:

• Corporate colors
• Corporate fonts
• Bullet formats
• Orphaned footnotes
• Double or missing spaces
• Proofing languages

 

Additional clean-up features – just one click away:

• Remove all speech notes to avoid inadvertently conveying confidential information
• Remove all animations
• Remove unused designs from the current presentation to reduce file size

 

Align Position

Align all selected objects do the respective edge of the Master. The Master is always the object that you selected last. If only one object is selected, the object is aligned to the respective edge of the slide.

 

Dock Objects

Move the selected objects in the respective direction until they touch the Master. The Master is always the object that you selected last.

 

Align in Matrix | Stack Objects

Align the selected objects in a matrix or stack them horizontally / vertically so that they touch each other. The alignment / stacking takes place in the order of selection.

Swap Objects

Swap two or more selected objects. You can specify which dimensions of the objects should be swapped, and whether also the layer position should be swapped.

 

Slice or Multiply Shape

• Slice or multiply the selected shape in an arbitrary number of rows and columns
• Define the horizontal and vertical spacing precisely.

Align in Table

Align the selected objects (e.g. icons, flags, harvey balls, traffic lights) relative to the table cell they are (roughly) positioned over.

 

Align Size

Align the size of all selected objects to the size of the Master, either for width, height, or both. The Master is always the object that you selected last.

 

Stretch Objects

Stretch the selected objects to the far edge of the Master. The Master is always the object that you selected last.

Fill Space Between Objects

Fill the gap between all selected objects and the Master (if any). The Master is always the object that you selected last.

 

Magic Resizer

Resize the selected objects to a given absolute or relative size. You can choose to which attributes (size, line weight, font size etc.) the resizing factor should be applied.

 

Align Angles

Align the angles of all selected block arrows to the Master. The Master is always the object that you selected last.

Align Process Chain

Align the selected block arrows to form a process chain. The Master will define the angle, the position and sizing for all other block arrows in the process chain. The gaps between block arrows are filled from left to right and from top to bottom.

Adjust Pentagon Header

Adjust the header boxes of headed Conclusion boxes (standard elements in the Element Wizard). Select a pentagon (block arrow) and the corresponding header box before using this feature.

Align Block Arrows

Apply a standard style to all selected block arrows or define your own metrics based on the Master. The Master is always the object that you selected last.

 

Align Rounded Rectangles

Define the radius for the selected rounded rectangles or use the Master object’s value. The Master is always the object that you selected last.

Custom Color Palettes

Use color palettes 100% tailored to your corporate design and easily distinguish all colors by groups, names, or RGB values.

 

Color Picker | Convert Colors

• Pick and use colors from anywhere on screen
• Convert all theme colors in current selection to RGB colors to make the colors independent of the slide master and theme used.
• Convert all matching RGB colors in current selection to theme colors to automatically adapt to the slide master and theme used.

Color Bar

All fill, line and font colors at your fingertips with a single click.

Split | Merge Text Boxes

Split the selected text box at the cursor position to create two separate text boxes.

Merge the selected text boxes in a single text box. The text boxes will be merged in the order of selection.

 

Hide Selected Objects Temporarily

The objects will maintain their horizontal, vertical and layer position while hidden. Hidden objects can be shown again with the command Unhide Hidden Objects. This is particularly useful if you have a lot of overlapping or layered objects on a slide. You can easily get rid of everything that is in the way.

 

Navigation

Navigate long presentations quickly with the Navigation functions: Go to previous / next slide in history or enter slide number.

Expert Tools

Save even more time with our expert tools: You may not use them on a daily basis but they will be invaluable when you need them.

Language | User Interface Settings

Pick your preferred language. Currently available languages are English, French, German, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese.

Adjust the user interface to suit your needs:

• Basic – display only the most important functions
• Expert – the default setting displaying all functions
• Admin – includes additional functions for customizing Efficient Elements for presentations

 

Benefits

 

• Time Saving

Finally time to take care of your real job instead of wasting time with office applications.

• Take advantage of ready-to-use slide templates
• Let the Wizards to the work for you
• Get done with less clicks thanks to the optimized user interface
• Save an average of 2 hours per week

 

• Corporate Design

It has never been easier to comply with your company’s corporate design guidelines.

• Generate agendas derived from your company’s agenda templates
• Insert slide elements from your customized library
• Select colors from a palette defined by your style guide
• Apply your style guide with one-click-formatting
• Format standard bullets to match your style guide

• Quality

Get professional results of your work satisfying the highest quality standards.

• Be more precise with the Efficient Elements Master Shape Concept
• Use slide templates and elements that have been minutely prepared for your PowerPoint master
• Use the Format Wizard to place objects on predefined exact positions
• Create a summary of your action titles to check your storyline

 

License Models

 

We offer three different license models for our products. Most of our customers choose the Corporate License as it offers the best value.

 

	Single User License	Multi User License	Corporate License
License Users	Single Named User	Multiple Named Users	All Employees
License Period	1 Year
License Expiration	Individual	Common
License Key	Individual	Common (can be included in installer package)
Benefits	Flexibility	1. Additional users can be added during the license period at monthly prices 2. All licenses can be extended at once	1. Attractive pricing model by user groups 2. Flatrate, even if additional employees are hired during the license period 3. Reduced effort for ordering licenses (only one order per year) 4. Easier license management & software deployment

 

Software Deployment Options

 

As a standard, we offer two different types of Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) packages:

 

Per-User Installation

• Installation for currently logged in Windows user only
• Default installation path: Local Application Data
• No administrative privileges required
• Automatic updates (optional)
   

Per-Machine Installation

• Installation for all users on a machine
• Default installation path: Program Files (x86)
• Administrative privileges required 
• Updates via SCCM or similar deployment tools