When working with PowerPoint, I often found myself unintentionally select or move the elements which are meant to stick at their positions. I’m sure many PowerPoint designers can relate to this as I can see many posts on the internet asking how to lock objects in PowerPoint.
Just weeks ago I’ve stumbled upon this ‘Lock’ feature when right clicking on a shape. It’s also available through the Selection Pane.
As of the date I’m writing, this feature seems to be available to only accounts that joined the Insider Program. My account is on the Current Channel (Preview). Another account of mine which hasn’t joined the Insider Program does not provide this feature.
This is certainly another handy feature for PowerPoint designers – not sure when it will get rolled out to all Microsoft 365 subscribers though – I’ve checked What’s new for Office Insiders page and haven’t seen this Lock feature mentioned anywhere.
QuickQuick is a free & open source software packed with PowerPoint’s productivity tools for slides designers. It also allows you to assign keyboard hotkeys of your choice to over 1800 commands in Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Excel.
Copy & Paste Size and Position : For copying the size/position from from a shape, and pasting the size/position to other shapes. This also works with the radius of rectangle’s rounded corner.
Select Same: This makes it very easy to select everything that has the same fill color / outline color / shape type. Start by selecting one object, use the middle click to bring up the productivity tool UI, select the attribute(s) and click ‘Select’ button.
Copy Text : Copy text from selected items (shapes/text boxes/tables)
Quick Hide (& Show) : Directly hide the selected items without having to open the Selection Pane first. This way, it’s much easier that having to click through each element in the Selection Pane and hope that you select the right one!
Margin / Spacing toggles: Toggle text margins / paragraph spacing between zero/narrow/moderate/wide
Align / Distribute / Order : Quick access to commonly these used design actions
Hotkeys Mapper
Over 1,800 of PowerPoint and Excel commands you can assign keyboard shortcuts of your choice to.
Getting Started
Download and extract the files to your PC
Run the file QuickQuick.exe
If you see a MS Defender SmartScreen. Click at More info > Run anyway.
Notice the program in system tray icon. You can right click at this tray icon and quit the tool.
It is recommended that you enable the ‘Run at Windows Startup’ option so that you have the program and all hotkeys ready for use any time.
System Tray Menu
6. Super Tools: Super Tools is a compact GUI that offers a number of PowerPoint productivity tools .
Opening/Closing the Tools GUI: You can open or close the tool via Middle Click or Ctrl+Space anywhere in the PowerPoint program. There is also the AutoClose option, the second button from the GUI’s top right corner that if activated, the GUI automatically closes itself after you click a command button.
Help Tooltip: Hover your mouse over the button for 2 seconds to see the tooltip that guides you how to operate the command.
Commands Categories: The tools are categorized into 3 different tabs.
[1] Align / Order contains the Align & Distribute tools, Bring to Front, and Send to Back.
[2] Size / Pos contains the tools for copying & pasting size and position, rounded corner radius, etc.
[3] Shape / Text contains the Select Same tool, text margin toggle, paragraph spacing toggle, visibility tools, etc.
7. Hotkeys Mapper: To setup hotkeys for PowerPoint or Excel, right click at QuickQuick tray menu, choose Hotkeysfor Excel / Hotkeys for PowerPoint. You will see the Main Hotkeys Configuration popup window. This Hotkeys Configuration window shows all available actions you can assign hotkeys to.
Search with keyword(s) to filter for the command you’re looking to assign hotkey to.
Double click at the desired command to bring up the hotkey setup window. Press modifier key(s) and alphanumeric key (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+Shift+A / Alt+Shift+1, etc.) to setup your own hotkey.
To remove the hotkey, use the ‘Delete Hotkey’ button.
Click at Close & Apply Changes button to apply the configuration.
Go ahead and try the hotkeys in Excel / PowerPoint program.
Hotkey Configuration Window
Hotkey setup UI
System Requirements
Windows OS (tested on Windows 10 64 bit)
Microsoft Office for PC (tested on PowerPoint in MS Office Home 32 Bit – please let me know whether this works in Office 64 bit)
หากมีหน้าจอ MS Defender SmartScreen โชว์ขึ้นมา ให้เลือก More info > Run anyway
สัญลักษณ์ไอคอนของโปรแกรมจะไปโชว์อยู่ที่บริเวณ System Tray ตรงมุมขวาล่างของหน้าจอ Windows (หากไม่เห็น ให้คลิ้กปุ่มลูกศรขึ้น ก่อนหนึ่งครั้ง) โดยจากไอคอนนี้ สามารถคลิ้กขวาเพื่อดูเมนูเพิ่มเติมได้ เช่น การตั้งค่าคีย์ลัด การเลือกให้โปรแกรมรันอัตโนมัติทุกครั้งที่เปิดใช้งานคอมพิวเตอร์ (Run at Windows Startup) หรือ การปิดโปรแกรม (Exit)
แนะนำให้เลือกเปิด option ‘Run at Windows Startup’ เพื่อให้โปรแกรมและคีย์ลัดพร้อมต่อใช้งานทุกครั้งที่เปิดคอมพิวเตอร์
System Tray Menu
6. Super Tools: Super Tools เป็นหน้า GUI ที่มีปุ่มเครื่องมือและฟังก์ชั่นเสริมพิเศษเพื่อให้เราทำสไลด์ได้ง่ายขึ้น ไวขึ้น
ก่อนหนึ่งครั้ง) โดยจากไอคอนนี้ สามารถคลิ้กขวาเพื่อดูเมนูเพิ่มเติมได้ เช่น การตั้งค่าคีย์ลัด การเลือกให้โปรแกรมรันอัตโนมัติทุกครั้งที่เปิดใช้งานคอมพิวเตอร์ (Run at Windows Startup) หรือ การปิดโปรแกรม (Exit)
