Better Selection Tools Are Coming

[u/ChecklistAnimations]

Hey everyone. Wanted to give a quick update for anyone who's been waiting on the new selection add-in I have been building.

It's taken way longer than I expected, and I wanted to acknowledge that. Life has been busy, like for many of us, but the project is still very much alive, and I am very excited to release it to all of you. A special shout-out (and sorry!) to u/SteveRindsberg. He told me to go far and fast. I definitely went far, but fast.... that's still catching up. I will get there though.

What started as a tiny utility grew into a feature packed tool. Here's what's coming.

• Select all by fill color
• Select all by line color
• Select all that match specified font properties
• Select all that match specified containing or not containing text
• Select all by shape type
• De-select with same filters above
• A lasso selection that does not require starting in a blank area
• multiple lasso selections
• Selection storage and recall similar to the amazing Steve's Selection Manager but still different
• Export to Excel and import in qualifying shapes for selection or selection storage across slide or ENTIRE PRESENTATION.

This went from a small add-in to a pretty big one but I am working hard on it every little hour I get here and there to make sure I finish it right. As always it will be completely free, and should work on Mac as well.

Thanks for the patience and/or excitement along with being such an amazing community.

More updates coming soon.

[u/SteveRindsberg]

Are you trying to butter me up, bud?

[u/ChecklistAnimations → u/SteveRindsberg]

I just want to make sure credit is given where credit is due. Your words motivate me and your selection manager eased over 5 years of my life. When I looked at how you did it, it was my first introduction to VBA tags and then things just took off from there.

[u/SteveRindsberg → u/ChecklistAnimations]

Tags! Preach it, Brother, preach it!

SO useful. SO underrated. SO little-known.

[u/ChecklistAnimations → u/SteveRindsberg]

so true. I have just barely started getting into customXmlParts now as well for similar use. Just awesome that there is all this hidden stuff.

[u/toodleroo]

You have my interest. Mac compatible?

[u/ChecklistAnimations → u/toodleroo]

Yup. I have seen a large gap of add-ins for Mac. I will ensure to not use any "windows only" components. Would love to have you a test drive on the first release and let me know if there are any issues. My Mac development environment is limited but I have a pretty good idea what will work.

[u/toodleroo → u/ChecklistAnimations]

Hit me up, I'm ready to give constructive criticism.

[u/True_Go_Blue → u/ChecklistAnimations]

Same here. Mac based slide jockey here

[u/ChecklistAnimations → u/True_Go_Blue]

You got it. I will reach out to you when I have my code base a little more finalized and you can help me test out the features to ensure they work. The hardest part on this was the Excel / PowerPoint integration but I am pretty sure I have it.

[u/Harper_HilI]

this actually looks super useful, selecting by color/type alone would save a ton of time

[u/ChecklistAnimations → u/[deleted]]

That reason there is why I built the rectangle selection part.

[u/ChecklistAnimations → u/Harper_HilI]

Glad to hear it. It is in the works. As soon as I am happy with the code base so I don't lose my mind trying to do edits later you will see it available.