Release note V6.9.28 - 09/04/2025

New Features:

• A new portal setting is now enabled by default, setting Microsoft Print to PDF as the default printer. Setting can be disabled at both account and user levels.
• [Preview Integrator] Track changes: Users can now accept/reject individual changes
• [Preview Integrator] Track changes: Users can now track changes of an excel link
• [Preview Integrator] Track changes: Users can’t track changes for TOC shapes & slides
• [Preview Integrator] Track changes: Users can now enjoy the new icon in the ribbon.
• [Preview Integrator] Users can now insert endnotes in their presentations. Endnote indexes are added as hyperlinks, allowing users to seamlessly navigate between superscripts and the endnotes slide.

Bug fixes: 

• Clean no longer fails when the XL file contains names starting with “_xlfn” and “_xlpm”
• Percentage cycle dropdown: Admins can now have a percentage in the format of the cell without having this format automatically sent to the percentage dropdown

Release note V6.9.27 - 26/03/2025

New Features:

• Users will experience better font size consistency after conversion
• Users can now use F4 shortcut for all UpSlide formatting features (including number drop-down format)
• Users can now highlight XL links in word
• “WPF Tax”: Historically, the first contextual menu / toaster appearing took more time to appear than the next ones. This is no longer the case. As a result, the settings window appears 2 times faster.
• Admins can enjoy a new look of the Signature editor in the Portal
• Admins can enjoy a new portal look
• Admins can now share templates only for specific user groups
• Licence Managers can now setup a “parent” Tone of Voice to be applied to all AI assistant prompts
• Users will experience refreshed toasters depending on the type of message appearing
• Licence Managers can now setup their custom prompt that the AI assistant can use
• Users can benefit from improved results on Translate & Consense prompts
• Users will see a warning detecting the error before links are trying to be updated
• User can now add endnotes to their decks
• User will be able to compare two PPT decks / track changes (tables are not yet supported)
• IT benefits from a new system to auto-update (BITS removed)

Bug fixes:

• CAGR Arrow: in waterfall charts, CAGR arrows are shown above the bars.
• Library: Locked Slide issue when empty image placeholders are available.
• Logo Finder: See more button shows infinite loader when clicked on with the keyboard.

Hotfixes:

• 6.9.27.3: Fix excel link update performances issue.

Release note V6.9.26 - 12/03/2025

New Features:

• Autocolor: Users can now modify the colors of the autocolor feature. 

• Footnotes: Footnote numbering can now be customized to either continue across the presentation or restart on each slide. This setting is available in Presentation Options.

• AI Glossary: You can now generate a glossary in any PowerPoint presentation, regardless of the number of abbreviations.

• Logo Finder: New pop-up to improve usage.

Bug fixes: 

• Smart Align no longer throws an exception when used in Slide Master. 

Release note V6.9.25 - 19/02/2025

New Features:

• Library: Possibility to publish worksheet with VBA code inside the worksheet
• TOC Outline: Users can now enjoy a new UI/UX

• Footnotes: You can now customize the superscript format in Presentation Options.

• Excel Link Information: The window now includes an 'Export Options' section, displaying all Office and UpSlide properties at the time of export.

Bug fixes: 

• Colors Toolbar: Theme colors now load correctly when opening a new template.

• Dynamic Library: Users can now see the number of selected logos within the insert button

Release note V6.9.24 - 04/02/2025

New Features:

• Logo finder: better keyboard navigation and add a new shortcut to open the pane (Ctrl Alt L).
• Smart Track: Performance improved for precedents analysis.

• AI Assistant: Now generally available in PowerPoint, the AI Assistant helps users condense, simplify, or translate text. Access it with Ctrl + Shift + L (requires UpSlide AI deployment).

• Footnotes: When modifying a footnote shape or option in Presentation Options, you can now apply the changes to all existing footnotes.

Bug fixes: 

• Publish button position: moved back to the right side of the ribbon
• Footnotes: When a superscript is inserted at the end of a paragraph, a space is automatically added to prevent subsequent text from being in superscript.

• Footnotes: Refreshing footnotes now preserves formatting and hyperlinks within the footnote shape.  

Hotfixes:

• 6.9.24.2: Revert Microsoft.Identity.Client.NativeInterop version.

Release note V6.9.23 - 22/01/2025

New features

• Smart Track: Possibility to switch from dependents to precedents directly from the smart track pane.

• Pitchly: UpSlide retrieves Pitchly template within the DL pane

Bug fixes: 

• CAGR arrows are now resized correctly when using 'Resize & Export' for charts.

Release note V6.9.22 - 08/01/2025

New Features:

• Users can now log in to Azure OpenAI Services from UpSlide using device ID authentication.

Bug fixes: 

• Custom shapes are no longer inserted twice in Slide Master or custom layouts. 
• Publish button position: moved again on the left side of the ribbon

Release note V6.9.21 - 18/12/2024

New Features:

• Admins can now set and manage visibility levels for Custom Shapes and  Table Styles to apply to all templates, the active template, or personal use.

• End-users can now easily distinguish between brand compliant Custom Shapes and Table Styles and user-defined ones thanks to a visual clue.
• Smart Track: Users can now see which cell is tracked by highlighting the tracked cell and the focus cell in the smart track tree

Bug fixes: 

• Changing Waterfalls stacking options only affects the active waterfall (and not anymore the duplicated ones)

Hotfixes:

• 6.9.21.3: if the admin edits one of the Table Styles and publishes the Templates & Styles changes, users on earlier versions no more have a broken table style (they did when the admin did those changes in 6.9.21.1 or 6.9.21.2).
• 6.9.21.4: allow the use of Word templates even if a template thumbnail is missing.

Release note V6.9.20 - 03/12/2024

New Features:

• Dynamic Libraries: Implemented a short-lived cache to only download the same image once per PPT session

• Smart Track: New UI (icons) and new shortcuts window
• Logo Finder:  Automatically place the logos when changing area 

• Excel Link Manager: Users now have an 'Update with latest workbook' option to restrict source lookup to the workbook used in the last update.

   

Release note V6.9.19 - 20/11/2024

New Features:

• Formatting Tools: A pane that provides one-click access to essential native and UpSlide formatting features in PowerPoint is now available to all users.

• Formatting Tools: Users can now share feedback, especially on missing features, via a dedicated button in the pane.
• Smart Align for Right, Top, and Bottom (Ctrl + Alt + Arrow) is now availabe to all users.
• Resize & Distribute: 
  • It is now available to all users.
  • Users can now customize the gap between selected shapes 
• Logo Finder: When user does a multi-search, when the user expand a company it will close automatically the other expander
• Disabled keys options: possibility to disable F1, Insert and Num lock
• Excel: Possibility to add multiple rows or columns at once
• Excel Formatting: Possibility for the user to cycle by number format per sub-category (General, Currency, Percent, Multiple and Dates)
• Excel Formatting: Possibility for the user to cycle by font size and font colors

Bug fixes: 

• TOC options no longer disabled when opening a new presentation.
• Select Similar Shapes now works in edition mode. 
  
  

Hotfixes

• 6.9.19.2:
  • Excel Number formats : Restore all number formats management in a global list
• 6.9.19.3:
  • • Excel Number formats : Fix shortcuts enabling for classical licence users

Release note V6.9.18 - 28/10/2024

New Features:

• Colors Toolbar: Access and apply fill, outline, and font color from the same place, now available to all users. 
• Logo Finder:
  • New layout pane is now available for every users with the option
  • The shopping cart is cleared when a user inserts one logo
  • Cache implemented

Preview mode: 

• Resize & Distribute selected shapes horizontally or vertically across the slide.
  
  

Tech:

• Upgrade .Net version from 4.5 to 4.8

Bug fixes: 

• Lock slides banner no longer freezes the UI when opening PPT.

• Applying 'No Outline' to a placeholder in the Colors toolbar no longer causes it to collapse.

• Using the shortcut for a disabled UpSlide feature in the Ribbon or Formatting Tools no longer triggers an error message.

• You can now apply margin features in Slide Master mode.

• Duplicated shapes in charts are now removed, improving Excel link performance.

   

Hotfixes

• 6.9.18.3:
  • Some features in the Arrange group (swap shapes for example) were disabled after inserting tombstones from the Dynamic Libraries
  • If Stale Value Formatting was enabled in Excel, on some computers cells were exported/updated with a strikethrough when using the Excel link.
  • When using both UpSlide and Thinkcell, Group/Ungroup shapes in PowerPoint was not working.

 

Release note V6.9.17 - 14/10/2024

New Features:

• Contact support: For our customers whose category one tickets are managed internally, a URL instead of an email address is possible.

Preview mode: 

• The Formatting Tools pane provides one-click access to key native and UpSlide formatting features in PowerPoint. 

Integrator:

• Logo Finder: Users can now modify the size of a logo directly from the layout pane
• Logo Finder: Logos resize to fit available space
• Logo Finder: Trash button in the selection zone to delete a logo directly from the layout pane

Bug fixes: 

• "Select Similar Shapes" works even when the cursor is inside the shape. 

• Excel Link Manager: The section filter is now hidden when the presentation does not include a Table of Contents."

• Applying a color through the Color toolbar now preserves the outline weight.

• Power BI Link: Scrollbars will not appear in exports anymore, especially in the case of multi-row card visuals
• Logo Finder: No preview is available when a user searches for a logo
• Additive templates: Additive Templates not updated when the template is stored in the Library

Hotfixes

• 6.9.17.3: Reintroducing some missing features in the layout group

Release note V6.9.16 - 19/09/2024

New Features:

• Pitchly: Possibility to handle currency field
• Dynamic templates: Add the possibility to save last entered values.
• Clean: A new 'Optimize charts for link update' option allows users to delete all invisible objects on charts, speeding up Excel link updates.
• Excel Formatting: Users can now apply predefined Excel cell heights and widths through a dedicated dropdown.

Preview mode: 

• Implemented Smart Align for Right, Top, and Bottom (Ctrl + Alt + Arrow).

Integrator:

• Logo Finder: Users can now arrange their logos by columns and rows
• Logo Finder: Users can now switch position between logos directly from the layout pane

Bug fixes: 

• Users don't have access to templates stored in the library.
• Users can now apply a paragraph style to an empty shape or textbox. 

Hotfixes:

• 6.9.16.2: Fixed a bug where Dynamic Library filters on fields of type "currency" would always be active, reducing the amount of items returned by the search.

Release note V6.9.15 - 10/09/2024

New Features:

• Margins: Added a new feature in the Arrange dropdown to set custom margins. 
• Pasting a web address onto text in PowerPoint (Ctrl + V) now creates a hypertext link (in the same way as in Notion).
• Sharepoint Permissions using Selected Sites (POC).

Preview mode: 

• Smart Align Left (Ctrl + Alt + left arrow): The first click aligns the selection with the leftmost shape. Subsequent clicks align with the next shape to the left. The final click aligns the selection with the left edge of the slide.

Integrator:

• Logo Finder: Users can now add a new area to distribute their logo directly from the Layout Pane.

Bug fixes: 

• Finalize: Convert a presentation to PDF: all images are now correctly displayed. 
• TOC: Weird behavior with a specific section title on a divider when refreshing the TOC.
• Getty Images: Integration freeze PPT.

 

Release note V6.9.14 - 26/08/2024

New Features:

• Logo Finder: Users can now search multiple logos at once.
• Custom Shapes: Users can now replace a custom shape in the "Manage Custom Shapes" window with the shape currently selected on the slide.

Preview mode: 

• Colors Toolbar: Users can now enable the option 'Open when PowerPoint starts.' When selected, the Colors Toolbar will automatically open each time a new PowerPoint document is launched.

Integrators only

• Logo Finder: Users can now sort alphabetically the logos.

Bug fixes: 

• Using Smart Painter in Slide Master mode no longer causes PowerPoint to crash."

   

Release note V6.9.13 - 08/08/2024

New Features:

• Logo Finder: Users can now switch between the search and layout pane of the Logo Finder.
• Templates: Admins need to close their POTX file to have the publish button available/enabled.
• Smart Format: The gap width and series overlap settings defined in Smart Format now apply to combo charts.

Integrators only

• Logo Finder: Integrators now have access to the new Layout pane. For now, only the Selection section has been developed. Integrators can now see which logos are inside a placeholder directly from the Layout pane. 

Hotfixes:

• 6.9.13.1: Fixed bug: Smart Align shortcut overriding native "Ctrl + left arrow" navigation (moving from word to word) when inside a text range.

Release note V6.9.12 - 29/07/2024

New Features:

• Outdated content toaster: Users can now replace the outdated content directly from the outdated content toaster by clicking on replace.
• Logo Finder: Users can now delete all the logo selection by clicking on the clear button.
• Ctrl + Alt + B: Users can now use this shortcut in to toggle between Header and Body fonts in any PowerPoint template.
• XL Link is now compatible with the Box file sharing solution. 

Release note V6.9.11 - 11/07/2024

New Features:

• Logo Finder: Users can now use the logo finder arrange pane while selecting one logo.
• Logo Finder: Users can now see the current selection of logos while they are looking for another logos
• Custom Shapes: Users can now insert a custom shape into several slide master layouts at once.
• Applying Excel SmartFormat ensures a 100% series overlap for stacked bars and columns, overriding Smart Format settings to prevent irregular outcomes. 

Integrators only

• Dynamic Library: Integrators can now choose to have an ampersand at the end of a sequence of variables

Release note V6.9.10 - 27/06/2024

New Features:

• Getty Images: Users with a Getty Image account will now be able to log in and use Getty Images from PowerPoint.

• Excel Link Manager: Users now have the Excel Link Manager enabled by default, with the option to switch back to Update All.

• Similar Shapes: When selecting two or more shapes, the feature automatically identifies and selects shapes with common attributes.

• Colors Toolbar: Access and apply fill, outline, and font color from the same place, now available in preview mode.

• Simple Waterfalls: Connectors will no longer appear in simple waterfalls.

• Paragraph Styles: Applying a paragraph style now removes common text formatting but preserves formatting specific to parts of the text.

• Custom Shapes: Admins can now view changes to Custom Shapes in the Publish window.

 

Release note V6.9.9 - 13/06/2024

New Features:

• Margins: Added 2 new features in the Arrange dropdown to remove margins or apply default margins, respectively. 
• CAGR: it is now possible to insert intermediate CAGR arrows on Excel charts.
• AI: New option to activate the AI Glossary from the portal.
• Added tracking for the number of tokens exchanged with LLM when using the AI Glossary.
• TOC Options (Advanced options): Admins can now select for which layout the pagination will not count.
• Logo Finder: When a user requests a logo by adding the URL and the logo is unavailable, the user can now access a form to request manual input.
• Favorite Feature: Users now have access to the favorite feature.

Hotfixes:

• 6.9.9.3 (25 June 2024):
  • UpSlide add-in dlls signing was accidentally removed. Now they are signed again.

 

Release note V6.9.8 - 05/06/2024

New Features:

• Library: Add "chevrons" next to the library name to improve the UX/UI and give guidance to the user if he wants to collapse a library
• XL Link: Up to 3x improvement in performance when updating workbooks with a large number of charts.
• Similar Shapes: A feature that selects all similar shapes based on user-checked criteria (type, height, size, color).
• Outlook Signatures: Admins can desactivate for users to be able to change their assigned signatures 

Hotfixes:

• 6.9.8.1 (28 May 2024):
  • Select similar shapes:
    • Better distinguishes between shape types (e.g. rectangle versus circle)
    • Only one window can be open at a time
    • If a grouped shape is selected, an error message is now displayed
  • Color toolbar: fill color can now be applied to a child shape of a Smart Art.
• 6.9.8.3 (4 June 2024):
  • Excel - PowerPoint/Word link: when the Excel file contained chart sheets, it was sometimes impossible to update some UpSlide links.
• 6.9.8.4 (25 June 2024):
  • UpSlide add-in dlls signing was accidentally removed. Now they are signed again.

Release note V6.9.7 - 21/05/2024

New Features:

• Logo Finder: Users can now report a logo if they consider it inaccurate.
• TOC Options: Admins can now modify or create a new TOC on their own.
• Excel Theme: Admins can now set up to 80 border styles in Excel, increased from the previous limit of 50.
• Excel Link Manager: Added a feedback window for users switching back to Update All.
• Excel Clean: Added option to remove named ranges containing errors ('#REF', '#N/A') and an option to remove Factset and CapitalIQ names.

Integrator Only

• Favorite: users can now search for an item within the favorite pane via the search bar

Release note V6.9.6 - 13/05/2024

New Features:

• Help Dropdown: we have changed the "rate us" button to "Submit feedback"  to encourage our users to tell us how they feel and if they have any ideas for features

Integrator Only

• Favorite:
  • Improve performance when opening the pane
  • Toaster appears when a user add an item as favorite

Hotfixes:

• 6.9.6.2 (13 May 2024):
  • As an administrator, clicking on Word templates no longer triggers the display of button "Publish changes" in the ribbon.

Release note V6.9.5 - 19/04/2024

New Features:

• Excel Link Manager: Users can now update one or more links from multiple slides or workbooks/worksheets, rather than just all the links in a slide, worksheet or workbook.
• Outlook signatures: Users can choose with signature to asign to each category of emails within the task pane 
• Outlook signatures: Signatures are now compatible with Outlook for iPhone. 

Integrator Only

• Colors toolbar:
  • In addition to theme and custom colors, users can now display theme colors variations.
  • Users can choose the position of the Colors toolbar: they can dock it to the right, to the left or un-dock it.

Hotfixes:

• 6.9.5.6 (25 Apr 2024):
  • The dynamic libraries tombstones can have borders again.
  • Right click on multiselection in library allows to delete elements and manage tags again.

Release note V6.9.4 - 04/04/2024

New Features:

• Logo Finder is not compatible with Office 2013
• Having an admin option gives access to the Essential licenses and modeling tools
• Users can create custom shapes from grouped shapes (hotfix beta 6.9.3)

Internal preview

• Colors: users can now access theme and custom colors through a user-friendly window that lets them see all the colors in one place and apply them with a single click
• Library: New favorite Pane
• Logo Finder: Possibility to insert multiple logo into one placeholder (logos are resized to fit into the placeholder)
• AI Glossary: users can automatically generate a glossary of abbreviations. They can update the glossary while retaining their manual modifications.

Release note V6.9.3 - 21/03/2024

New Features:

• Custom Shapes, which replace Shape Styles, allow users to save and insert into slides or layouts a shape with predefined size, formatting, position and text. Admins can publish custom shapes to all users.
• The Clean wait window now displays progress (worksheet x out of y) and the Clean operation can be canceled if takes too long. 
• The time required to update an individual XL link is reduced by up to 20%.
• Locked Slides: Admins can now unlock a slide with a single click
• UpSlide is now compatible with Azure China

Preview

• Export as PPT table: users no longer have their initial export deleted when they export a second table on top of the 1st.

Integrator Only

• Possibility to add an item from the PPT library as a favorite

Bugs

• Impossible to delete / rename or select shapes or slides in the library using keyboard shortcuts

Release note V6.9.2 - 07 Mar 2024

New Features:

• Logo finder: Users now have suggestions when typing the logo name.
• Logo finder: New UI Pane and button to request a logo.
• Library: Admins can now access the "Display in cache" button.
• Library: UpSlide can now authenticate to SharePoint hosted on a 21Vianet tenant.
• TOC: Adding a 0 before the section number is now compatible with reminders and breadcrumbs.
• Implementation of a new server parameter allowing clients to choose between displaying waterfall charts intermediate data in the same sheet as the chart or in a separate worksheet (default).

Release note V6.9.1 - 22 Feb 2024

New Features:

• Excel Link Manager: Users now have a checkbox to select all values in a filter.
• Send & Finalize: Users can now send both formats (PPTX and PDF) using the "Send" or "Finalize" feature.
• Library: Users can now insert a slide from a deck
• Outlook Signatures: Admins can now decide via the portal which signature campaign is send as priority to users 
• Outlook Signatures: The signatures campaign page has been redesigned 

Hotfixes:

• 6.9.1.4 (01 Mar 2024):
  • The Excel clean feature can be used after the library pane is open.
• 6.9.1.3 (28 Feb 2024):
  • Can delete, rename or select shapes and slides in the library using keyboard shortcuts.
  • Can use the Excel Clean feature.

Release note V6.9.0 - 14 Feb 2024

New Features:

• Admins can now set column borders plot area border.
• Admins can now use the advanced publish window to be able to lock and/or choose which slides they want to link to their source.
• Admins can now use the new replace window to be able to lock and/or choose which slides they want to link to their source.
• The Clean is now more performant (up to 2 times faster to perform a Clean operation). 

Release note V6.8.47 - 15/01/2024

Bugs fixed:

• SmartFormat application no longer deletes the title formula from a chart.

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.46 - 02/01/2024

New Features:

• Excel Link Manager: users can now filter links by section, slide, link type, last update date, and person who did the last update. 
• Excel Link Manager: users have a search bar for filter values.
• Smart Format: admins can now set column borders.
• Stacked waterfalls: server setting and option menu for stacking/unstacking variations.
• Stacked waterfalls: a pillar will always be a different color from stacked variations.

Bugs fixed:

• Footnote superscripts are now preserved after a paragraph style has been applied.

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.45 - 18/12/2023

New Features:

• Excel Link Manager: users can now filter Excel links by section.

• Users can now activate the preview mode in Settings -> Preview. 

Bugs:

• The Clean feature works on any workbook, regardless of the number of sheets it contains.
• Table of Contents updates are no longer blocked by footnote updates
• Suggested slides: Bug with suggested slide when an admin wants to accept the suggestion.

  If you accept it (and even if you click on the loop then accept it in a second time) it will not replace the slide in library by the one suggested, but by the first slide of your presentation (even if you have another slide selected when you accept the suggestion)

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.44 - 04/12/2023

New Features:

• The new stacked waterfall is generally available and has two key enhancements:

  • Ability to mix positive and negative values.
  • Server setting and option menu to stack pillars.
• When AutoSmartFormat is activated, waterfalls inherit the same visibility of chart elements (axes, axis titles, labels, etc.) as in the Excel theme regular chart.

Bugs:

• Library loading spinner: preemptively add disabled storage units for each one that will be created during the synchro
• Library loading spinner: synchro optimistic rendering - never-ending spinners when SU download fails
• Library: drag/drop a file in lib generates 2 confirm windows and move anyway

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.43 - 20/11/2023

New Features:

• Excel Link Manager: Users can bulk solve outdated sources issues involving the same outdated source
• When AutoSmartFormat is activated, new charts have the same visibility of chart elements (axes, axis titles, labels, etc.) as in the Excel theme.
• Send and Contact Support features in PowerPoint and Excel are not supported in the new version of Outlook. In this case, UpSlide allows the user to identify the location of the attachment, which is then dragged into the e-mail

Preview

• Stacked waterfalls: users now have access to an options menu for stacking/unstacking pillars

Integrator only

• New Replace window UI: Admin can now choose to link or lock a slide/deck when he is replacing the element.

Bugs:

• Footnotes in tables: when I insert a footnote at the end of the text, the text I type afterwards is no longer superscript and returns to normal
  
• Possibility to export a text link in the title placeholder of a locked slide

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.42 - 06/11/2023

New Features:

• Excel Link Manager:
  • Opt-in to switch from Update All to Excel Link Manager is now generally available
  • Users can bulk solve multiple sources issues involving the same potential sources
• New Search bar UI in the Library and Dynamic Library pane
• End-users are now able to delete table styles created by themselves
• Custom borders in Excel:
  • A checkbox "Preserve Existing Borders" allows users to choose to preserve or not existing borders when applying an UpSlide custom border
  • If the setting is on, applying a custom border no longer overrides existing borders unless there is an overlap (e.g. If the border style impacts only the top border, only the top border should be applied without overriding the rest). 

Preview

• Excel Link: option to export a range as a PowerPoint table in now available in preview mode

Bugs:

• In waterfall and stacked waterfall charts, data labels are not displayed when the value is 0
• When attempting to 'Insert & Resize' with a grouped shape selected, a clear error message is displayed
• It is no longer possible to create links from protected sheets through the Excel Link Contextual menu

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.41 - 23/10/2023

New Features:

Preview

• Users can now create stacked waterfalls with variations and pillars mixing positive and negative values

Bugs:

• Users can now use the Swap features for shapes inside a group
• Admin can now publish a linked deck without re-inserting the slides after publishing them individually

Integrator only

• Shape to inform the user & admin when a slide is locked
• Possibility for an admin to unlock the slide

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.40 - 10/10/2023

New Features:

• Admins can now see the dependencies of a source slide
• Admins can now share templates with specific user groups. Those templates will be stored in the library
• When defining tables styles, admins can now customize horizontal and vertical alignement as well as margins
• Power BI Link - Hiearchical slicers are now editable in the update pane.

Preview

• IA pane is now available
• Users can now create stacked waterfalls with variations mixing positive and negative values
• Excel Link Manager: 

  • The resolution of update issues now has a specific flow in the Excel Link manager.

    The Link Information window has been redesigned and simplified, and separated from update issues resolution.

Integrator only

• A new publish window with the options to choose which slides will be linked if we publish a linked deck
• Possibility to publish a lock slides in the library
• Publish customization without having changes

Bugs:

• Suggestion path can now handle environment variable
• Error with format in library content when inserting a shape with bullet points
• Animations are not lost after an Excel link update

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.39 - 11/09/2023

New Features:

• Footnotes in PowerPoint are now generally available.
• Same UI as the library for the dynamic libraries: help the support to better understand why a user do not have access to the dynamic library
• Add "S" icon on the top right corner of the preview when a slide is the source of multiple slides

Bugs:

• In PowerPoint, users can now update Excel links in grouped shapes and view them in Update All or in the Excel Link Manager.
• Users already logged in no longer see a second authentication prompt when UpSlide is opened.

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.38 - 28/08/2023

New Features:

Preview: 

• Footnotes: when customizing the footnote section (the area containing footnotes), users have a "Line break" option to return to the line each time a new footnote is inserted.
• Excel Link Manager: The wording of Excel link update issues (no source, multiple sources, outdated source) has been revised and simplified for greater clarity.

Bugs:

• Opening Send and Finalize with no slides selected no longer results in an error message: if no slides are selected, Send and Finalize will open with "Full presentation" selected by default and the "Selected slides" option disabled.
•  Fake dependent slide found when an admin click on the view-dependent slide button
• SmartFormat no longer modifies number formats when they are not customized (bug introduced in V6.8.37 and fixed in V6.8.38)

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.37 - 14/08/2023

New Features:

• Custom borders in Excel:
  • a setting has been defined so users can choose to override or not existing borders when applying an UpSlide custom border
  • If the setting is off, applying a custom border no longer overrides existing borders unless there is an overlap (e.g. If the border style impacts only the top border, only the top border should be applied without overriding the rest). 
• Users now have a shortcut for the "Clear Format" feature in Excel.
• Table of Contents section has been renamed Refrences.
• Outlook Signatures: the pane has been redesigned.
• Outlook Signatures: Users can choose the signature to apply to their current emails.
• Outlook Signatures: Administrators can deactivate the ability for the user to edit their personal information.

Bugs:

• When saving a presentation as PDF with a long name impossible to delete the document 

Preview: 

• Footnotes:
  • users can insert footnotes into their PowerPoint presentations, either via the "Insert" drop-down menu in the References section, or via the shortcut Ctrl + Alt + F (can be modified).
  • if footnotes are deleted, users can update the numbering of their footnotes using the Refresh drop-down menu in the References section.
  • Users have the ability to personalize the shape and formatting of the footnote section (the area containing footnotes) through a dedicated pane. When created by an admin, the customized footnote section is stored in the template. 

Internal preview:

• Administrators can identify the dependent slides of a source slide.

Bugs:

• Users can now correctly apply line styles in Excel. Current formatting will not be preserved.
• Finalize: Fixed UI issue preventing long-named PDF files to be deleted.

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.36 - 31/07/2023

New Features:

• Users can now break one or several Excel links in PowerPoint.
• Users can reset Smart Painter properties to be applied with a single click.
• Users will receive an error message when attempting to use shortcuts to launch features not enabled outside the PowerPoint normal view.
• Admins can identify a source slide from a linked deck.
• Users can add several sections at once

Bugs:

• Fixed pixelation issues when inserting background images in PowerPoint using the "Insert & Resize" feature.

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.35 - 17/07/2023

New Features:

• The Clean feature now works for files stored on SharePoint, in addition to files stored locally or on OneDrive.
• The Clean feature now works for binary Excel files (.xlsb).
• Users can now create Excel links even from an unsaved Excel workbook, thanks to integrated workbook save flow.

Public Preview:

• Excel Link Manager: Users can now view problematic links grouped by issue type (no source, multiple sources, outdated sources)

Bugs:

• SmartFormat: charts with markers are now properly formatted

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.34 - 03/07/2023

New Features:

• Library access: new users can send a request asking to their admin to give them access to the libraries

Internal preview:

• Footnotes: users can define a custom footnote (shape, formatting, position, etc.) for each PowerPoint template.  
• Excel Link: users can update Excel tables exported as editable tables in PowerPoint while preserving the formatting applied in PowerPoint.

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.33 - 19/06/2023

New Features:

• Send & Finalize: users can now check an option to remove notes and comments.
• Excel Link Manager can be accessed by users who activate the preview mode.
• Users can now request to activate their license directly from the product without having to ask to the support team or to find internally the admin in charge.
• Power BI Link: cropped page exports are now lighter.
• Activation License: new users can send a request asking to their admin to activate their license in the portal

Internal preview:

• Footnotes: users can create and update footnotes in PowerPoint. 

Bugs:

• Dynamic Library preferences are now stored in a user folder.
• Numbered subsections in unnumbered appendix are now displayed with their numbers.

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.32 - 05/06/2023

New Features:

• Swap features: a uniform error message is now displayed when Swap shortcuts are launched in the absence of a selection of 2 shapes.
• Admins are now able to set up a TOC with Arabic numbers for sections and Roman for subsections.
• UX improvements: Users can now configure automated footers content with tags

Internal preview:

• Internal preview:

  • Proof of concept for exporting an Excel table as an editable table in PowerPoint.

Bugs:

• Hide/Unhide text links button in PowerPoint switches according to the state of text links (hidden / unhidden).
• Publication description does not allow special characters.

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.31 - 22/05/2023

New Features:

• Images are no longer distorted when inserted from the library using the "Insert and resize" feature.
• Admins are now able to add a 0 before the section number only from 1 to 9.
• Power BI link: Users can choose the export language.

Preview

• Admins can now see the deleted templates in the publish windows.

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.30 - 09/05/2023

New Features:

• Swap text: users can now swap text between shapes. Swapped texts take the formatting of the destination shape.
• Admins can now customize their breadcrumbs among a list of existing text variables.
• Power BI link: visual quality and export timeout can now be configured. Ask the support team if you need to edit them.

Preview (limited to internal users)

• Admins can now identify newly added/edited/moved templates that are ready to be published with a red dot.

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.29 - 24/04/2023

New Features:

• Number Format Dropdown: preview is now be based on what is defined in the Excel theme and can be customized.
• The sample table styles that a user can insert from the Tables drop-down list now have 5 rows and 4 columns instead of 4 rows and 3 columns to better illustrate table styles with banded rows.
• Publish button is disabled if no change has been detected.

Preview (limited to internal users):

• Excel Link Manager: pane with top-notch UI/UX to overview, navigate and update Excel links sorted by slide and by workbook, intended to replace the Update All feature:
  • Users can now update links and resolve issues (no source, multiple sources, outdated source) from the pane using the link information window.

Bugs:

• Users can cycle through the Title, Item and Result styles separately using their respective shortcuts, instead of all Line Styles at once (bug introduced in 6.8.26 and fixed in 6.8.27).
• Updating in PowerPoint an exported range containing hidden cells with the advanced export "preserve cell visibility" option no longer generates an exception (bug fixed in 6.8.28).
• Power BI link: Updating the links of a presentation is not disturbed anymore when the focus is on another presentation.

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.28 - 11/04/2023

New Features:

• The 'Insert and Resize' option in the Library can be used in two ways:
  • A shape is selected: the image is resized to fit the shape and sent to the back,
  • Nothing is selected: the image is inserted as the background of the slide.
• Dynamic Library: the format name can now fit on two lines instead of one and a tooltip gives the full name on hover.
• "New templates and styles" toaster is now also displayed after manual installation

Preview (limited to internal users)

• Admin can now publish their changes directly from the manage templates window

Bugs:

• We have identified and corrected some inconsistencies in the shortcuts available for each of the UpSlide offerings.
• Clicking Update after making a selection of shapes containing text links on the one hand, and other image and text links not included in shapes on the other, will correctly update all XL links in the selection.
• Create a new style feature or duplicate a style in Excel no longer crashes Excel (v 6.8.20.1)

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.27 - 27/03/2023

New Features:

• As in PowerPoint, text links to Excel are highlighted by default in Word, and a button on the ribbon allows users to hide/unhide them.
• The F4 key reapplies any UpSlide formatting action in Excel.
• Slide Converter: After conversion, the font size is rounded to the nearest integer (e.g. 10.3 becomes 10 / 10.8 becomes 11).
• Dynamic Library files can now be stored in SharePoint in .txt format in addition to .json.
• A setting has been defined at the account level to allow the download of new versions of UpSlide without using the BITS service.

Preview (limited to internal users)

• Admins can share templates with specific user groups: templates are stored in the library but accessible directly from the templates dropdown
• Admins can manage their templates and move them to different locations

Bugs:

• Opening the Dynamic Library in a presentation without slides no longer generates an error message.
• Power BI authentication window now shows up on top.
• Updating Power BI page exports is now faster.

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.26 - 13/03/2023

New Features:

Preview (limited to internal users)

• Excel Link Manager: pane with top-notch UI/UX to overview, navigate and update Excel links sorted by slide and by workbook/worksheet, intended to replace the Update All feature:
  • In addition to the Slide view, there is now a view to display links sorted by workbook/worksheet

Bugs:

• Slide Check is no more interrupted in the presence of Thinkcell shapes.
• Skip slide numbers on hidden slides: the feature takes into account the pagination start number

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.25 - 27/02/2023

New Features:

• Excel Link: when exporting a single cell with a shape selected in Word, the user can choose to create either an image or a text link. The text link created in this case replaces the existing text in the shape.
• There is now an UpSlide setting at the account level to disable the automatic display of the native Design Ideas feature.

Bugs:

• Updating a formatted text link no longer duplicates it.
• Slide Check is no more interrupted even if one or more checks throw an exception.
• Line Styles: Clear Format works as expected and clear all formatting.
• HTML parsing: first item of a bullet point list is now well imported as a bullet point

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.24 - 13/02/2023

New Features:

• The slope of the CAGR arrow follows the data series (it still comes flat for waterfalls and stacked waterfalls).
• Excel Link Contextual Menu: end-users can now create Excel links through the contextual menu even when copying/pasting from an unsaved Excel workbook, as we have integrated the workbook save into the flow.
• Admins can now restore the last version of a selected templates.

Preview (limited to internal users)

• Excel Link Manager: pane with top-notch UI/UX to overview, navigate and update Excel links sorted by slide and by workbook, intended to replace the Update All feature:
  • By opening the XL Link Manager, the user can see the links grouped by slide,
  • Adding, deleting, moving a slide, or editing a slide title is automatically reflected in the pane,
  • Adding/deleting links is reflected in the pane after pressing the refresh button.

Bugs:

• Using F4 to reapply an UpSlide custom color no longer leaves a copy indicator on the cell.

• End-users see numbered sections and subsections displayed in accordance to current options.

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.23 - 30/01/2023

New Features:

• When selecting an XL image link, a contextual menu (prompt) in PowerPoint appears, allowing users to identify it and perform actions (update, go to source, etc.) without having to go to the ribbon.
• A new option to configure the UpSlide tab shortcut is now available in the Ctrl+Shift+X menu.
• Power BI Link - You can select and unselect all visuals in one click when you edit the slicers.
• Admins can now easily import and deploy a new version of templates & styles shared by their consultants.

Preview (limited to internal users)

• Excel Link Contextual Menu in Word: It appears upon copying and pasting an Excel object (tables and charts) so that users can create an Excel link.

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.22 - 16/01/2023

New Features:

• Dynamic libraries: Dynamic Library can parse HTML language (only for admins)

Bugs:

• The Clean and Prepare features now work for files stored on OneDrive in addition to locally stored files
• Applying a custom background color to a chart works properly (bug introduced in 6.8.21.0 and fixed in 6.8.21.1)
• Cycling too quickly through custom background colours with CTRL + SHIFT + C works properly and is no longer interrupted by a dialogue box (bug introduced in 6.8.21.0 and fixed in 6.8.21.1)
• Slide Converter: migration of slides from a presentation without sub-section dividers (but which may have them) to a presentation with sub-section dividers works properly (and no longer gives empty sub-section dividers in the destination presentation)

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.21 - 02/01/2023

New Features:

Internal preview:

• The CAGR arrow follows the trend of the chart (up, down) instead of a flat line
• Hiding section dividers: End-users can now hide section dividers slides (not delete them)
• Pagination: End-users can now skip hidden slides in the pagination
• Restore last publish: Admins can restore the last published customisation

Bugs:

• Clicking F4 after applying a custom background colour reapplies that colour instead of cycling through the colours

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.20 - 19/12/2022

New Features:

• Workbook Explorer: once opened, the pane receives focus and the user can start navigating without the need for a mouse
• Admins can now set gap width and series overlap for regular and waterfall graphics, so that they are applied automatically by end users througt the Smart Format

Internal preview:

• A new contextual menu allows users to identify UpSlide image links and perform actions (update, go to source, etc.) without having to go to the ribbon

Bugs:

• The performance of Hide Text Exports feature has been significantly improved

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.19 - 05/12/2022

New Features:

• Excel Link Contextual menu is now generally available. As a reminder, it appears when pasting an Excel object (single cells, tables and charts) into PowerPoint so that users can create an Excel link.
• Excel Link Contextual menu: an onboarding message will be displayed the first time end-users copy an Excel object into PowerPoint.
• Slide Converter+, which was under development and limited to internal preview, is now generally available via a button in the Content group of the UpSlide ribbon and replaces the former Slide Converter, which is no longer available.

Preview mode only:

• Preview button: Admins can see their agenda changes in a separate window

N.B.: Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.18 - 21/11/2022*

New Features:

• Table Styles: if nothing is selected, clicking on a preview in the Table Styles drop-down list inserts a formatted table of standard dimensions (4 rows, 3 columns)
• The CAGR arrow can now be removed with a single click
• Dynamic Library: info card window is now limited in height to avoid spillover onto other screens

Preview mode only:

• Agenda setup Wizard: Admins can now pick up the design from an open presentation

Dates are the beta releases – most clients receive the update approx. two weeks after the date indicated.

Release note V6.8.17 - 07/11/2022

New Features:

• Slide Converter: a new version is available in the Content group of the Upslide ribbon.
• Excel Link: when exporting a single cell with a shape selected in PowerPoint, the user can choose to create either an image or a text link. The text link created in this case replaces the existing text in the shape.
• Users can now use the F4 button to replicate the application of Upslide custom background colours in Excel.

Preview mode only:

• Agenda options: Admins can customize the Agenda through Options
• Manage templates: Admins can add/edit/delete their static templates

Release note V6.8.16 - 24/10/2022

New Features:

• Finalize & Send: new option to add PDF documents to the final PDF presentation.
• Dynamic Libraries: users can now save a search and use it later.
• Power BI Link: The possible values for slicers are now available in the update pane
  • Ability to select multiple values through a list, exactly as in Power BI
  • Ability to add a value manually in case the value is not displayed in the list

Preview mode only:

• Slide Converter+ (internal): Implementation of a new algorithm to match layouts based on their content.
• Agenda setup Wizard: Admin can setup the agenda on their own and choose between two templates

Release note V6.8.15.0 - 10/10/2022

New Features:

• Excel formatting: By hovering over a custom background color, end users can see its HTML code.

Internal preview only:

• Slide Converter+: Option descriptions have been reworded and the "Auto-Fill placeholders" option has been made a default operation.

Release note V6.8.14.0 - 26/09/2022

New Features:

Internal preview only:

• Excel link contextual menu: In PowerPoint, clicking on the contextual menu after copying a single cell with a shape selected replaces the original text and creates a text link from the pasted text.
• Slide Converter+: The conversion of bullet styles no longer overrides the "Convert Fonts" and "Freeze Colors" options. 

Bug Fixes:

• Dynamic Library: Significant improvement in performance following a performance degradation reported by a client (fixed in 6.8.13.5).
• Old tombstones module filters are displayed again (bug introduced in 6.8.12 and fixed in 6.8.13.5).

Release note V6.8.13.0 - 29/08/2022

New Features:

• Dynamic Library: Filters dropdowns are now searchable and users can see the selected values in a combobox.
• Excel Table of Content: End-users have the possibility to reference a sheet heading cell to display it in the table of contents with the sheet names.

Bug Fixes:

• Slide Converter: No Fill is converted to No Fill.

Release note V6.8.12.0 - 15/08/2022

New Features:

• Dynamic Library: For dates and doubles fields, slicers have been replaced by much more usable inputs boxes.
• Table of Contents: When created, sections/sub-sections will be given default names that can be changed by end users.
• Library / UI enhancements: Each item in the library has a toolbar at its bottom, which allows end-users to navigate the item and access the different actions they can perform on it.
• Slide Converter: Options have been added in the user settings instead of being serialized, thus simplifying adding/removing options in the future.

Internal preview only

• Slide Converter+:
  • Bullet conversion has been improved to reflect bullet hierarchy in the source presentation. Besides, bullets in grouped shapes are now converted.
  • Margins conversion has been disabled for layout placeholders.
  • Recoloring tool: The colours selected in the source and destination colour drop-downs are highlighted as in the native colour drop-down lists.

Release note V6.8.11.0 - 01/08/2022

New Features:

• Dynamic Library: Introduction of an "Apply" button to retrieve search results instead of retrieving them after each filter change to avoid performance problems.
• Excel link toasters: Both success toasters for creating and updating a link have the "Do not display again" checkbox.

Internal preview only:

• Slide Converter+:
  • Users can convert to third-party presentations other than Upslide templates.
  • Recoloring tool:
    • End users now have a tooltip containing the HTML colour codes when hovering over the colours in the source colour picker.
    • If there is no text, the recoloring tool does not detect the font color of a shape. In addition, it is now able to detect multiple font colors in the same shape.
• Excel link context menu: When a user pastes a single Excel cell into a text selection in PowerPoint, the context menu appears right next to their text cursor.

Release note V6.8.10.0 - 18/07/2022

New Features:

• Dynamic Library: Filters (not filter values) and the sort order defined by users are saved between sessions.
• Dynamic Library: The logs mention the letter of the column in addition to the number of the line where the error occurs.
• Excel Link: When exporting to Word, the exported image is automatically resized to fit the page width while preserving width to height ratio.
• Excel Link - Update All: End-users now have the ability to resize columns in the Update All interface.

Internal Preview only:

• Excel link context menu: In addition to linking tables and charts, it is now possible to create text links upon copying and pasting a single Excel cell into a PowerPoint shape.

Bug Fixes:

• Dynamic library: The alphabetical order of the values in the drop-down filters is no longer lost after they are reset.
• For all new accounts, the Print option Scale to Fit Paper is no longer automatically on for UpSlide presentation. Users can enable it through PowerPoint options [V6.8.9.2].

Release note V6.8.9.0 - 04/07/2022

New Features:

• The Table Styles contextual menu is displayed when end-users select a table and allows them to apply predefined table styles.
• Excel link: a success toaster is displayed each time a user creates a link.
• Settings: the users can force the update to the latest version of UpSlide.

Internal Preview only:

• Slide Converter+:
  • The Conversion tools pane has been finalized and contains two tabs to fine-tune layouts and colors.
  • A wait window is displayed during the conversion.
  • When converting to an UpSlide template, the destination presentation doesn’t have any default slides.

Bug Fixes:

• Adding a new section no longer triggers the Refresh Agenda wait window.
• Agenda recovery is now possible even if there are only dynamic templates.

Release note V6.8.8.0 - 20/06/2022

New Features:

• Table Styles: Bold, italic and underlined text formatting is preserved when a table style is applied. However, when a table style implies the application of bold, italic or underlined text formatting, this property no longer holds.

Internal Preview only:

• Slide Converter+: In addition to static Upslide templates (V6.8.7), users can also convert their slides to a dynamic Upslide template to choose from a drop-down list.
• Excel Link Contextual Menu: It appears upon copying and pasting an Excel object (tables and charts) into PowerPoint so that users can create an Excel link.

Bug Fixes:

• Table styles: The relative heights of the rows are no longer taken into account when applying a table style.

Release note V6.8.7.0 - 07/06/2022

New Features:

• Excel Link: When AutoSave is enabled, users no longer receive a warning to save the Excel file after an export.

Internal Preview only:

• Slide Converter+:
  • Users can convert their slides to an Upslide template to choose from a drop-down list, eliminating the need to open a presentation first.
  • Once the slides are converted, a success toaster appears in the destination presentation and prompts the user to open the Conversion Tools pane to fine-tune layouts and colors.
  • The options have been separated from the main flow and are now accessible and configurable in a dedicated settings tab.

Bug Fixes:

• Excel Link: due to latency issues, the default use of “Microsoft Print to PDF” printer for exports and updates to avoid image quality issues (V6.8.4), has been rolled back.
• Closing and reopening PowerPoint while the library is loading no longer prevents it from synchronizing and no longer triggers an error message.
• Saving a presentation with breadcrumbs containing alt text to PDF using the Finalize feature no longer triggers an error message if the table of contents is refreshed.
• The Send feature in Excel no longer triggers an unnecessary error message.

Release note V6.8.6.0 - 23/05/2022

New Features:

• Paragraph Styles: it is now possible to apply them to text containing hyperlinks.
• Slide Check: Slide Master paragraph styles that are not in the custom layout no longer trigger a warning.
• The reactivation service doesn’t reactivate UpSlide if it has been manually disabled.

Internal Preview only:

• Recoloring tool: In addition to the theme colors, custom colors have been added to the destination color picker.
• Proof of concept: create an Excel Link upon copying/pasting an Excel object in PowerPoint.

Bug Fixes:

• Excel Link - Exported chart is blank: The Support team can now change an Account setting to fix the issue.
• When opening large csv files, Excel could sometimes fail to load the last lines. It is now possible to disable some of UpSlide functionalities to avoid this.
• Dynamic Library: The Open Settings button works and redirects to the Library tab of the Settings interface.

Release note V6.8.5.0 - 09/05/2022

New Features:

• Excel Link/Update All: Removal of an unnecessary and untimely information message triggered after clicking on Open Source.
• Excel link: The success message triggered after updating a link has been replaced by a success toaster (V6.8.4.0).

Internal Preview only:

• New design of the Table Styles context window, which allows end-users to display and apply predefined table styles when selecting a table. End-users also have the option to disable it.
• Slide Converter paragraph conversion: bullet styles are now converted to match the destination template.

Bug Fixes:

• Arrange pane is now scrollable.
• Dynamic library now support variables in the path.
• Clicking the cross to exit the Publish window cancels the publication.

Release note V6.8.4.0 - 25/04/2022

New Features:

• Paragraph Styles: End users can preview and apply styles containing bold, italic and underline formatting. For paragraph styles that do not contain bold, italic or underline formatting, these attributes are preserved (V6.8.3).
• Excel Link: When the user chooses the “As shown when printed” in Export Settings, exports and updates are made using the "Microsoft Print to PDF”.
• Library notifications: Administrators only see notifications for libraries to which they have write access.
• Library notifications: A notification deleted in one Office application (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) is deleted in the other Office applications when the library is restarted.

Internal Preview only:

• Slide Converter+: replicates the current feature and will include all the improvements to be tested.
• Slide Converter margin conversion: the margins of the shapes and text boxes are now adjusted to match the margins of the shapes and text boxes of the destination template, respectively.”
• Recoloring tool: Choosing a fill, outline or font color from the original color drop-down list activates the fill, outline or font respectively in the options.

Bug Fixes:

• Excel Smart Format: The labels on the Y axis do not have a background.
• Finalize: All links are broken at the same time when the "Break Excel Links" option is selected.
• Smart Painter: the formatting of the reference headshot shape is applied to the other headshots without duplicating it (this is now possible by disabling the "All formatting" option for the dynamic library items).

Release note V6.8.3.0 - 11/04/2022

New Features:

• Power BI to Word link is now generally available.
• PowerPoint Table Styles feature is now generally available.
• Publish button is now available directly in the ribbon for administrators.
• PowerPoint formatting features (Shape, Paragraph and Table buttons): end-users will now be prompted with an onboarding window the first time they click on a table or on a shape.
• Paragraph Styles: preview is now compatible with numbered paragraphs.
• Excel Link to PowerPoint/Word: improved warning when a source file is closed without save after export.
• Internal Preview only - Recolouring tool: end-users can now replace fill, outline and font colors through a new interface.
• Internal Preview only - Table Styles context window: shows available table styles when you select a table.
• Template Manager: Integrators now have a button to replace a template with the active presentation.
• Internal preview - Agenda design: first version of a new window to edit the agenda design directly in the slide master.
• Import Excel styles button: Integrators receive a toaster once Excel table styles have been successfully imported.

Bug Fixes:

• Settings/Templates&Styles/Published content location: fixed DPI issues.
• Dynamic Library: double-clicking on tombstones inserts them correctly.

v6.8.2.0 - 24/03/2022

New Features

• Table Styles: admins can now create table styles with banded rows in PowerPoint.
• Table Styles: the button is disabled if no table or many tables are selected.
• Table Styles Manager: clicking on “Replace with selected table” triggers a confirmation window.
• Table Styles Manager: clicking on “Insert into current slide” closes the action menu and inserts the table style replica in the middle of the slide.
• Table Styles Manager: pressing escape closes the window.
• Customization installation window: wording review.
• Notifications: a user receives only notifications subsequent to Upslide set up.
• Power BI to PowerPoint link: when exporting into a shape, the exported image is resized to fit the width of the placeholder.
• Internal Preview only: in the absence of table styles in PowerPoint, UpSlide generates default styles from available UpSlide Excel themes.
• Internal Preview only - Table Styles popup window:
  • it no longer shows up in the alt tab menu nor in the task bar.
  • it no longer steals focus (it is possible now to delete or edit a table even if the popup is open).
  • it now appears at the top of the selected table.
  • it now displays a topbar with an Upslide logo and a close button.
• Internal Preview only - Table of Contents: users can edit the Table of Contents directly from the Template Manager.
• Internal Preview only: Power BI to Word link : users can now edit slicers.
• Internal Preview only: Power BI to Word link : visual is inserted where the cursor is located.

Bug Fixes

• Dynamic Templates: ShapeVariables are no longer case-sensitive.
• Smart Track: clicking on Smart Track no longer triggers an error message (bug introduced in 6.7.27).
• Deleting folders from the library: the preview pane of the library is now refreshed after a folder is deleted.
• Arrange pane: fixed a bug where, when using both the dynamic libraries and the standalone arrange pane, an error could pop up.

v6.8.1.0 - 10/03/2022

New Features

• Power BI to PowerPoint/Visual quality: end-users have a better screenshot quality.
• Paragraph styles: end-users can now preview and apply all paragraph styles defined in the slide master.
• Paragraph styles: each paragraph preview shows the bullet style, text level, font name, font size, and font color.
• Table Styles: The input box to add a style has been redesigned.
• Table Styles Manager: when deleting a table style, admins get a confirmation message.
• Table Styles manager: when there are no table styles, an information message appears in the window.
• Library /TOC Reminders: admins no longer need to remove TOC reminders before publishing them to the library.
• Deleting folders from the library: end-users receive a confirmation message with the correct number of items, as well as a warning message to manually delete folder items not recognized by Office applications.
• Settings/Templates&Styles: the wait window following Publish or Delete has been redesigned.
• Settings/Templates&Styles: Excel Themes changes are no longer listed as "Excel Styles" changes.
• Internal Preview only: when inserting or selecting a table, a pop-up window for previewing and applying table styles appears.
• Internal Preview only: Integrators have a button to preview and manipulate the TOC.

Bug Fixes

• Dynamic Templates: ShapeVariables are no longer case-sensitive.
• Smart Track: clicking on Smart Track no longer triggers an error message (bug introduced in 6.7.27).
• Deleting folders from the library: the preview pane of the library is now refreshed after a folder is deleted.

v6.8.0.0 - 26/02/2022

New Features

• Settings/Templates & Styles: admins can now see their local changes in a much clearer way.
• Library Suggestions: users can now delete notifications.
• Redesign of the confirmation message admins get when installing a template or style update.
• Redesign of the window to create a new folder in the library.
• Redesign of the wait window admins receive when installing a template or style update.
• Redesign of deletion confirmation windows.
• Removal of the success window after an admin exports a template or a style update.
• Arrange Pane: default alignment is set to “Middle” and default margin to “Auto”.
• Internal preview (only): Redesign of table styles thumbnails.
• Internal preview (only): a dedicated interface for admins to manage table styles (rename, insert, replace, delete).
• Integrators can generate in PowerPoint default tables styles from Excel table styles

Bug Fixes

• Bullet styles: you can now apply a style on an empty line.
• Excel Add-in: fixed a UI ribbon exception on startup.
• Settings window: fixed the close button.

v6.7.26.0 - 11/02/2022

New Features

• Arrange pane: Margin and alignement options are now preserved between sessions.
• Library administration: admins can now delete mutliple items in one click.
• Library suggestion: clicking the suggestion notification now directly displays the suggestion pane.
• Library suggestion: accepting/rejecting a suggestion now removes the notification.
• Internal preview (only): a dedicated button for table styles and for bullet point styles
• Internal preview (only): a dedicated button for table styles and for bullet point styles
• Internal preview (only): a publish button is now displayed in the ribbon when an admins modifies templates & styles.
• All administrator windows: replaced a lot of error messages by validation controls.

Bug Fixes

• Slide chek: fixing highlight warnings could change font size. (introduced in 6.7.22).
• Excel link: UpSlide will now be able to update links from workbook with 100k+ names. There will be a small performance impact (only for workbooks where UpSlide previously crashed).

v6.7.25.0 - 28/01/2022

New Features

• Library: folder name can now contain the following characters: . ~ & {}
• Library suggestions: Admins can also submit suggestions.
• Excel Themes: added validation to make sure that Themes names are: unique, without unauthorized chars & below 100 chars.
• Shortcut CTRL+Shift+B for inserting a subsection.
• Insert Section window redesign.
• UI improvements to the Finalize feature window.
• Reworking of Ribbon tooltips in the English version to make them to make them more readable and user-friendly.

Bug Fixes

• SharePoint hosted library: admins can delete a folder even if it's not empty.
• Dynamic library stored on Azure blob storage: Fix a regression introduced in 6.7.14.0 where blobs could not be accessed by Dynamic Libraries.
• Settings window: if user email address contains a "_" it's now visible (it used to be removed by the UI).
• Dynamic library: “Clear all filters” resulted in an error message.
• “Hide Text Exports” broke the link when text was bold or the font size was changed.
• If there are hyperlinks in SmartArt, clicking on "Update All" no longer triggers an error message. “Update All” simply ignores them and opens normally.

v6.7.24.0 - 12/01/2022

New Features

• New Arrange pane: UX that makes it easier for end-users to change alignments and margins.
• Excel charts - Last series as total: End-users can now show last series as totals from the charts dropdown menu. The feature already existed but was only visible if you right-clicked on the chart.
• Excel theme manager - Rename theme: Admins can now rename Excel themes.
• Library suggestions: Admins have buttons (instead of a context menu) to preview, accept and reject suggestions.

Bug Fixes

• Smart Painter: reference shape name is trimmed if too long relative to the pane.
• Library suggestion system: Suggestion is sent without comment when a user doesn't type anything in the Message's textbox.
• When opening a PPT presentation in protected view, all controls in the ribbon are disabled, apart from "Templates", "Feedback", "Help" and "Settings”.
• Fixed Smart Clean tooltips.
• The Theme button is grayed out when a user is in cell editing mode.
• Library suggestion system: Accept suggestion button is disabled in Office 2013.

v6.7.22.0 - 06/12/2021

New Features

• Table of content options: settings are now accessible directly from the PowerPoint ribbon (e.g. Show/Hide subsection dividers, show/hide reminders...).
• Cross reference system: the insert cross reference button is now part of the Insert menu.
• Library notification system: user who made a suggestion are notified when an administrator accepts/rejects it.
• Table styles: previews give more context on the impact of the styles button.
• Excel theme manager: admins have a new interface to manage the styles. It makes edition and ordering of themes much faster.

v6.7.21.0 - 06/12/2021

New Features

• Library Content Suggestion: end-users can now suggest the replacement of library content to administrators.
• New language: Polish language is now available in the language dropdown.
• Native "Re-use slides" pane: the annoying native "Re-use slides" pane that would appear after each library insertion is now automatically closed by UpSlide
• Library Drag and drop for shapes: end-users can now insert shapes into the current presentation by drag and dropping them from the library pane

Bug Fixes

• The "checkProcesses" parameter is now set by default to false in the UpSlide setup.
• When saving Excel stylesheets theme colours are now unliked from Office the theme.
• Excel library sheet thumbnails were not accurate under certain conditions.
• The reference shape width and height information was not updated as the shape was redimensioned in the smart painter.
• The search on linked slides was not working as expected.

v6.7.20.0 - 22/11/2021

New Features

• Feedback: a new Feedback button is now available in the UpSlide ribbon. This button opens a satisfaction survey aiming at collecting the user's satisfaction rating and an associated comment.
• Line style: the Excel line styles borders are now correctly previewed.
• Excel theme manager: the new Excel theme manager now allows integrators to create and delete themes.

Bug Fixes

• The Excel link with Word wasn't performing as expected when the preview pane was displayed in the Windows explorer.