• [Beta] MCP Server: User can now access selected UpSlide features via Claude PPT & Excel
• AI Slide Generator: User can now access AI Slide Generator only via the MCP

Hotfixes:

• 7.1.0.1 (09 June 2026)

  • [Beta] Slide Generator: better text shapes max chars count.
  • [Beta] Slide Generator: fix paragraph style applying.

• 7.1.0.2 (09 June 2026)

  • [Beta] MCP Server: add Office App name to MCP handshake.

• 7.1.0.4 (24 June 2026)

  • [Beta] MCP Server: Add-in does not send anymore a session ID.

• 7.1.0.5 (26 June 2026)

  • Library: Prevent Microsoft bug to block library slides insertion.

• 7.1.0.6 (01 July 2026)

  • Track Changes: Prevent Microsoft bug to block pdf report generation.

• AI Glossary: User can now benefit from more accurate glossary results, with improved definition detection.

Bug fixes

• Consistency Check: Fixed an issue preventing Consistency Check from running correctly on presentations containing large images.

• Track Changes: Improve performance for XL Link Tables tracking
• AI Glossary: Fixed an issue where applying glossary template changes did not update existing glossary slides automatically.

• Track Changes: User can now track changes in the Tables XL Link as native PPT Tables

Hotfixes:

• 7.0.14.2 & 7.0.14.3 (16 April 2026)

  • Resolved an issue where UpSlide could fail to load certain features on machines with FIPS policy enabled.

• 7.0.14.4 (23 April 2026)

  • Fix Consistency Check visibility for Power BI, Excel Link, and UpSlide Links licenses.

• Gantt: New design, various fixes
• Outlook Signature Manager (OSM): User pane design improvements

• Consistency Check: User can now launch the Consistency Check through the Quick Actions toolbar

• Consistency Check: Introduces a guided in-app onboarding experience to help users quickly understand and adopt the Consistency Check feature.
• Library: User can now see the SharePoint logout link even if not correctly logged in.
• Library: User can now clear the cache and force the library synchronization directly from the settings window.

• Outlook Signature Manager (OSM):

  • License Manager now manage signature campaign scope by Email type, specifying if a campaign is for New / Reply & Forward and/or Meeting invitations.
  • Campaign UX is improved to context (prefill with filter, sizing when many user groups...)

Bug fixes

• Consistency Check: Adds a 400-slide limit to prevent processing overly large presentations.
• Consistency Check: Fixes an issue where the analysis could fail if the first slide was deleted during the process.

• Consistency Check: Scan selected slides to automatically detect calculation errors and inconsistencies across your presentation, helping ensure accuracy and coherence.
• Consistency Check: You can now choose whether to run checks on the full presentation or only selected slides.
• Consistency Check: Improves processing speed and reduces AI credit consumption, especially for medium to large presentations.

• Data Pack:

  • Users are now prompted to update Excel links before launching the generation, helping ensure a successful output.
  • Generation will proceed even if some links are invalid; any broken links will be highlighted in the final Data Pack.
• Excel Link: It’s no longer possible to create text links inside footnote shapes or endnote tables.
• Outlook Signature Manager (OSM): License Manager can now select user groups to view their applicable signature campaigns. Moreover, the campaign list view has been redesigned.
• Outlook signature manager (OSM): Signature loading performance improved for users.

Hotfixes:

• 7.0.10.2 (9 Februrary 2026)

  • Sticky mouse pointer bug: impacted users can now disable contextual menus in PowerPoint from the Debug Pane > Support > Advanced. It should reduce the likelihood of that bug.
  • Contextual menu to link pasted shapes in PowerPoint has been disabled for 1x1 tables following a PowerPoint bug. Indeed, in some Office versions, copying a single cell from Excel and pasting it into a shape or placeholder in PowerPoint pastes a 1x1 table instead of pasting the text into that shape or placeholder.

• 7.0.10.4 (23 February 2026)

  • Excel Link Manager (PowerPoint): updating hundreds of text links was much slower than before; now it is back to normal.

• 7.0.10.5 (25 February 2026)

  • Tombstones (PowerPoint): An unexpected error during thumbnail generation could interrupt the rest of the thumbnails to be generated

• 7.0.10.6 (5 March 2026)

  • Excel text links in Word: when saving the document as PDF or printing it, numbers were displayed with a wrong value due to an unexpected Word behavior. Now it is back to normal.

Bug fixes:

• Track Changes: Squashed the cheap-looking UpSlide logo in the PDF report
• Track Changes: Previous slide version preview fails on read-only presentations

Hotfix:

• 7.0.9.5 (11 February 2026)

  • Improved performance of dynamic libraries used with Sites.Selected: when a large number of files were present in the dynamic library, performance with the Sites.Selected option could be degraded.

• Outlook signature manager (OSM): When editing a campaign, License Manager can now copy signature from another existing campaign with new button "Insert signature", avoiding starting from scratch.
• Outlook signature manager (OSM): Campaign creation/edition page design improvement

Bug fixes:

• Track Changes: Deleted cell not highlighted in the preview window and PDF report

• Outlook signature manager (OSM): License Manager can now select all filtered elements directly with the new entry "Add to selection".
• Template Selector: Admins can now start to track user selection

Bug fixes:

• Table of contents: The fix improves breadcrumb cleanup by identifying and removing breadcrumb shapes based on their names rather than tags, preventing the accumulation of duplicate breadcrumbs when users copy/paste shapes
• Library: We fixed a navigation issue to prevent the UI from "jumping" between folders and elements.

Hotfixes:

• Sticky mouse pointer bug: some PowerPoint users complained that a shape would move with the cursor, simply after being selected. We have reduced the likelihood of this issue occurring (although it may still happen occasionally with some Excel-PPT links).
• Data Pack: Hidden rows & columns are no longer embedded in the data pack.
• Data pack: For charts, only, and strictly the chart data is included.
• Data Pack: One table/chart per spreadsheet instead of all tables and charts from one slide per spreadsheet.
• Data Pack: New TOC for each sheet
• [EXCEL] Prepare feature fixed
• [POWERPOINT] Swap center fixed
• Library and Power BI connection : fix authentication for clients using their own single tenant application

• Formula Audit: User can now use the formula audit feature

Bug fixes:

• Fixed an issue where editing PowerPoint templates could show a misleading “template moved or deleted” error when PowerPoint’s default save format was set to OpenDocument

Hotfixes:

• 7.0.5.2 (28 November 2025):

  • Track Changes: Corrected an issue with tables where the cell's text was not properly highlighted for added or deleted cells.

• Table of Contents: Admin can now add the title section name in the section divider slide
• Autocolor: User can now customize their background
• Data Pack: Users can now generate an Excel file containing all the tables and charts from a PowerPoint presentation, provided they were created using the UpSlide Excel Link.
• Send/Finalize: Users now have the option to remove endnote hyperlinks, both the superscript references in slides and the endnotes table.
• Merge Text Boxes: Users can now merge multiple text boxes into one, using a button in the Formatting Tools pane.
• Preview mode has been removed. Early access to features is now managed via feature flags.

Bug fixes:

• Excel-linked shapes no longer stay stuck to the mouse cursor when quickly switching between shapes.

• 7.0.4.5 (6 November 2025): multiple fixes on the data pack

  • Fix when the exported cell is merged.
  • Fix for chart sheets, and when chart series are located on a different sheet from the chart.
  • Cell formulas containing absolute references are replaced by their raw value (before: references like $B$5 in the source workbook would be kept after pasting into the data pack, which led to a wrong cell reference) .

• Smart track: User can now trace multi-cell dependencies or precedents
• Track changes: User can now accept/reject individual changes within a PPT native table
• Clean & Prepare: Users now have the option to clean or prepare the original Excel file directly.
• Paragraph Styles: Font size now applies correctly when a paragraph style is applied with the cursor at the end of a paragraph.
• Outlook Signature image: Image quality is improved in signature at image upload in Signature edition.

Hotfixes:

• 7.0.3.2 (17 October 2025):

  • Track Changes : Corrected inconsistencies regarding the display of table changes and position of retrieved cell content.

• 7.0.3.4 (22 October 2025):

  • Track Changes : Fixed track changes on a sharepoint files while having the color toolbar activated when PowerPoint started.

• TOC: User can now use the shortcuts to add a new section to add multiple sections
• Track Changes: User can now track added/deleted images
• Logo Finder: User can now see a checkerboard behind the logo without a background

Bug fixes:

• Additive templates: Admins can now see a white thumbnail if the thumbnail generation fails during the publish
• TOC: Admins can now open TOC option adn select another tab without seeing their presentation automatically close

• 7.0.2.2 (8 October 2025)

  • Track Changes: Pdf report now won't crash anymore when comparing sharepoint to local file, and vice versa

• 7.0.2.3 (22 October 2025)

  • XL → Word link export bug is now fixed when exporting a text link after performing a link update.

• 7.0.2.4 (22 October 2025)

  • Glossary variability issue is fixed.

• Track Changes: User can now use PPT while the preview window is open
• Track Changes: User can now track added/deleted XL link
• Blob Storage: Admins/PS can now store customization in blob storage

Bug fixes

• 7.0.1.2 (16 September 2025) :

  • Fixed a bug when opening TOC option on a .potx file
  • Fixed a bug on track changes after accepting individual change
  • Fixed a bug on track changes on table empty row addition
  • Improved Pitchly SSO authentication

• 7.0.1.3 (17 September 2025) :

  • Fixed a bug in the Track Changes where the preview button did nothing for certain tables

• Paragraph Styles now include a dynamic background that adjusts to enhance visibility of white and very light text.
• Track Changes: Users can now generate a PDF export and compare versions side by side thanks to highlighted content
• Track Changes: Users can now have the option to see the last version of the slide

Bug fixes

• 7.0.0.2 (5 September 2025) :

  • Library: Fixed a bug where publishing a locked slide would create a storage unit with a blank name

• Export as PowerPoint Table: Available to all users when enabled by your UpSlide contact via the portal.
• Endnotes: Admins can now create custom endnote templates for each variation of the dynamic template.
• [Public Preview] Track Changes: Users can now use a shortcut (Ctrl + Alt + K) to open the pane
• [Public Preview] Track Changes: Users can now see the last version of the slide

Bug fixes

• Autocolor: Users can now use the autocolor with formulas starting by "=-" or "=+"

Hotfixes:

• 6.9.36.3 (19 july 2025):

  • Logo Finder : The slash and colon characters no longer act as separators

• [Public Preview] Export as PowerPoint Table: Users will now see a warning in the contextual menu above Excel-linked tables in PowerPoint. It informs them that any formatting or data changes made in PowerPoint will be overwritten when the table is next updated from Excel.
• Logo Finder: Users can now copy-paste a list of logos from Excel and directly do a multi-search
• Logo Finder: Users can now use all types of separators when they search multiple logos
• Logo Finder: Users can now see that one logo is automatically selected when they search multiple logos
• [Public Preview] Track Changes: Users can now see the difference between two tables with the same UX as for the text placeholder
• [Public Preview] Track Changes: Users can now see added and deleted slides within the new "presentation" tab
• [Public Preview] Track Changes: Users are now redirected to the first slide with a change when they start to track changes between two presentations

Hotfixes:

• 6.9.35.3 (30 july 2025):

  • Track Changes: Fixed an issue where the undo button would change the formatting of the shape/text.

• 6.9.35.4 (6 Aug 2025):

  • Export as PowerPoint Table: the onboarding could show up even if the feature was not available.

• [Public Preview] Track Changes: Users can now see the deleted shapes from the last version
• [Public Preview] Track Changes: Users can now navigate through the slides with changes
• Margins: Users can now simultaneously apply margin features to multiple cells in a table.
• Endnotes: Admins can now customize a template for endnotes.

Hotfixes:

• 6.9.34.3 (17 July 2025):

  • Fix AI Assistant Translation: When clicking on a translation language, the AI Assistant window closed without doing anything.

• 6.9.34.4 (18 july 2025):

  • Fixed a Track Changes issue where undoing a shape edition or addition would misplace the shape in the slide.

• 6.9.34.5 (25 july 2025):

  • Fixed an issue where certain clients would not be able to access their Dynamic Libraries nor update their Library if it was hosted on Azure Blobs

• Library: Admin can now use the admin features when the library is stored in an Azure blob
• Send: Users can now have the full presentation option by default when they use the Send & Finalize feature in PPT
• Library: Users can now enjoy a better performance when they open the library pane

Hotfixes:

• 6.9.33.4 (09 July 2025):

  • Fix TrackChanges charts issue: The DLL allowing reading the charts text was not added properly. It has been added properly, now.
  • Fix issue where some important features (Excel Export, Smart Format, etc.) were missing in the UpSlide ribbon in Excel

• 6.9.33.5 (10 July 2025):

  • Fix File System library synchronisation: The synchronisation trigger file now has content that is updated each time an admin makes a change in the library.

• 6.9.33.6 (17 July 2025):

  • Fix AI Assistant Translation: When clicking on a translation language, the AI Assistant window closed without doing anything.

• [Public Preview] Excel link to PowerPoint: Users (through the Support team) can now enable SVG rendering instead of EMF for XL-linked charts, at both the user and account level, to improve visual quality.
• [Public Preview] Excel link to PowerPoint: Users are now always prompted to open the last update workbook when either the "Update with last workbook" option is enabled or no source is found.
• Excel link to PowerPoint: Users without a modelling license now have access to the Clean feature
• [Public Preview] Track Changes: Users can now revert their changes if they accept or reject a change
• [Public Preview] Track Changes: Users can now use the SharePoint history to track changes

New Features:

• AI Assistant: Users can now have different proposals when using the AI Assistant actions
• [Public Preview] Excel link to PowerPoint: [Preview] Excel Link – Export as PowerPoint Table Preserves Excel table formatting in PowerPoint
• Excel link to Word / Excel link to PowerPoint: Excel Link: Reduced the likelihood of rare unhandled errors in large Excel files that could interrupt the update process
• Formatting Tools: Select Similar Shapes now supports lines
• Formatting Tools: Users can now alternate between Resize and Distribute actions (Vertical and Horizontal)
• Outlook signature manager (OSM): User information (job title, address, etc.) is now refreshed automatically when it changes
• Paragraph styles: Applying paragraph styles in PowerPoint tables keeps the cursor within the cell
• Quick Action / Space bar: User can now reset the Quick Actions shortcut
• Send in Excel: Users can’t use the send feature if a worksheet or the workbook is protected
• Smart Track: Users can now use track Adress, indirect, index and match formulas with the smart track
• Table Of Content (TOC): Admin can now set up TOC with middle and bottom alignment

Hotfixes:

• 6.9.31.3 (06 June 2025):

  • Fix the Slide Check, which sometimes causes PowerPoint to crash.

New Features:

• Excel link to PowerPoint: The Support team now has access to all Office and UpSlide properties—at link creation, the last update, and the previous update—within the Export Options section of the Excel Link Information window.
• Footnotes / Endnotes: If a superscript doesn’t match one of the three allowed formats, number only, parentheses, or brackets, it will be ignored.
• Glossary (AI powered): Admins can now customize the glossary by setting up a slide model
• [Public Preview] Library: Admins are now aware that it is not possible to replace an item in the library by a non-UpSlide item
• Library: Users can now enjoy a new Library split button in the ribbon
• Quick Action / Space bar: Users can now access the styles galleries in the Quick Actions bar
• Smart Track: Users can now always see the value of the cell in the smart track tree
• [Public Preview] Track Changes: Users can now view original version of a chart or table clicking 👁️ to identify changes by themselves
• [Public Preview] Track Changes: Users can now enjoy a prefill email when they submit a feedback

Bug Fixes:

• Smart Track: Excel will no longer stall when browsing the smart track tree with the up and down arrow keys
• Library: Trying to replace a slide deck with a non UpSlide template slide or presentation will now display an error window instead of nothing happening

Hotfixes:

• 6.9.30.2 (15 May 2025):

  • Handle correctly dynamic libraries names containing the '&' character in the ribbon library split button.

New Features:

• Quick Actions: Users can now access an in-app toolbar to search and execute PowerPoint and UpSlide features.
• Endnotes: Users can now insert endnotes in their PowerPoint presentations
• Endnotes: Users and admins can now customize endnotes superscripts
• Library: Users can now see that the load time has been improved
• Dynamic Libraries (Tombstones, Bios & Credentials): Users can now have a custom URL for Dynamic Libraries
• Gantt Charts: Users can now choose dates more easily
• [Public Preview] Track Changes: Users can now track changes between tables
• [Public Preview] Track Changes: Users can now track changes between PPT charts
• [Public Preview] Track Changes: Users can now track changes between grouped shapes
• [Public Preview] Track Changes: Users can now submit their feedback from the track changes pane
• [Public Preview] Track Changes: Users can now enjoy an onboarding window

Hotfixes:

• 6.9.29.3:

  • [PowerPoint Track Changes] Fixed a bug where charts did not appear in the pane
  • [PowerPoint Track Changes] Fixed a bug where UpSlide crashed when shapes had conflicting id

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 + Space (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.

New features

• Smart Track: Possibility to switch from dependents to precedents directly from the smart track pane.
• Pitchly: UpSlide retrieves the Pitchly template within the DL pane

Bug fixes:

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

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

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 longer have a broken table style (they did when the admin made 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

New Features:

• Logo Finder is available (not compatible with Office 2013)

  • Users have suggestions when typing the logo name.
  • Button to request a logo.
• 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
• AI Glossary: users can automatically generate a glossary of abbreviations. They can update the glossary while retaining their manual modifications.

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 cancelled if it 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

New Features:

• 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).

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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].

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

v6.7.19.0 - 09/11/2021

New Features

• Send/Finalize: finalize options allowing to remove cross-references, remove redundant dividers and break Excel links can be selected when exporting to PDF format.
• Dynamic libraries: admins can now store their Dynamic Libraries' data and schema in XL files,, thus preventing encoding issues experienced by some admins when using CSV files.
• Table of Contents: integrators (for now but soon end-users as well) can pick options from a user-friendly pane that will be more visible and accessible in the UpSlide ribbon.
• Excel Theme: integrators (for now but soon admins as well) can update their XL themes more easily using a new XL Theme Manager. The latter does not require admins to rely on the complicated and time-consuming "get"/"set" legacy system for the changes to be taken into account.

Bug Fixes

• When changing reference shape, the user was moved its current slide to the previous reference shape's one.
• Dynamic templates created using the new template manager were not displaying the bolt icon in the template list.

New Features

• Linked slides: admins now can create a single-slide linked deck.
• Smart Painter: the tool's UI got some final adjustments.

Bug Fixes

• Template Manager: recently used colors are emptied when saving a static template after editing it.
• Template Manager: adminsitrators can no longer create templates with names containing windows reserved characters.

New Features

• License Renewal: license expires after 3 days and no longer after 10 days.
• Excel link: updating links when the source file has too many names defined (e.g. more than 100k names) no longer crashes. The end-user is also informed the update may take a while because of the high number of names and asked if he wants to proceed.
• PowerPoint styles: end-users can now set and apply table styles to their existing PowerPoint tables.
• Smart Painter: end-users can now navigate to the reference shape on a single click.
• Excel styles: admins get an error message if they try to edit the excel theme source tabs name to avoid breaking macros.
• Template Manager: integrators now can find the Legacy Template Managers in the Integrators tab. Only the new Template Manager appears in the UpSlide tab.
• Recoloring tool: integrators can now choose the scope of the recoloring (selected objects or slides, current slide or the whole presentation).

Bug Fixes

• Smart Painter no longer allowed users to select tables as reference shapes.
• Users were sent to the top nodes of the library tree when expanding a folder at the bottom of the tree just after the library loading.

New Features

• Smart Painter V2 Available for End-users: end-users can now use the new smart painter we've had internally for integrators for weeks!
• New End-user TOC Options: if the template is set for it, end-users can now hide/unhide subsection titles in section dividers or hide/unhide slide titles in (sub)section dividers.
• Delete Template: integrators now have the ability to delete a static or dynamic template in the new Template Manager.
• PPT Table Styles (integrators only for now) - Integrators can now create table styles in PPT allowing them to quickly format existing tables.
• PPT Bullet insertion in shapes or text boxes - Integrators can now apply the same bullet points as the slide master in text boxes and shapes.

Bug Fixes

• The trim titles option for breadcrumbs would not work as expected when the breadcrumbs shapes where parallelograms.
• Slide check would fail on 2 specific presentations with specific shapes.
• Some usage stats were not correctly received.

New Features

• PBI link - Slicer Edit on Specific Visuals: end-users can choose which visuals they want to edit when editing slicer's values
• Template Manager available for Admins: the new feature allowing to edit static and dynamic templates is now available for administrators
• Smart Painter v2 (integrators only for now): the feature now allows for users to open it without having a reference shape selected but also to change the reference shape when there is one

New Features

• Template Manager (integrators only for now): integrators are now able to edit the default presentations from static and dynamic templates in the new Template Manager feature. They are also able to edit a dynamic template's JSON configuration in the Template Manager.
• Dynamic Libraries: dynamic libraries can now be hosted in Azure Blobs.

Bug Fixes

• Library decks with more than 10 decks could have their sides presented in the wrong order in the library preview.

New Features

• Broken Link Warning: Admins get a warning if they are about to break linked decks by deleting or replacing by a deck a source slide
• Smart Painter v2 (integrators only for now): a new version of the smart painter tool is now available for integrators to try.

New Features

• End-user Breacrumbs ON/OFF Option: a new option now allows end-users to turn OFF/ON in a single click, breadcrumbs on a presentation whose template has the necessary breadcrumbs setup.
• Rename & Set as Default: The new PPT template manager now allows integrators to rename static or dynamic templates. They can now also set a static template as default.
• Dynamic Libraries Migration Tool: Image quality is now better when migrating Tombstones from the old to the new module using our internal CS migration tool

Bug Fixes

• Opening the settings window without an active presentation in PPT would fail.
• Option to publish as a linked deck would show even when one couldn't publish as a linked deck.

New Features

• PPT Styles on Selected Text: End-users can now apply a style just to the selected text within a given shape or placeholder.
• Power BI Link: End-users can now edit time-interval slicers.
• Template Manager (integrators only for now, admins soon): A new feature allowing integrators to easily reorder the list of static and dynamic templates in their config is now available.

Bug Fixes

• Breadcrumb generation was not placing the shapes correctly when shapes were set to fit to the text.

New Features

• Excel link: source file path is now fully visible instead of being trimmed in the Link Information window.
• Breadcrumbs: a new option that trimms titles that are too long to fit in the breadcrmubs shapes is now available.
• Library: users can mark all notifications as read.
• Linked Decks: the feature is now available for administrators.

Bug Fixes

• When unhiding broken text links PPT would flicker.
• Mouse scroll would not work on th broken exports window's list.
• Library and Smart Print buttons would disappear when renaming a sheet or in edit mode in XL.

New Features

• Power BI link: users can refresh reports in PBI import windo.
• Broken Text Exports: broken text export warning has been redesigned to offer a better look & feel and to provide the information necessary to fix the presentation.
• Linked Decks (integrators-only for now): end-users inserting linked decks with broken links (ex: original linked slide deleted or inacccessible...) are now shown a warning informing them broken linked slides are present in the deck. Each broken linked slide also gets an overlay with info on the original linked slide that can no longer be accessed.
• Linked Decks (integrators-only for now): when opening the local copy of a linked deck containing outdated linked slides the end-user will be warned and invited to SlideCheck and apply update fixes to the deck.

Bug Fixes

• Smart Format & Co-Authoring: end-users editing the same workbook simultanouesly now see other users' edits using SmartFormat correctly applied.
• Dynamic Libraries: the migration feature now extracts images with the same quality as those from the legacy tombstone shapes.
• The display of the Number Format dropdown in Excel with Office dark theme was not ideal.
• Tooltips in the Advanced Export dialog were not correctly displayed.
• The context menu was not closed as expected after inserting a library item in the current presentation.
• The UpdateAll dialog in Word was not opening properly.

New Features

• XL Link: there is no longer the need to save the presentation when hiding text exports. Opening the UpdateAll dialog or creating a new text export now also unhides all text exports.
• Licensing: 3 new license types have now been made available.

Bug Fixes

• It was not possible to exit the suggestion list in the library tags management dialog using keyboard navigation.
• Some chart editing options that should have been available were disabled for users using the Branding license.

New Features

• XL Link: the loading time of the UpdateAll dialog in Word has been improved by loading link page numbers asynchronously.

Bug Fixes

New Features

• Dynamic Libraries: a new arrange pane with an optimized UX is now available for end-users.
• Advanced Paste: $ references within the copied range are now also translated when using Paste Duplicate.
• Libraries: insertion into the current presentation has had its performance optimized an is now up to 4 times faster.
• Libraries (integrators only for now): integrators are able to create library decks that are linked to library slides meaning that if the latter is updated the former will also be automatically updated.

Bug Fixes

• The TOC option UseSlideTitleAsSubsectionMarker was not working as expected due to a regression introduced in v.6.7.3.
• Dynamic Libraries were having compatibility issues with .Net 4.7.

New Features

• Excel link: hidden Text Exports will no longer be broken when the text preceding or following them is edited.
• TOC: the outline pane is now also refreshed when a (sub)section has its title edited in the divider and the user hits the refresh button. Before, the user needed to hover over the outline pane for it to be refreshed.
• Slide Converter: when converting a shape with text, the text's font will be converted to the theme's default font instead of the font from the first placeholder.

Bug Fixes

New Features

• Dynamic library: new option, at format level, to generate images instead of shapes (major request from marketing teams).
• Dynamic library: new option, at format level, to condition visibility upon a field being filled. For example, only display deal as a case study if the case study is available.
• Dynamic library (beta): Arrange pane was redesigned and the flow made more intuitive.
• Dynamic library: selection mode was changed. To select multiple tombstones, you now need to user Ctrl and Shift buttons.
• Breadcrumbs: a new option has been introduced allowing to display only sections even when subsection exist in the presentation.
• Library Tags: admins can now add tags to multiple items at the same time.

Bug Fixes

• Dynamic libraries: minor performance optimizations with preview computation.
• Slide Check: the check would modify slightly connector shapes.
• Excel Link: after updating a link in the UpdateAll dialog double-clicking would not open the link info dialog as expected.
• PPT Send: the user's email signature was no inserted in the email message.
• TOC: the SlideTitle option was not behaving as expected when empty.

New Features

• Dynamic library: script system now supports functions and intermediary variables.
• Dynamic library: multi-value fields can now be used in templates with a customizable separator. Ex: FRANCE || US || UK, can be displayed as France & UK & US).
• Dynamic library: when inserting one item per page, the destination placeholder is now removed (if empty).
• Libraries: moving files and folder with drag & drop, now requires confirmation (to avoid unwanted moves).
• Libraries (integrators only for now): a new insertion option called "Insert & Resize" was added to the library that automatically converts the elements of the inserted slide or deck to best fit the size of the current presentation when the latter and the inserted content have different slide formats (e.g. inserting a US Letter slide into a A4 presentation).

Bug Fixes

• Dynamic libraries: closing PowerPoint immediately after opening a DL could result in an the PowerPoint process not stopping.
• Dynamic libraries: format window could load incorrectly when previews where still being generated.
• Table of contents: removing subsections was blocked when the "subsections have divider slides" was unchecked.
• Table of contents: numbering in two-column TOCs was badly placed in some cases for templates using the scripted shapes algo.
• License Activation: automatic activation was not running for Azure AD enrolled devices.
• License Activation: the wrong error message was displayed to users when activation could not be completed due to ability to wirte to registry.

New Features

• TOC: (sub)section title editing directly in the divider slide is now supported for templates using the "Scripted Shapes" algorithm.
• Dynamic libraries: update user interface to select and clear filters.
• Dynamic libraries (beta): migration tool to convert an legacy tombstone module database into a dynamic library.
• Dynamic libraries (beta): administration tool to modify the list of formats.
• PowerBI Link: multi-value slicers are now editable through the update pane.

Bug Fixes

• The number of section titles that could fit in a first TOC slide would vary depending on the total number of sections in some specific cases.
• The XL Sizing guide would not work for users without integrator priviledges.
• Opening contextual menu dialogs when right clicking an XL link then hitting the return key would not work correctly.
• Maximize state of a workbook would not be reinstated after SmartCleaning it if at least two workbooks were open.

New Features

• XL Link: we now offer a PPT sizing guide allowing users to preview in XL the dimensions of the selected placeholder/shape in PPT. This way they can easily resize their XL content to best fit its target container in PPT.
• Add-in Notifications: our notification toaster has had its UI skin redone in order to match our most recent UI standards.

Bug Fixes

• SmartPainter pane would be a shrunk on Surface screens.
• A PPT update caused for some breadcrumb shapes to not fit to the text they contain as expected.
• When the end-user options to display reminders and sub-sections dividers were unticked one could not create sub-sections under specific conditions.
• The UpdateAll function that is not supported in Slide sorter view was still enabled.
• Secondary axis titles were not SmartFormatted as expected.

New Features

• PPT Table of Contents: one can now move a 3rd-level section.
• Smart Clean: the tool's UI has been redone to fit our most recent UI standards.
• AutoUpdate: the add-in now checks and downloads updates at every startup and at least every 24 hours if the user doesn't restart their add-in.
• Content generation module: end of the beta period. Module is now generally available under the name Dynamic libraries.
• Getty Image integration (beta): content generation module can now use Getty image as source.

Bug Fixes

• Library (introduced in 6.6.14): thumbnails would be blurry and, in specific circumstances, blank.

New Features

• PowerPoint Table of Contents: Add the ability to set a 3rd-level section.
• Content generation module (beta): scripting system now supports functions to move and resize shapes.
• Content generation module (beta): date format can be customized directly in the shape template, making it possible to use custom local date formats when generating Tombstones or CVs.
• Content generation module (beta): source data (CSV file, script and images) can now be stored in SharePoint.

Bug Fixes

• Provisioning: adding a new user already existing in a different account would stop the provisioning process. If this happens, the user is now moved to the provisioned account.

New Features

• Excel Formatting: chart title position is now taken into account in Smart Format. UpSlide takes the exact chart title position in Excel style and applies it to the destination chart. Available only if the customization was generated with this version and above.
• Library: tags are now displayed in alphabetical order in the filters menu.
• You can now propose a new feature by mail (instead of the website page).
• Content generation module (beta): Support for CSV files in a UNC path. Images and data can now be directly pulled from a network folder (previously, we needed an external API).
• Content generation module (beta): Administrators can now configure the module to run a script during generation of tombstones or CVs. For now, this script supports only concatenation of columns in the same text part and the deletion of shapes. This new feature makes it possible to handle advanced tombstones formats where the layout depends on the values found in the CSV.
• Library administration: it's now possible to add a slide to the library even if it's not coming from an UpSlide template currently configured on the machine. For example, a slide coming from an old template (now remove from the customization) can be used.

Bug Fixes

• Finalize & Send Mail: multiple UI fixes, especially in French.
• Waterfall: Gridlines are no more activated at creation. Also, the white line on top of waterfall charts has been removed.
• Stacked Waterfall: Total data labels would not have their color smart formatted.
• PowerPoint would crash at startup if the templates have to be regenerated.
• Title and legend of some charts would have a black background after Smart Format.
• Dynamic templates: fixed a bug which prevented the use of shape parts in the Slide master.

New Features

• Excel Formatting: chart SmartFormat now also formats the secondary axis when it exists in the exact same way as it formats the primary one.
• Library: we are now able to host read-only libraries on Azure Blob Storage containers.
• Content generation module (beta): in case connection is down, display a retry message to reload the pane (before user needed to restart PowerPoint).
• Content generation module (beta): added an account wide option to access directly the library tab via a ribbon button.
• Content generation module (beta): support of markdown syntax in the source text.

Bug Fixes

• The "go to source" feature would not work in Word on a text export placed within a shape.

New Features

• Content generation module (beta): display first 4 filters by default.
• Content generation module (beta): possibility to include ribbon buttons to directly access each content source.
• Excel number format dropdown: display the excel format code in tooltip and use it as preview when none can be computed.
• Added a keyboard shortcut for the Excel explorer button.

Bug Fixes

• Content generation module (beta): preserve sort order when adding filters.
• Content generation module (beta): field edition for legacy tombstone module was broken by 6.6.13.4.
• Multiple bug fixes when dealing with ctrl + alt + key shortcut handling.

Technical

• Integrator only: when masking table of content storage layout, we also make sure it will be ignored by spell check.
• Library stored in Azure blob storage: allow our library system to point to a blob storage (nothing functional yet).
• Error reporting: all settings files are included when mailing support.

New Features

• The SmartClean tool in Excel has had its performance significantly increased when cleaning names with errors.

Technical

• Add more logs to our content generation module (beta).
• Autoupdate settings (is it on, off or limited to a certain version) can now be controlled at user level.

New Features

• UpSlide now checks the license against UpSlide servers at each startup. In particular, this means that new options are immediately available to users.
• Dynamic templates now support dynamic slide parts where multiple slide decks can be pulled from the library based on a multiple-choice menu.
• Breadcrumbs navigation bars can now be set to not be displayed on specific contents slides.

Bug Fixes

• Users without a license would be displayed a confusing message saying their license would expire in one day.
• An error would be raised when SmartFormatting the same Excel table twice.
• Library "insert & resize" would not place an inserted shape in the expected position.

Bug Fixes

• Office 2016 build 13328.20292 prevents UpSlide link system to function with charts. We implemented a fix to workaround this Office bug.

Bug Fixes

• Office 2016 build 13328.20292 prevents UpSlide link system to function with charts. We made the error signalled to the user clearer and paved the way for a permanent fix.

New Features

• Excel Formatting

  • Number Format Gallery: End-users now have the ability to access directly a given number format set in their stylesheet using a dropdown list just like they were already able to do with background fills, borders and fonts.

• New Graphic Identity

  • Logo Update: across all 3 add-ins (i.e. XL, PPT and WRD) we have updated the UpSlide logos to the ones of our company’s new graphical identity.

• Clients Administration Site

  • Listing and Deleting users: administrators are now able to list and delete users in the new customer facing admin platform.

Bug Fixes

• Items cycle button in Excel would not cycle if two adjacent styles had the same background color.
• UpdateAll dialog could freeze PowerPoint or Excel if it was closed while a large number of links was being updated.
• Onboarding screen would through an error on a specific case.
• The wrong error message was being displayed to users when they where trying to publish sheets with forbidden characters in their names.
• UpslideMonitoringService.exe was not working properly on AzureAD machines.
• Non-admin users were having access to the export customization feature that should be available only for administrators.
• The list of options the user has access to displayed in the settings dialog was not being correctly refreshed when those were changed on the license server.
• The number of licenses/options displayed to the admin in the client admin site after a concurrent purchase/transfer was not the server value.
• The login page would not be the first to be displayed to the admin if his token expired.

Bug Fixes

• PBI Link Slicer editing would slice incorrectly when inputting the new value in date, numeric and boolean filters.

New Features

• Slide Check

  • Shortcut Entry: end-users are now able to set a keyboard shortcut to launch slide check.

• Clients Administration Site

  • Transfer Licenses: administrators are now able to transfer licenses between accounts they can manage like they could in the legacy site.

Bug Fixes

• Trying to edit anyway a PPT presentation marked as read-only was not refused and could fail.
• Users could make server activation requests with the phony email address "mail@example.net".
• Adding a PPT style with a horizontal line without outline would give a bad preview.
• Specific straight connectors in the PPT style gallery could not be applied to a compatible shape.
• Editing chart labels could corrupt a specific XL file.
• A search query typed during library synchronization would disappear once the latter was finished.
• The breadcrumb solution would fail if a subsection without a parent section was created.
• Administrators were able to buy high numbers of licenses (<500) on the client admin site.
• The display of validation errors was wrong in the settings page in the client admin site.

Bug Fixes

• Security Fixes (for more info <https://support.upslide.net/hc/en-us/articles/360016844099>).

New Features

• Excel Link

  • Replace Destination Selection: a new setting has been introduced to allow end-users to have target empty placeholders/shapes in PowerPoint/Word replaced by the export image when an Excel export is performed.

• Table of Contents

  • Breadcrumb Navigation: Integrators can now create templates that will have Breadcrumb navigation bars added to content slides when the TOC is refreshed.

• Clients Administration Site

  • New Graphical Identity Makeover: The clients administration site has had its UI completely remodelled to fit UpSlide’s new graphical identity.

Bug Fixes

• On a specific XL workbook a link creation was raising a multiple-source conflict it shouldn't at update.
• Administrators were able to export customizations with names containing special characters like "+" while they shouldn't be.
• Adding and applying a line style in PPT was failing on straight lines.
• While publishing the top shape of a stack on a PPT slide all shapes placed below it were also being stored in the library storage even if just the top shape was actually used later when inserting it into PPT presentations.
• The Finalize form validation in PPT was not working as expected.
• The enabling/disabling of the "Advanced Export" button in the ribbon was preventing the selection of entire columns with merged cells.
• The field order in the Template Wizard form was not necessarily the one defined in the wizard's config.

New Features

• Table of Contents

  • (Sub)Section name edit in divider: end-users are now able to edit the name of their (sub)sections directly in their dividers instead of doing it using the outline pane.
  • Appendix Divider Layout: integrators are now able to set a specific layout for appendix dividers so those can have a different background than standard sections.

• Excel Link

  • Default Export Options: the “preserve visibility” and “preserve width” options previously only available in advanced export can now be set to be used by default on exports created using the “(Resize &) Export” ribbon buttons.

• PBI Link

  • Edit Slicers: end-users can now edit single value slicers directly from PowerPoint.
  • Visuals with borders: end-users can now import Power BI visuals with a border.

Bug Fixes

• Default shortcuts stored in the config were not loading.
• SmartCheck would miss punctuation errors if they were placed before a new line.
• Shape insertion in the library would fail on PPT if the user was using the "Notes" view.

New Features

• Licenses Administration Site: administrators are now able to purchase both new licenses and options directly in the site.
• The "Advanced Export" button in Excel is now disabled if a single-cell is selected instead of having a message saying such selection is not supported by the feature as before.

Bug Fixes

• Library synchronization could fail when deleting and re-adding a library in the settings dialog.
• The import of PBI links could fail on some specific reports.
• Tombstones selection had a weird behaviour in some cases.

New Features

• Dynamically Generated Tombstones: integrators or administrators are now able to setup a tombstones DB in a few minutes using just an Excel file and a set of images (e.g. logos...) as those tombstones will be dynamically generated when end-users perform a search.
• Library Tags Filtering: end-users are now able to filter library contents using tags.
• Existing Library Tags Suggestions: administrators are now suggested existing tags matching their typed string when adding new tags to a library element.
• Licenses and Options Figures in Clients Admin Site: the Licensing page in the new client administration platform has the licenses and options figures like in the legacy one.
• Power BI PowerPoint link: Integrators can edit slicers with a single value

Bug Fixes

• The new UpdateAll window was very slow. Updating multiple hundreds of links could take up to 45minutes.
• The XL link correction ratio that was applied to exports has been removed so as to have a closer result to the actual source content.
• Power BI to PowerPoint link: Import window reconnects automatically when the token expires

New Features

Client Administration Site

• Team Libraries: Administrators are now able to edit their team libraries autonomously without having to rely on UpSlide consultants or support.
• Shared Repository: Administrators are now able to edit their shared repository path in the new site as they already could in the legacy one.

Tombstones: administrators are now able to add image path fields to their tombstones databases

Power BI to PowerPoint: integrators can now see the list of editable filters

Bug Fixes

• Slide check would raise a false negative font color warning when all levels of the corresponding placeholder were set to the same color
• Most used content list in the library would have a weird display behavior in some cases
• Library item names were not properly trimmed when being renamed

New Features

• Library: End-users are now able to see the tags added by their admins in the library items' preview.
• Tombstones: In order to prepare the road to the dynamic generation of tombstones, we have changed the way end-users preview them by displaying the first 15 Tombstones in the results and having them click on Display more to load the next 15.
• Dynamic Template: You can now access your Dynamic content opening the template gallery
• Page-level filter appear on page export from Power BI to PowerPoint
• Error message when the update of Power BI visual failed because they have been deleted

New Features

Library:

• Most used items: When starting a library search, end-users are now displayed their personal top 5 most used items and can easily access them.
• Library Item Tags: Administrators are now able to further categorize their library content by adding tags to their items.

Template Wizard:

• Shape from library: Integrators are now able to setup dynamic templates that will be able to pick and insert library shapes in the same way it was already possible to do with slides.

Excel Link:

• New features onboarding: End-Users upgrading their UpSlide version will now be presented in Excel new onboarding panels informing them of the new Link features that have been delivered in Q1.

Bug Fixes

• shortcuts deactivated by users were still kept active in some cases

New Features

• CSV Dynamic Lists (Template Wizard): dynamic list fields previously only available with an API integration can now also be set using a simple CSV file stored on a network share or an URL (no authentication support for now).
• Publish sheets individually in Excel Lib: users are now able to publish multiple sheets individually in their Excel Library just like they are able to do with slides in PowerPoint.

Bug Fixes

• library items being renamed could be drag and dropped by administrators are yield unexpected behaviors
• Date filter value of Power BI visuals look like a date and not like millions

New Features

• Move Library Items: administrators are now able to drag and drop elements from one folder to another within the same library.
• Persistent Library Zoom Level: End-users have now their library preview zoom-level preserved across their sessions for each add-in (PowerPoint, Excel and Word).
• UpdateAll Dialog Skin: the UpdateAll dialog has had its UI skin fully changed to fit our most recent UI standards.
• Power BI to PowerPoint link is ready to be used with improved update panel UX and new onboarding video

Bug Fixes

• PPT or Word export could render unexpected results at the update on some very specific cases
• Server end-points were answering with "400" error codes for unknown users when they shouldn't.

New Features

• Advanced Export: A new Advanced Export feature has been added in Excel. This feature allows for users to create Excel links with additional update options such as preserving cells' visibility and export image width.
• Highlight Links: users are now able to highlight all linked tables and charts in their active Excel sheet.
• Auto SmartFormat Team Setting: a new team setting can now be set by UpSlide integrators allowing them to turn on and off auto SmartFormat for all users of a given account.
• Universal Agenda Team Setting: UpSlide integrators are now able to set on and off the Universal Agenda setting that allows an account's users to easily insert an agenda slide when working on a "non-UpSlide" presentation.
• Facing Pages with one-side printing: when two-side printing is off, print versions' slide numbering will be adjusted so that it matches its equivalent with the two-side printing on.

Bug Fixes

• Some multiple-source conflicts that could be automatically solved where being asked to be solved manually by the the users.
• UpdateAll dialog was failing when being opened on some specific circumstances.
• Axis ticklabels were not being correctly applied by the chart SmartFormat.
• Data labels borders were not correctly applied by the chart SmartFormat.
• Corrupted installations were not immediately detected as expected.
• Some Excel dialogs had cursor spinners displayed when the mouse was not over them which could be misleading for users.

New Features

• The Link Information dialog in PowerPoint has had its skin improved to better fit our current UI standards.
• The Go to last export feature for WRD exports has been improved to select and focus the exported object in the destination file.

Bug Fixes

• Cancelling a text export would fail since the recent change of dialog skin.
• Inserting a table from the library on Office 2010 could fail in some cases.
• Some labels were missing in the dialog of the Go to last export feature informing the user the last exported file could not be found.

New Features

• End-users are now able to activate a setting that results in all native charts created being automatically Smart Formatted.
• End-users are now able to choose on a given presentation if Table of Contents reminders should be visible or not.

Bug Fixes

• Shortcuts management was improved to better function when working across multiple keyboards.
• Go to last export/update could leave some zombie processes that are now properly removed once they are no longer needed.

New Features

TOC

• End-users are now able to (de)activate in their presentation's TOC properties the display of sub-section titles in the TOC slide as well as specifying if sub-sections should have divider slides or not.

Excel Links

• The Go to last export feature delivered in the last version for PowerPoint exports has now been made available for _Word exports as well.
• The Update Successful dialog has had its look & feel improved to better fit our new UI quality requirements.

Bug Fixes

• Issues impacting library loading and search performance especially in Word have been solved.
• The behavior of the freeze function, when applied to small shapes, has been improved when a whole slide is frozen.
• A fix on the library folder renaming, which could fail in a specific case, has been corrected.

New Features

Excel Link

• Multiple-source conflicts caused by copying a linked chart in the same excel sheet are now resolved without the need for user intervention.
• Users are now able to go to the PPT presentation (WRD exports are not yet supported) to which an XL chart was last exported.
• When updating a PPT link without a valid source XL file open, users are now able to let UpSlide try to open the last source file that was used to update the link.
• The text export format (i.e. export as text or image) prompt has had its look & feel improved to better fit our new UI quality requirements.

Excel Charts

• Chart SmartFormat has been enhanced to now set nearly all possible chart element styles available (Axes, Title, Legend, Data Label, Gridlines, Outline....).
• One can now convert the last series of a stacked bar chart into total data labels if the series' values correspond to a total of the others.

Bug Fixes

• Library image insertion in the header could fail sometimes in Word.
• XL formatting features could fail in some very specific cases.
• Ctrl-Z undoes on tables SmartFormat was mistakenly deactivated.
• Creating a print version could fail in some specific cases.
• Exporting XL chart or table could fail on coauthored Word documents.
• Library slides being inserted directly in a new presentation were not raising the expected outdated content warnings.

New Features

• XL Formatting: In order to help users save time when complying to their company's graphical charter, the border and font formatting features have been extended to also be supported when working with charts. The font formatting feature has also been enhanced to allow users to define a dedicated style list in their theme file for increased flexibility for users formatting their cells and charts.
• Sharepoint: The SharePoint library synchronization has been improved for better performance and overall a better administrator experience.
• Licencing: A new licensing option better suited for large corporate clients has been added.
• UI Improvements: Many minor UI improvements such as texts and icon updates have been processed for a better application look and feel.

Bug Fixes

• XL Formatting: minor bugs on SmartFormat, number format and border styles were corrected
• XL Modeling: new advanced paste and fast fill functions were enhanced to cover some cases in which behavior wasn't what a user would expect
• XL Operations: multiple and divide by a thousand were not working on accounting and currency cell formats
• Dynamic Templates: wizard text inputs weren't validated as the user filled them in
• Slide Check: double space warnings were not raised in some specific cases
• PPT in general: ctrl+shirft+arrow navigation was not working is some cases
• Settings Window: window could be resized until some items were made invisible

New Features

• XL Explorer Pane: a new pane to help users easily find and navigate through their open workbooks and sheets
• XL Formatting: Background Color and Custom Borders "cycle" buttons have been complemented by a dropdown list for faster access to cycle items.

Background Color fill which until now could only be applied to cells, can now also be applied to chart elements such as series, points...

An analogous combination of "cycle" button and dropdown for font styles has been added to the formatting section.

Finally, the latter has been reorganized to help users find the desired styling features more easily.

• XL Advanced Paste: four new advanced paste functions (Preserve Formulas, Duplicate Formulas, Row Heights and Number Formats Only) have been added to help users save time when building their workbooks and sheets.
• XL Fast Fill: two new fast fill functions and shortcuts (Fast Fill Right and Fast Fill Down) have been added to help users save precious clicks and key strokes when propagating content in their sheets.
• Slide Check: our Font Deviates from Layout check now also verifies if the font color is compatible with what's defined in the layout.
• Sharepoint: we are now able to log into Sharepoint using a single-tenant application and to push autoupdates through Sharepoint folders.

Bug Fixes

• PPT Library: migrating from previous versions could cause undesirable behaviors in some specific cases. Publishing connectors could fail in some cases.
• Slide Check: Misaligned Shapes warning correction could fail in a very specific case.
• Word Templates: template preview could be empty in some cases.
• Others: dialog boxes could not be properly maximized across multiple screens with different resolutions.

New features

• Ability to insert library slides into a new presentation directly
• New partial finalize feature
• Template Wizard: Tombstones, a few UI improvements, ability to set up static lists fields
• Ability to support Sharepoint on Premises libraries
• Ability to set a custom tab name

Bug Fixes

• (Un)hide text export could fail in some specific cases
• Outdated slides warning wasn't shown if presentation's first slide had been deleted
• Excel Link update failed when Upslide was deactivated on Excel
• Saving a PrintVersion to a OneDrive synched folder could fail
• Smart Track Precedents was missing in the Shortcuts tab in Settings dialog
• Library items with numerical names were wrongly ordered in the preview

New Features

• a new type of library item called Dynamic Template is now supported. It allows users to easily generate presentations using library slides and external data sources (i.e. through APIs).
• 2 new warning types (font difference with layout and shape compliance with theme) have been added to the slide check.

Bug Fixes

• slide check pane was improved for better navigation.
• improved library synchronisation for better performance when hosted on sharepoint.
• improved support of very specific cases for easier library migrations.
• partial customization exports who are no longer relevant were removed to prevent issues with customization versioning.

Bug fixes

• Improved performances for the dynamic template system.
• iManage integration now works with custom echo and portable.
• Library publish: fixed a bug where some shapes with connectors could not be published in the library.

New features

• Beta version of our PowerPoint dynamic template system

Bug fixes

• Waterfall generation could fail when data format was date or currency
• Formatting was sometimes lost when publishing in the library

New features

• Libraries can now be stored and fully synchronized on SharePoint.
• Tombstones can be synchronized from SharePoint.
• Export appearance is now a per link option. Meaning that when updating a link the option used for exporting is also used.

Bug fixes

• Autoupdate and statistics collection now supports authenticated proxies

New features

• Complete redesign of UpSlide ribbon: new icons, a new layout to simplify onboarding
• Native Office buttons are now available in UpSlide!
• Complete redesign of the Send feature in PowerPoint to simplify the UX.
• Save feature in PowerPoint is replaced by Finalize. Designed to make a presentation ready for Sharing, this feature makes a copy of the current presentation and applies of a series of operations on the presentation. As of V6.4, possible operations are: updating the table of content, breaking Excel links (in particular to hide the hyperlinks materializing text exports), hiding cross-references (for the same reason), and saving as pdf. New options will be added in the coming month.
• Operations in Excel can now be applied either to all numeric cells (formula, links and constants alike) or only to numeric constants.
• Operations in Excel now supports undo (Ctrl+Z)
• Library system now has a default library option. This content is used as long as the location of the library has not been set. Very useful for deployment for multiple teams, where some of the teams have not yet set up their libraries.

Bug fixes

• Force compatibility mode on install for Word, PowerPoint and Excel when using multiple displays: to avoid issues with task panes.

New features

• Redesign of the settings window. We reorganized the settings window and made it compatible with a Surface connected to a secondary monitor.
• Add more chart customization. Label style and position can be customized on the waterfall chart.
• Improved library filters. All the library folders and files can now be filtered by type of content.

New features

• Undo in Excel for 'Resize & Export'

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug where Office could take a dozen seconds or more before closing, or appear to close when it wasn't really closed yet
• 'Resize & Export' of a range doesn't cause the cells indent to be lost anymore
• Fixed the '--silent' command line option in Azure Sync (see here)

New features

• Redesign of the Word library. New content is automatically synchronized with all the team. The Word library now supports shapes, in addition of text and documents.
• Synchronisation of shape files in the 3 Office applications (Word, Excel and PowerPoint). For example, a shape published from PowerPoint is accessible on Excel and Word too.
• Multi-admin tombstone system. A new tombstone system allows several admins to manage different tombstone databases. The admins can choose which team have access to the databases.

New features

• Slide check: new check to detect highlighted text

Bug fixes

• Stacked waterfall had some rounding issue
• Autoupdate feature compatible with the latest version of Office 2016
• Quotes are accepted in email addresses

The new version includes an onboarding for new users and some minor bug fixes.

New features

• Welcome window
• Redesign of the activation window
• Tip windows that highlight the main features of UpSlide

Bug fixes

• Setup prerequisites

New features

• Evolution of library navigation in PowerPoint
• The brand new Library system in Excel. Multiple content sources, simplified administration, simplified permission system, full-text search... You name it!
• New user onboarding in PowerPoint
• Usage Statistics metadata can now be retrieved. Sample usage: see which items in the library were most inserted
• The library is now compatible with Google Drive

Bug fixes

• Link update in Word could still fail when 'track changes' was active

New features

• Rename folder in PowerPoint library
• Evolution of library UI
• Waterfall label positions and format can now be customized to depend on the sign of the effect.

Bug fixes

• Ignore accentuation in PowerPoint library search
• UpSlide link system is now robust to a parallel install of multiple office versions (TypeLib issue)
• Fix multiple usage statistics bug
• Reduce the occurrence of DPI issues with UpSlide link

New features

• Major improvement to library ergonomy
• All team settings can now be centrally managed and updated (library location, export options, support address...)
• Waterfall charts source worksheet is now hidden instead of very hidden
• All communications between UpSlide and our servers are now in https and encrypted with an AES 256 algorithm
• Library status is now directly accessible in the settings form
• An additional option for UpSlide link: by default, an export is made using the "As displayed" option in Excel. It is now possible to use the "As printed" options (useful when using multiple monitors and scaling).
• New admin action in the library: create a new folder
• UpSlide link can now function with the track changes option on in Word

Bug fixes:

• Slide check: Library content is now updated automatically before running the slide check.
• Marimekko: fix a memory issue.

New features

• Each user can now choose not to send usage statistics
• Brand new Library system. Multiple content sources, simplified administration, simplified permission system, full-text search... You name it!

New features

• UpSlide is now compatible Google Drive File Stream
• When looking for UpSlide updates, the local repository is preferred over UpSlide servers

New features

• Beta version of UpSlide new library system
• New install switch to allow install while Office processes are running

New features

• 14 days grace period automatically granted when the licence ends
• Tombstone module: new deals can now be added using a PowerPoint file
• UpSlide is now compatible with a single user install on a windows server
• Waterfall: it is now possible to change source
• Excel to PowerPoint/Word link: when files are stored in IManage, UpSlide displays the document name version and ID
• Deployment: the local content (tombstone database and local cache for the libraries), stored by default in the user profile can now be redirected using the applicationsettings.xml file

Bug fixes

• PowerPoint: new template button failed to activate the backstage view on certain configurations
• Excel, PowerPoint/Word link: when the scaling of the primary monitor changes (in windows 8 and windows 10), the enhanced metafile format is no longer usable. This behavior can be bypassed in certain particular configurations (ex: office 2016 on windows 10) but for others, UpSlide falls back to bmp format until the next restart
• Excel, PowerPoint link: increased performance when exporting into native PowerPoint tables
• PowerPoint: when refreshing table of content, the content inserted in the footers is trimmed to avoid new lines and spaces
• All applications: shortcuts are now active right after activation

New features

• Automatically try to retrieve the "Active Directory" Windows user mail and use it to activate UpSlide at first launch
• Support.exe "v1": This small support tool can detect and fix various technical issues impacting your system and UpSlide install

Bug fixes

• PowerPoint: When no Upslide template is set as default, the New Presentation shortcut will choose the first template in the list instead of opening a blank presentation

New features

• PowerPoint: Template list is now directly available from the file/new button
• PowerPoint: the default UpSlide template is now used as a default PowerPoint document
• Modeling module: new feature to insert a table of content listing all visible worksheets and providing a hyperlink to each

Bug fixes

• Performance optimization for large tombstone database
• Fixed and improved Smart track keyboard navigation

New features

• Customizations can now be exchanged via a SharePoint site
• Autoupdate: UpSlide can now update automatically from a network folder or a web API

New features

• Slide check: largely reduced the number of false positives in shape alignment warnings
• Word library: compatibility with protected documents
• Tombstones: less click needed to arrange shapes in default use case

Bug fixes

• Multiple bug fixes/optimizations of the UpSlide link system

New features

• Slide check: sort warnings by type
• Slide check: new user interface
• PowerPoint shape style: new deletion window with additional features

Bug fixes

• Improved previews in the Word library for inline shapes
• Large improvement of the table of contents refresh speed

New features

• Notifications when new UpSlide customization is ready to be installed
• Improved slide conversion results when the slide size changes
• Slide conversion now impacts shape fonts

Bug fixes

• Slide conversion now compatible with the latest PowerPoint 2016 version

Bug fixes

• Alignment issues were fixed in the Insert/Edit window from the Tombstone module.
• Fix text export in PowerPoint tables (2010 and 2013).
• Fix crash issues in PowerPoint 2010.

New features

• Brand new user interface for the slide converter. This feature is now accessible to all users.
• Publish, Facing pages and Find the source features are now compatible with files saved on SharePoint.

New features

• UpSlide installer can also deploy a Windows Service that can prevent UpSlide from being deactivated. To deploy it, simply add "DeployReactivationService=1" to the command line.

New features

• UpSlide language can now be changed directly through the Settings menu.
• Export options can now be changed directly through the Settings menu.
• New option for UpSlide link: you can now force specific formatting for the exported images. For example, you can force all fonts in grey in PowerPoint/Word while retaining a custom formatting in Excel.
• Tombstone module: database can now be imported/Exported from/to an Excel file.

New features

• Slide check: review your presentation to ensure compliance of your content and the quality of your design. First checks included: double spaces, misaligned shapes, empty placeholders (ex: XXXX), punctuation spacings (ex: space before: in English) and compliance check for library content (warns you for every item inserted from the library that has since been updated).
• Outdated items pop-up: when you open a presentation that contains outdated library elements, you receive a message urging you to run the slide check.
• Major improvements to slide converter in the presence of old presentations created with Office 2003.
• Slide lib can now be accessed from any presentation.
• Default shortcuts can now be deployed along with UpSlide.

New features

• Arrange pane: new design, new options for margins and the possibility to split your shapes on several slides!
• Tombstone: many small improvements and a new design.
• Shape library: you can now insert shapes in several slides in a single click.

New admin features

• New Template file to customize Excel styles.

New features

• Introduction of the “Shape Styles” feature in PowerPoint, to store, manage and apply your appearance preferences to any shape.
• The "Number to Words" feature in Word lets you select the desired language and currency in which your numbers are expressed.
• The "Tombstones" feature now keeps track of creation and modification dates of every Tombstone in the database.
• Small UI adjustments have been made to the "Tombstones" feature as well.
• The customization shared folder path supports windows environment variables such as %userprofile%.
• Word:

New admin features

• Introduction of the “Slide Converter” in PowerPoint. This feature allows administrators to convert slides from one slide master to another while automatically adapting its layout to the destination presentation.
• Introduction of the “Shape Styles” feature in PowerPoint, as an administrator, you will manage the Team Styles which you will be able to share with your workgroup.

Bug fixes

• Fix Multiple issues with libraries and task panes.
• Fix "Undo" issue in Excel.
• Fix Thumbnail generation has been improved.

New features

• Introduction of the “Tombstones” feature in PowerPoint, to manage your tombstone database, with facilitated search and filtering options, and insertion in presentations.
• The “Go-To Source” feature now directly focuses on the source.
• The “Go-To Source” feature now handles conflicts and hidden sheet.
• The titles of Waterfall and Marimekko charts are now linked to the title cell.
• The “Number to Words” feature now allows you to choose the currency.

New admin features

• Some UpSlide features can be called directly from VBA macros.

Bug fixes

• Fixed multiple issues with libraries and task panes.
• Fixed some issues that occurred when the Windows file explorer preview pane is on.
• in PowerPoint, some links were not properly restored after disabling “hide text exports”.
• in Excel, you can export text to a table cell in Word.
• Ssolved conflicts in the “Update All” window are now properly displayed as such.

New features

• A new "Display Source" button for faster access to the available data sources.
• A major upgrade of UpSlide link system to avoid creating conflicts when duplicating charts or worksheets.
• Introduction of the compliance checks feature in PowerPoint.
• Additional command-line option for UpSlide setup: KeepExistingConfig (to allow an update of UpSlide without modifying an already installed customization).
• The first version of our Magic master converter button.
• Smart track can now be un-docked to preserve screen real estate.
• The "Update All" feature can now update several presentations simultaneously.
• UpSlide link now works on shared workbooks.

Bug fixes

• Publish and mail features now preserve default signature in Outlook.
• Multiple fixes in the publish feature (default location was not always stored properly, attachment could not be saved using the presentation name...).

New features

• A new version of the customization exchange system (download in the background using BITS).
• As an administrator, when exporting, UpSlide can detect changes inside each of the libraries.
• Every missing customization is now installed simultaneously (while only the most recent was installed in the past).
• Insert section though the Outline pane also updates the table of content.

Bug fixes

• Fix: Marimekko's now support columns smaller than 1% of the total width.
• Fix: UpSlide undo could cause the file size to grow.
• Fix: conflict with DropBox caused Table of Content to crash.
• Fix: Waterfall could fail to detect the position of intermediary results when too many effects were null.

Bug fixes

• Fix: UpSlide could crash PowerPoint or Word when editing embedded workbooks.
• Fix: Publish feature in PowerPoint could fail if "remove duplicate dividers was checked".

New features

• Publish feature in PowerPoint: selected slides can now be sent or saved in one click and undergo a series of operations necessary before publishing: remove duplicate dividers, hide text exports or mark presentation as final.
• In PowerPoint, you can now have items at the root level of your Slide Library (if your customization allows it)
• Basic support of 3D references in SmartTrack Precedents (Excel)

Bug fixes

• Fix: in PowerPoint, when creating a new presentation from a template, the Home pane is now activated.
• Fix: in the Outline Pane in PowerPoint, renaming now preselects the whole text, and the shortcut (F2) is disabled on the presentation and title slides.
• Fix various small bugs of the PowerPoint Slide Library (some issues with drag & drop, context menus, regeneration of the library when corrupted).
• Fix proper error message when trying to export/update an Excel chart if that chart is a member of a grouped shape.

We are officially releasing UpSlide One, a version designed for individuals and very small teams, along with a new logo.

New features

• UpSlide now supports Windows 10.
• The Arrange Form has been replaced by the more user-friendly Arrange Pane.
• Lock Aspect Ratio option for the Smart Painter in PowerPoint.
• Removed the useless first level folder of the Slide Library for some users.

New features for modeling module

• New button to calculate and insert the CAGR of a range of cells.

New admin features

• Recursively insert all the slides in a Slide Library folder.

New deployment features

• Option to disable pop-ups signalling new customization.
• Option to force the use of a specific mail client.

Bug fixes

• Fix: refreshing the TOC or adding a new section doesn't require to restart PowerPoint to be able to click the hyperlinks in Slide Show mode.
• Fix: forms always open in the current display if you are using more than one.
• Fix: selecting part of the name of an item you are renaming in the outline pane doesn't crash.

UpSlide no longer supports Microsoft XP.

The necessary version of the .NET framework is now 4.5 Full.

New features

• UpSlide is now signed with a SHA256 certificate deployed alongside the software.

New features

• Delete all UpSlide link: new feature to prevent any update for data imported from Excel.
• Shortcuts can now be deactivated instead of simply unassigned.
• Navigation pane opens automatically when inserting sub-sections.
• Find the source form now closes automatically after Update.

New features for modeling module

• Fine-tuning of the Smart track feature: handling of dynamic names and merge cells, F5 to refresh after cell edition, performance optimization...

Bug fixes

• Fix: find the source could fail to display potential sources if some of the Excel windows were minimized.
• Fix: drag and drop in libraries could be troublesome to initiate.
• Fix: export in Word as text now preserves newlines and bullet points.
• Fix: support for Office 2016 shared mode during export and update.
• Fix: facing page module could fail if the source presentation was saved on a network drive.
• Fix: thumbnail size in the libraries was dependent upon resolution and Windows zoom level.

New features

• CAGR: compound annual growth rate can be directly inserted in Excel charts!
• UpSlide is now compatible with Office 2016
• Office chart templates can be deployed along with UpSlide
• Simplified support with a log window directly accessible from UpSlide
• Word buttons are organized more efficiently

New features for modeling module

• IfError: to wrap all the selected formulas in an iferror function
• Autocolor can now detect direct plugs in formulas (ex: "=A1*A2+3" is detected as a plug)
• Simplified support with a log window directly accessible
• A entirely new take on our S_mart Track_ feature: new interface, new inner workings and vastly improved scope and performances.

Bug fixes

• Removed UpSlide charts sensitivity to Excel default template
• Mail features: date in the attachment name is now formatted using the system default format
• Clean feature now supports files stored on SharePoint

New features

• Simplified UpSlide activation procedure.
• Improved Keyboard navigation for UpSlide Smart Track feature.

Bug fixes

• Task panes in Ppt: libraries and outline panes are now totally immune to multi-window cancel close in PowerPoint 2010 and 2013.
• Many UI fixes when using UpSlide on a Microsoft Surface Pro.
• Suppressed screen flickering associated with the previews in the library.
• The customization exchange system is now more robust to read/write access issues.

New features

• Increase speed for the Smart Check (a few minutes for 300 pages long documents).
• A report of action carried out during the cleaning of a Workbook.

Bug fixes

• Arrange: the recommended container was wrong if one of the selected shapes could contain all the others.
• New diagnostic module for UpSlide: it can automatically re-activate the Add-In in case of unwanted de-activation (no need to go through the 2 step Options\Addins\Disabled items process: https://upslide.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201918858-UpSlide-menu-has-disappeared-how-do-I-get-it-back-).

New features

• Word smart check: a new pane to analyze your document and list potential typos and inconsistencies.
• Waterfall and Marimekko: title can now be automatically inserted.

New features

• New icons.
• Text Export in PowerPoint: the content of Excel cells can now be directly linked to text in PowerPoint (extends the existing export as image feature).
• Clean Excel files: removes unused cell styles, broken link, broken names and reduces the size of workbooks.
• Prepare Excel files. Apply of series of operations before sharing a workbook: select A1 cell removes comments, optimize size, replace formulas by their value...
• Undo formatting in Excel: table formatting operations by UpSlide can now be undone though the native Excel undo mechanism (Ctrl+Z or undo button).
• Update success message can now be disabled.

Bug fixes

• Fixed number formatting issues in Waterfall and Marimekko charts.
• Improved encryption for the communication between UpSlide server and UpSlide client.

New features

• Prerequisites: VSTO runtime 10.0.31129 is now sufficient to install UpSlide.
• Libraries, item name can now be up to 50 characters long.

New features

• Word: new button to convert number to words
• Word (starting in 2010): all UpSlide features compatible with Word native undo (Ctrl+Z)
• PowerPoint (starting in 2010): all UpSlide features compatible with PowerPoint native undo (Ctrl+Z)
• Word: the content of Excel cells can now be directly linked to text in Word (extends the existing export as image feature)

Bug fixes

• Keyboard navigation optimized in panes and dialog boxes (part 1).

New features

• Shortcut to rename items in libraries (F2 to start, enter to validate, Esc to cancel).
• Tooltips in UpSlide ribbon display current shortcut keys and not default ones.
• More flexibility to customize horizontal and vertical spacing on the table of contents.
• Possibility to open all Excel source files when doing an update all in PowerPoint or Word.
• Improved navigation between potential Excel sources using the find the source form in PowerPoint and Word.
• Two new design features in PowerPoint spread height and spread width, to copy the dimensions of a shape.
• Word library can now contain entire document templates.

Bug fixes

• Insertion of non-inline shapes from the library in Word 2010.

New features

• Unnumbered sections in PowerPoint table of content
• Specific numbering for Appendix in PowerPoint table of content

New features

• Automatic yearly license renewal.
• Simplified process to activate UpSlide.
• Administrators can deactivate UpSlide for users leaving their team.
• New button to update the axis scale of all the Waterfall charts.
• Merging module for UpSlide customization. Admin can now export only a part of each library. Greatly simplifies collaboration between administrators.
• The installer now supports click to run installations of Office 2013.

New features

• An additional option for the Table of Content: do not display slides with no title.
• Unique setup file to handle all user and single-user install.
• New custom UpSlide chart: stacked waterfall.
• A new feature for the update all form: possibility to pre-load the sources without actually updating.

Bug fixes

• Compatibility with Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop (V >= 6).
• Fix of clipboard issues responsible for random bugs when using export, libraries or table of content.
• Faster smart track and auto color.
• Shape and slide library can no longer be displayed at the same time to limit memory usage.

New features

• Licenses are no longer bound to a single machine but to the OS user. Single Licence code is now valid for all computers as long as user and domain are the same.
• UpSlide usage statistics can now be sent every week to our central server. You can get information about who is using UpSlide and which feature is mostly used. The communication with our server is optional and can easily be turned down.

New features

• Smart Track pane to navigate very easily between the precedent and dependents of a formula (all can be done with keyboard only)
• Autocolor: UpSlide can automatically color cells depending on their content (constant, formula, link...).

New features

• Report Generator now allows retrieving data from PowerPoint to update the source Excel file
• Facing pages module to print part of a presentation in two-sided mode. In edition mode, the user can mark slide as facing pages. He can then generate a print version of his presentation where blank pages will be inserted in the right places to allow two-side printing (useful to display charts or table to complement information found on the page facing it when printed).
• Delete duplicate reminder option. If subsections have dividers when the print version is generated, the section dividers immediately followed by a subsection divider are deleted

New features

• New looks for the libraries
• Find the source now accessible through right-click (Office 2010 or greater needed)
• Mail sheets now accessible though right-click (Office 2010 or greater needed)
• Libraries can now be used entirely with keyboard shortcuts (arrows, Tab, Enter, Ctrl + F....)
• New TOC option: inserting text before section numbers in dividers (ex: sec 1.)
• Table sorter in PowerPoint (sorts alphabetically the contents of a table in PowerPoint)
• Server licenses can now be purchased to activate UpSlide for all the users of a computer

New features

• Search field in Word, Excel and PowerPoint libraries
• Detail view for each element of the libraries (to detail contents, date of last update, description...)
• Possibility to add tags to library items. Very useful to speed and leverage the search feature
• Smart Painter now also copies adjustments (<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff744037%28v=office.15%29.aspx>)

• Partial Export/Import of customizations. Allows to :

  • Diminish the size of customization files
  • Several administrators can work simultaneously on various part of the customization
  • Possibility to back up and restore only a part of the customization
• Automatic Update of the table of content options for existing presentation when the administrator releases a new customization

Bug fixes

• Compatibility with the track changes mode in PowerPoint
• Compatibility with the final mode of PowerPoint
• Paths of more than 218 characters in Excel library are now supported