The typical PowerPoint presentation isn't very interesting. Walls of text or bullet points, with few visuals - it's no wonder audiences find it hard to pay attention. Your slides don't have to be this way, and it doesn't take a whole lot of effort to make them better. PowerPointLabs makes creating engaging PowerPoint presentations easy. Check out what it can do for you here: http://powerpointlabs.info

Contributing To PowerPointLabs

Interested to contribute? Please take a moment to review the guidelines for contributing and the design.

Dev Prerequisites

0. Install Office 2016 or 2013 with PowerPoint.
1. Install SourceTree (recommended), GitHub for Windows, or at least, Git.
2. Install Visual Studio 2015.
3. Install VSTO for IDE (Visual Studio Tools for Office, AKA the Office SDK):
   for VS2015 - http://aka.ms/OfficeDevToolsForVS2015
   
4. Install Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.

Setup

0. Fork and clone the source codes from this repo.
1. Turn off Office Version Upgrading: Open the solution PowerPointLabs\PowerPointLabs.sln >> open Tools (menu) >> Options >> Office Tools >> Project Migration >> uncheck ‘Always upgrade to installed version of Office’.
2. Set up External Office Program: Open ‘PowerPointLabs’ Properties >> Debug >> select ‘Start external program’ and choose POWERPNT.exe in the Office folder. Ensure that both Debug and Release configurations have set up this.
3. Run the solution by pressing F5 and then PowerPointLabs tab will appear in the PowerPoint ribbon. If you have installed PowerPointLabs add-in, you may have to uninstall it first and rebuild the solution.
4. If failed to build PowerPointLabs solution, try to install VSTO for PowerPoint from this link.

Testing

0. Click Build (menu) >> Rebuild Solution.
1. Click Test (menu) >> Windows >> Test Explorer.
2. In the open Test Explorer window, click Group by Traits >> right click FT >> click Run Selected Tests. During the test, DO NOT move the mouse & ensure the Windows UI is in English.
3. In the open Test Explorer window, click Group by Traits >> right click UT >> click Run Selected Tests.

Current Dev Team

Mentors: Damith C. Rajapakse, Xie Kai

Team Leads: Ian Teo, Ong Heng Le

Senior Devs: Ang Shi Ya, Jamos Tay, Kenneth Loh, Syed Abdullah

Area	Responsibilities	Lead	Co-Lead	Past Leads
Community	Community growth, user support	Kenneth	Heng Le	Fiona
Docs	Website, tutorials, dev docs	Jamos	Shi Ya	Fiona
DevOps	Installer, issue tracker, releases, CI	Syed	Kenneth	Hanyang
Quality	Code quality, design quality	Heng Le	Jamos	Kai
Testing	Test coverage, test automation	Ian	Syed	Kai
UI/UX	UI matters, UX matters	Shi Ya	Ian

Feature	Lead	Co-Lead	Past Leads
AgendaLab	Syed		Shunhao, Huang Da
AnimationLab (d)	Ian		Raunak
CaptionsLab	Kenneth		Jerome
ColorsLab	Ian	Heng Le	Karan
CropLab	Heng Le	Jamos	Raunak
EffectsLab	Ian	Heng Le	Fiona
HighlightLab	Syed		Karan
NarrationsLab	Kenneth		Jerome
PasteLab	Syed	Heng Le
PictureSlideLab	Shi Ya		Xie Kai
PositionsLab	Jamos		Oswell, Victor
ResizeLab	Min Oo	Yu Ting
ShapesLab (d)	Ian	Kenneth	Huang Da
ShortcutsLab	Heng Le	Ian	Raunak
SyncLab	Ian	Kenneth
TimerLab	Shi Ya	Heng Le
ZoomLab	Shi Ya		Raunak

Features marked as (d) are deprecated because PowerPoint has added similar features in the recent versions.

Acknowledgements

PowerPointLabs is developed at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore, with funding from an NUS Learning Innovation Fund, Technology (LIFT) grant.

License

PowerPointLabs is released under GPLv2.