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 the link inside this file.

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: Yan Min Oo, Yu Ting

Senior Devs: Fiona Chang, Hanyang Liu, Victor Hazali, Oh Shunhao

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

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