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Free PowerPoint Plugins and Add-ins You Need To Check Immediately!

Shasa Azzahra
Shasa Azzahra
Free PowerPoint Plugins and Add-ins You Need To Check Immediately!

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Free PowerPoint Plugins and Add-ins You Need To Check Immediately!

Designing professional PowerPoint slides is not easy for most people. But the reason for that is because most people don’t know that we have the tricks to make designing professional PowerPoint slides far easier than you imagine.

The tricks are called plugins and add-ins that you can install alongside your PowerPoint and access directly from inside the software while designing. You might have heard about plugins and add-ins from your web browser, but don’t you know that your PowerPoint has it too?

Just like how plugins and add-ins can make your web browser more suitable and personalized to your taste, the presence of those tools can improve your productivity. And with the same benefits, free PowerPoint plugins and add-ins exist.

Wait, free? Yes, many free PowerPoint plugins and add-ins exist, and here in this article, we will show you some of the best free PowerPoint plugins and add-ins to improve your productivity.

Before you get those free PowerPoint plugins and add-ins


The first thing that we want to talk about is, a few methods you need to understand to use the free PowerPoint plugin and add-ins. And of course, before getting into the ‘what,’ let’s talk about the ‘how,’ which is how to download and install the plugins and add-ins.

You surely don’t want to spend your aesthetical energy to download plugins, don’t you? That’s why, because we are the kindest people you on the internet, we will cover the easiest three of them (while actually, those are the only methods available, LOL).

Here are the three methods you can easily practice:

1. Install from PowerPoint

The first way you can get the plugins and add-ins is by downloading directly from Microsoft PowerPoint. Just launch Microsoft PowerPoint, click the “Insert” ribbon, select “Add-ins Group,” choose “Get Add-Ins.” The steps are so easy.

You will open the Store pane where you can browse for free PowerPoint plugins and add-ins. You can install the chosen free PowerPoint plugins and add-ins by simply clicking them and install. In this step, make sure you permit them to Microsoft to allow the installation process.

2. Install from AppSource

The second method to install free PowerPoint plugins and add-ins is by visiting the Microsoft AppSource to access browsers like any other website. Not only for PowerPoint, but you can also actually get any plugins and add-ins for any software.

The steps are also accessible. First, choose the plugin or add-in that you want to install, click “Get It Now,” sign in with your Microsoft Account if you have not done it, give permissions and wait until the installation process is complete.

3. By getting it from third-party websites

The other step is by installing from third-party websites like how you downloaded software for your PC. In this case, the different website usually provides various methods to download. And in case you have never downloaded anything from the internet, relax.

The websites usually provide the instructions. And if the websites do not offer it, you can find a download button in the page and click it. However, sometimes you may find fake download buttons on the page. To prevent clicking the fake button, the tip is to drag the button around the screen. Fake buttons are draggable, while actual download buttons are not.

The tricky part is how to install the downloaded free PowerPoint plugins and add-ins. The first step is finding the downloaded file and open it. Usually, you will see an installation dialog appear with instructions to follow until the end of the process.

Here are the free PowerPoint plugins and add-ins that you need to check out

After talking about the ‘how,’ let’s progress to the ‘what.’ Actually, there are many free PowerPoint plugins and add-ins that you can find on the internet or the market. However, not all of them are useful enough to be worth mentioning.

That’s why we selectively chose 8 of the most useful free PowerPoint plugins and add-ins to help you build professional (or professional-like) PowerPoint presentation slides.

Here are the free PowerPoint plugins and add-ins:

1. Power-User

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Putting Power-User in this list is a strong start because this is a well-known add-in for its excellence in helping designers create visually appealing PowerPoint presentation slides. It can automate formatting tasks, including adjusting the charts, colors, fonts, or alignment of the whole presentation.

It supports PowerPoint 2007 or higher version, and even though it provides a premium plan, the free basic options are already incredible. With the free version alone, you will gain access to templates, icons, diagrams, and maps to help you design your best PowerPoint presentation slides.

2. PowerPointLabs

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This add-in was created at the National University of Singapore, and this add-in is one of the best slide effects add-ins for PowerPoint. By installing this, the first thing you would notice is an additional ribbon in your PowerPoint.

Yeah, indeed, PowerPoint has provided its animation menu, but with the addition of PowerPoint Labs, you give the animations steroids. It gives you more control over the animations, the effects, and highlights so that you can use it to bring the spotlight to essential parts of your presentation.

3. Icons by Noun Project

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Talking about using Icons to boost up the edginess of your presentation, this is the add-in that you might want to get to know very well. Not only it has a massive database of icons, but it also allows you to give some tweaks to the icons.

The initial access to the 100 most frequently used icons in this add-in is free. However, if you want to dive into the database of over 1 million icons, you should contribute some dollars to it. Yes, the free version is good enough, but the paid version is 100 times better.

4. Mentimeter

Not all presentation is done face to face, and we all know about it very well. However, sometimes we need audience interaction and participation to make our presentation run well, like when we want to poll about something with the audience.

Mentimeter can provide you a media to do interaction with your audience even from miles away. This add-in will allow you to create an online poll, Q&A, or even a quiz with your audience in real-time. Not only that, this add-in can even add slides, gifs, or images to your current presentation.

5. Pro Word Cloud

This is a self-explanatory plugin, as what it does is creating word cloud images on your presentation slides. And what you need to do is just input the words that you want to place inside the cloud and let your audience’s subconscious minds get invaded with the keywords of your presentation.

Word cloud is underrated. This well-arranged cloud of words can contain a lot of information, but it is different from having a whole paragraph of terms being injected into your brain. People would accept its presence more than reading a section of meaningless words.

6. Pexels

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Are you often confused in creating a PowerPoint presentation design, because you find it hard to get a good image to put inside it? Maybe you need to install this add-in because it can provide many free creative commons stock photos.

One of the best features that this add-in has is the ability to search by color, which allows you to find a related image that fits your presentation theme and color palette.

7. Pixton Comic Characters

If you are a teacher and looking for media to engage with your students better, you might want to try Pixton Comic Characters. This free PowerPoint add-in consists of more than 40,000 illustrated characters with various expressions for your presentation.

Pixton Comic Characters add-in allows you to choose a character before selecting its outfit and poses so you can create a fluid storyline in your presentation. And to make it a more comic-like style, you can even add a speech bubble to them.

8. LiveWeb

Have you ever thought that PowerPoint limits your creativity and freedom in creating a good presentation because it cannot carry real-time information like we usually find on web pages? If so, then you might need to check this add-in out.

Not only viewing the websites in real-time, but you can also interact with them just like when you are using browsers. And that’s all for the free PowerPoint plugins and add-ins that can help you build a professional PowerPoint.

See also:

6 Graphic Design Tools Our Team Can’t Live Without

The Only Guide You Need to Download and Install Fonts for Professional PowerPoint

4 Tech Skills You Need to Increase Your Job Opportunities During Outbreaks

How to Access Hidden Slides Through Hyperlink (STEP by STEP)

And to make your life even easier…

Here we are, the kindest PowerPoint design agency you will ever find around. Downloading, installing, and using all of those plugins might give you mild headaches, especially when you are under the deadline.

That’s why, to bring you the most effortless ease in designing a PowerPoint presentation, just let us do the work for you. We have worked with all of those features above, and we can guarantee we would give you more than what was mentioned above in the final product.

Just contact us, tell us what you want in your presentation, and let us do the magic to create the best PowerPoint presentation you have ever had. Do not believe us? Just check our portfolio, and you can see whether our words are valid or not.

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