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  • Likelihood to recommend9.16/10

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My content quality speaks for itself and it’s rewarding to see my audience react affirmatively to both the quality of content and its design and cleanliness.
Extremely user friendly, efficient and improves the quality of our presentation.
In particular, when working on PowerPoint, it is useful to resize and reposition pictures and graphs. In matters of minutes, it is possible to render and prepare an appealing presentation.
So far I have not come across a single function that I dislike about this software.
My firm's MS ppt has one feature where you can select a few slides and email out only those slides. That's really the only functionality I think PowerUser is missing in my eyes.
Power-user has more likable feature other than dislikes.
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Shivam J.

Wine and Spirits, 501-1,000 employees

Used weekly for 1-2 years

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Presentations done right with Power User

Reviewed a year ago

Great

Pros

Content Library and Alignment are the most used

Cons

Excel functions are not very useful for everyday use

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Thanks for your review!

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Yugal K.

Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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Excellent tool for impressive presentation and business documentation

Reviewed a year ago

so far excellent tools and like real buddy for my presentation.

Pros

1) Conslidation of all frequenly required feature are at same place.2) Library provides ever evolving templates, Icons etc.3) I am able to customize the library content in the customer specific themes.

Cons

1) search feature - It is bit hard to find the exact serach you are looking for. So you need to browse through all over the contents, which is time consuming.

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Thanks for your review, appreciate the great feedback!

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Alankrita S.

Education Management, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Power-user is a Life saver,

Reviewed a year ago

Extremely Extremely positive. I will highly recommend this to anyone out there who wants to make great PPTs.

Pros

Saves TimeExtremely Professional Looking PresentationsImage LibraryEven templates can be tweeked as per personal bneeds

Cons

The only feature missing may be designing options like Canva but then, that's asking too must from a Plugin of Office Powerpoint

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Thanks for your review, very glad to hear that you seem to love it!

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Tracy F.

Pharmaceuticals, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Takes presentations and editing to the next level

Reviewed a year ago
Pros

Features really consider user needs. The ability to send a single slide or select slides without having to save a new document is key. The power-user menu is great and intuitive -- it saves a lot of navigation time.

Cons

The updates are a little too frequent/disruptive.

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Hi Tracy, thanks for your review and feedback. FYI, since a few months already, updates are installed silently so this shouldn't bother you anymore

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sandra s.

Education Management, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for 2+ years

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Powe-user review

Reviewed 2 years ago
Pros

Integration with the MS PowerPoint and excel is the best. As an Assistant Professor, I always use the Power-user Chart and Shape tools for creating a insightful presentations. Students and staffs understand the charts and shapes very clearly.

Cons

Power-user doesn't have MacOS support. It's UI Needs improvement

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Shailendra S.

Research, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Amazing add-in software that saves lot of time

Reviewed 2 years ago
Pros

I like the image gallery, but also various slide design that I can use to quickly express my ideas. It has saved me time and added to my productivity

Cons

Happy with the software and happy that it is available to me.

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Hi Shailendra, thanks for your review!

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Lukasz G.

Education Management, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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Luka's Review

Reviewed 2 years ago

The best ppt add in

Pros

Ppt shortcuts, which are very helpful in daily work

Cons

Everything is fine, so i do not have any objections

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Thanks Lukasz

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Paige H.

Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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Great Production for Deck Creation!

Reviewed 2 years ago

Great!

Pros

I love the new and fresh slide templates that are easily customizable.

Cons

I have yet to adventure into the other features offered by Power-User.

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Thanks Paige

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Aditya D.

Automotive, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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A helping hand in presentations

Reviewed 2 years ago

The overall experience has been great, I have asked all of my team members to start using this as it has significantly helped me in preparing better presentations

Pros

The integrated console that provides all the important tools required at one place really helps in saving a lot of time and eases out the process of making presentations. Additionally, the various content libraries provided helps in quick usage of graphic to make the presentation more engageing

Cons

File sharing option is only through outlook, while I am using google suite, I have to follow the old-school process to share files

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Hi Aditya, thank you for your review!

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Alessandro C.

Financial Services, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for 2+ years

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A usefull software enhancing everyday productivity

Reviewed 2 years ago
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Power-user is an usefull add-on for Excel and Powerpoint, allowing to access extra formatting features, graphs, and advanced features.

Cons

The software may occasionally be a little buggy, even if it is well supported.

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Thanks Alessandro for this review! Glad that you like it!

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Brandon A.

Civil Engineering, self-employed

Used daily for 1-2 years

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An excellent, light add-on with heavy hitting potential

Reviewed 2 years ago
Pros

Data analysis, additional formula references in excel, and data visualization

Cons

I have not found an easy use of spacetime diagrams for multiple data sets.

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Thanks Brandon for your review!

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Elon E.

Financial Services, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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A must have

Reviewed 2 years ago
Pros

Increase productivity by a lot. Help to create clear and impactful presentations.

Cons

Few to improve. It is already very useful and efficient.

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Thanks for your feedback Elon. Very happy to see you are enjoying Power-user!

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Mirza H.

Education Management, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Best addon for academic use

Reviewed 2 years ago
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Easy to use and there are diverse options.

Cons

The image and template collection are not sufficient

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Thank you for your review Mirza!

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Ezra O.

Research, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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Poweruser gives you power!

Reviewed 2 years ago
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Poweruser provides helpful and accessible tools without changing the tabs in the office apps. It can also save you time in making quality output by providing templates which are user-friendly.

Cons

None. Loved the experience using the tool for two years

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Thanks Ezra for sharing this review. Glad that you enjoy it!

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Aaron T.

Hospital & Health Care, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used weekly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Streamline academic presentations

Reviewed 2 years ago
Pros

After an initial learning curve, this application streamlines the process of creating presentations in powerpoint and making them "tidy". It's easy to arrange content on slides and keep things organized. I do not use the templates very much, but in certain use cases, they facilitate generating an overall schematic for presenting info on a slide.

Cons

It is fairly easy to install. For academic use, cost is minimal for full features, but I am not sure the features would justify the cost for some that do not create PPT presentations often.

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Thanks Aaron for your review

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Nancy B.

Nonprofit Organization Management, self-employed

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Amazing graphics with the click of a button

Reviewed 2 years ago

I love Power-user and recommend it all of the time.

Pros

The library of graphics is amazing. I teach nonprofit people how to teach, and I implore them not to use (or overuse) bullet points. Power-user's library of graphics allows for easy display of information without boring bullet points.

Cons

It is expensive for small nonprofits or independent consultants working in the public sector. There is a public school discount, which is great.

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THanks Nancy for your review. Very happy to hear you seem to like Power-user a lot!

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Girma B.

Education Management, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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My Thought on Power User

Reviewed 2 years ago

I always enjoy using Power-user. I hope your products will grow more and integrate software other than word processing and PPT.

Pros

The templates are attractive, especially those in PPT.

Cons

I am impressed to use the PPT. It gives templates that make the presentation more attractive. But the template's words are limited. In addition, it will be better to allow users to expand additional features on the existing templates.

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Thanks Girma for your review

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Roman V.

Military, 10,001+ employees

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it makes my life easier

Reviewed 2 years ago

very good

Pros

There are some options that gives more juicy to ppt files! I like the slides templates and pieces of advice how to improve its visibility and transparency I use also the geo maps

Cons

Some functionality doesn't work sometimes at free trial - agenda doesn't work properly as example

Vendor response

Hi Roman, thanks for the review and the overall perfect grade. Just curious why you put just 1 star for "Ease of use" and "Customer support" (which we are actually very proud of).

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Dave C.

Computer & Network Security, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Global Sales L&D Workplace Products Program Manager

Reviewed 2 years ago

In today's pandemic/more virtual world, Power-user is helping me train, educate, demo and communicate much more effective virtually.

Pros

What I really like about the software are the templates and design suggestions. I do a lot of presentations and often am looking for more creative ways to make my presentations stand out and be more effective. The templates and design suggestions accomplish that and more. I also like the occasion tips that help me improve my skills.

Cons

I can't really think of any cons except I would have like a little more instructions as a new user.

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Thanks Dave for your review! Appreciate the great feedback!

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Haroon R.

Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees

Used weekly for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend6/10

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Good Software

Reviewed 2 years ago
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Ease of use software and integration with other apps.

Cons

Loading time in loading icons and other templates

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Thanks for the review Haroon

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Gideon M.

Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 1-10 employees

Used weekly for 6-12 months

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Power-user

Reviewed 2 years ago

Overall, I’m happy to have the Power User. It’s nice to have such an add-in that is integrated and is part of the office software and enables fast browsing and implementation of objects that give my documents and presentations a more professional and compelling look.

Pros

Four things I like most in Power User are: 1. The generous trying period. 2. The tool is fast evolving and receives both interface and features updates at least on a monthly basis. 3. The overall continually growing quantity and quality of the objects you can select and add to your office documents. 4. The fact that some of the selectable objects to add to a document or presentation are live objects and can be tuned to present exactly what I want them to look like and show.

Cons

What I don’t like is that I need to set Malwarebytes off when installing the Power User update, because Malwarebytes sees these updates as a threat and prevent their installation.

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Thanks for your review Gideon!

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Steve B.

Higher Education, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Go To PowerPoint Add In

Reviewed 2 years ago

Makes life easy for Power Point

Pros

Power-User has made the process of building slide decks much smoother. Power-User is one-stop shop for most frequent PP commands, has clean simple layout, and is easy to use. I’ve used this for PP for years, and can’t build slides without it.

Cons

Excel / Word plug in not very useful. **need the PP functionality for Mac** I have both Mac and PC, and would really appreciate using Power User on both.

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Thanks Steve, we appreciate the feedback! We have plans for Excel, Word and Mac of course, you just have to be patient :)

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Raymond Z.

Design, self-employed

Used daily for 2+ years

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Helps me in my job daily and has become a critical part of my workflow

Reviewed 2 years ago
Pros

I like the quick access to all the various tools - it really helps me become more efficient when doing my work especially when it comes to PowerPoint presentations. The icon and map libraries are also absolutely fantastic.

Cons

The only small issue I’d say is in the “line” icons in the icon library, many of the lines aren’t considered outlines in PowerPoint so I can’t adjust the width, but that’s very minor.

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Hi Raymond, thanks for your review! Glad that the tool is really helpful for you. Regarding the Line icons, indeed they are "Line" in terms of visual appearance, but technically speaking, some have just an outline but some use a fill color.

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Fabrizio C.

Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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Best Excel plug in

Reviewed 4 years ago
Pros

This software easily setup in excel and offer many tools like icons, maps, graphs and a big template collection. Power user developer release update and many other object and functionality. I use it in Excel, PowerPoint and Word, the biggest tool for me.

Cons

Nothing, it's very useful and complete tool.

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Juan M.

Education Management, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Excelente add-on to Powerpoint

Reviewed 4 years ago

Power-user has become an essential tool for my everyday work, it is very useful and I couldn't get used to not having it .

Pros

It has almost every Powerpoint tool available and adds many other ones: templates, icons, pictures, etc. in one only menu bar. Very easy to use.

Cons

No much to complain to tell the truth. Maybe including other languages besides English would make it even better.