General Settings

In the section General, you will find settings for empower^® Component for PowerPoint regarding the usage of templates, header and footer behavior as well as update notification and behavior.

In addition, you can define default settings for the slide conversion in empower^®.

To force a master selection from the empower^® Library, switch the toggle button for Force master selection on startup to On (Figure 31, “Toggle Button for Master Selection”). At every PowerPoint startup, a library window opens and the user is directly navigated to the section Corporate Design Templates – Master Templates. Only once a master template from the library is selected, a new presentation can be created.

Switch the toggle button to Off to allow PowerPoint to open with a blank .pot template at startup.

Alternatively, to avoid a forced master selection but ensure all users work with a master template that complies with your corporate design, you can set a master template as a default template that automatically opens up at PowerPoint startup. This setting has to be configured via the user interface.

To enable the use of header and footer fields via the button Presentation Settings in the empower^® Ribbon, switch the toggle button Show Header/Footer Settings in Master Settings to On (Figure 32, “Toggle Button for Header/Footer Settings”).

If you force the master selection on startup, the new PowerPoint presentation that opens up before empower^® is fully loaded and the master selection opens is closed automatically.

If users already type in content into this presentation while empower^® is still loading in the background, all unsaved changes are lost when the presentation is closed.

To avoid this behavior and keep this presentation and its content, switch the toggle button for Keep Changed Presentation on Startup to On (Figure 33, “Toggle Button for Changed Presentation”).

Users can then decide if they want to keep or copy the content from the first opened presentation or close the presentation manually.

Define and preset how users will be notified about new content updates. The following four update notification modes are available (Figure 34, “Options for Default Update Notification Mode”):

Define and preset how updates are distributed. The following three update modes are available (Figure 35, “Options Default Update Mode”):

Your selected update settings are reflected in the user interface.

The setting that you have selected in the empower^® Admin Center is also enabled when a user tries to overwrite a root element of an update group.

If the user has the required permissions to overwrite a root element, they can always choose another option if required.

Under Convert Slides, you can define the default behavior for the conversion feature in the empower^® Component for PowerPoint (Figure 36, “Convert Slides Settings”). This behavior is then used for all users if they do not set their own preferences in the user interface.

To enable one of the settings, switch the respective toggle button to On.

To disable one of the settings, switch the respective toggle button to Off.

Your selected conversion settings are reflected in the user interface.

All settings that you have enabled in the empower^® Admin Center are also enabled in the user interface for users. If you have enabled multiple settings which correspond to one of the conversion presets, the set is also selected in the user interface.