New Features

7.9.0801

Agenda

• It is now possible to configure an agenda to hide agenda slides if no content slides are between the previous agenda slide and the next highlight slide.
• It is now possible to show only one highlight decoration at a time.

Miscellaneous

• Videos were removed from the setup and can be installed seperately.
• .Net Framework was removed from the setup an replaced with the web installer.
• We removed some code which could possible affect the startup performance.

Bugs & Improvements

7.9.1005

• Reworked master fields. Saved state is only used for new presentations. Other presentations will try to read the information from the presentation.
• If additional updates were found after a presentation update it could happen that a window was hidden by a PowerPoint window and no further input was allowed.

7.9.1003

• In some cases the update window is positioned behind the empower splash screen
• Added exception to the layout protection for:
  • text range sticks out of right side and wrap in shape and do not autofit activated
  • text range sticks out over bottom side and last line by no more than 50%
• linked shapes no longer worked after a master was applied

7.9.1002

• empower was unable to play mp4 videos which were uploaded to the library

7.9.1001

• Unable to change language in professional
• Unable to save slide sets

7.9.1000

• Names of shapes are now used for name suggestion
• Tags of presentations are now imported into empower
• Presentations could not be imported if the sum of characters of the resulting tags would be more than 1024.
• In some cases every mouse click activated the empower ribbon
• Using multiple clicks in size operations did not work if a reference shape was defined
• In some cases every apply master of the same master added a new master into the presentation
• Added logic to check slide uploads before saving them in the library

7.0.0903

• In some cases the update center could not be opened
• In some cases the update functionality in the context menu could not be performed
• In some cases apply updates after saving an object did not work
• First sync package location can now be defined using placeholder, i.e. %localappdata%
• Fixed the issue that the quick acess pane was no longer available after Office added the "Optimize for best appearance" option which was activated by default.

7.9.0901

• Design Check did not find violations in table cells.
• In specific Office versions Excel crashed if data was displayed for charts.

7.9.0900

• After an Office 2016 update PowerPoint crashed if specific properties of charts shapes were programmatically accessed and then the user wanted to edit the data.
• If the transparency had a negative value, the corporate design check did not find violations in charts
• Spelling error in German Design Check corrected.
• Improvements to the presentation importer to prevent the Garbage Collector to collect presentations before the are completely saved.
• Intelligent slide size switch somes did not perform as expected.
• Master could not be saved if some shapes were unable to be accessed. This could happen when the noSelect option is set using OpenXML. empower now notifies the user with a message box.

7.9.0802

• Spell checking language can now also be changed for shapes with multiple langugages.
• Sometimes presentations could not be opened.
• Apply Format did not insert text elements if more thant 5 bullet levels were defined.

7.9.0801

• PowerPont did not react after swapping grouped shapes.
• If a default theme was present, the default empower master did not work.