Stay inside the deck
The gallery inserts a chosen block into the open presentation.
Consultants can reuse branded content in their existing workflow.
Small side project · PowerPoint · AI
Smart Blocks
A small tool for the work between the slides.
Consultants needed to assemble branded decks and keep them consistent as content changed. I put reusable blocks and presentation helpers inside PowerPoint.
- Contribution
- Add-in development
- Period
- April–June 2026
- Status
- Small side project · In use
- 23
- branded slide blocks
- 4
- content categories
- In use
- by Meonzi consultants
Smart BlocksPowerPoint add-in
23branded slide blocks
01Choose a block
02Insert into deck
03Update presentation
The challenge
Building a deck also means maintaining agendas, page numbers and progress bars. Those repeated tasks were the focus of this small productivity side project.
The tool needed to fit the presentation workflow consultants already used, including the revisions after the first draft.
My role
I built and delivered an Office.js add-in with 23 branded blocks, agenda tools, numbering helpers and optional AI hero images. I also wrote installation guidance for Mac and Windows.
The decisions
Support the next revision
Agenda, numbering and progress-bar tools sit alongside the block gallery.
The add-in supports deck maintenance as well as content creation.
The result
The add-in is in use by consultants. The 23-block library describes delivered scope; adoption volume and time saved have not been measured here.
What I’d measure next
- Measure
- Time to build and revise a branded deck, plus formatting corrections.
- How
- Ask consultants to complete matched deck tasks with and without the add-in. Include a late slide-order change. Record median task time, corrections and repeat use over a defined period.
- Check alongside it
- Include installation and learning time when assessing the benefit.