UpSlide Reviews

UpSlide meaningfully improves how we work in PowerPoint and Excel.

The Excel‑to‑PowerPoint linking is the biggest value add, it lets us update charts and tables instantly without reformatting, which saves real time on every deck. The built‑in formatting and branded templates also ensure consistency across teams with minimal effort. An unexpected benefit has been how much it’s reduced last‑minute presentation clean‑ups before client meetings.

Some Excel formatting actions applied via UpSlide can’t be undone using Excel’s native Undo function, which can interrupt workflow if changes need to be reversed. Improved Undo support or a preview step would significantly enhance usability.

UpSlide solves the inefficiency and risk that come with heavy PowerPoint and Excel usage in a fast‑paced environment.

I like the poweropint shortcuts the best, especially the ability to copy width and height with two simple shortcuts and the ability to swap shapes really easily

I don't use the excel functionality as much and i have had issues with excel outputting in the past (i.e., it doesn't output correctly or when i hit refresh outputs it will crash my excel)

It's allowing me to work more quickly in powerpoint especially with effective shortcuts and allowing me to format slides quickly and efficiently. It saves me a lot of time when I use it and allows me to create better presentation materials. I don't use it in excel as much, but some of the auto formatting functionality can be pretty good too.

The linked slides feature which allows multiple decks to update from a single slide is excellent. This feature along would save hours each week.

It has been easy to implement and integrate with plenty of support from the Upslide team.

We are yet to come across any major issues, so far we have liked what we have seen.

I really appreciate UpSlide because it allows me to use the linked slides feature, which isn't available in PowerPoint otherwise. This feature is particularly valuable as it reduces the risk of errors because I only need to edit the slide once, not across all my decks. I also found the UpSlide team to be very responsive and helpful during the setup process, even though it involved a lot of back and forth.

All PowerPoints using the linked slides feature must live in the UpSlide library. The initial setup was difficult with a lot of back and forth, but the UpSlide team was very responsive and helpful throughout the process.

UpSlide reduces the risk of error by allowing me to edit a slide once without updating multiple decks.

Consistent branding, with less time spent on formatting. Also, the project team were fantastic with getting us setup!

Not much! It does limit some flexibility, but that is the purpose of enhancing consistency.

Time spent on pitch books and inconsistency in use of company branding.

1. The Office layout solutions. UpSlide makes it extremely easy to convert tables and charts into full corporate design with a single click, automatically applying the correct colours, fonts, and styles. This saves so much time when creating client or management presentations.

2. The linking solutions. This includes text links, which allow PowerPoint and Word documents to update automatically from an Excel source. In addition, our department updates thousands of league tables in PowerPoint every month. These are connected to the league-table Excel file in a very smart way, because UpSlide’s linking remains intact regardless of the file name or the file location. This makes sharing files seamless and ensures all links stay functional.

Product is very easy to use and is explained very well by the customer service team. I appreciate that the team is always there to help with any questions / bring up new features.

The least helpful features of Upslide based on feedback from our team would be the formatting features, mainly due to a lack of using it. I think this is something we could use a refresh / update as we work to use more tools in Upslide.

UpSlide is helping us solve tombstone creation, which has been very manual in the past. It is benefitting us tremendously by housing all tombstones in a central location and helps us improve our process on gathering details needed to create tombstones.

I like that it helps maintain consistency throughout our report. When any cell values change in Excel, it is very easy to re-UpSlide all of the amended values throughout the report. This ensures consistency and saves us time.

I wish changes from Excel to Word would UpSlide faster.

-Data consistency

-Saves time

We currently use UpSlide extensively to upload graphs from Excel to PowerPoint. Our entire market pitch is built with UpSlide‑linked graphs, which makes updating extremely easy and saves us a significant amount of time.

In addition, I also used UpSlide at my former employer (a large German bank) to create Tombstones and to connect Excel graphs. For these use cases, it is one of the best tools I have worked with so far.

I’m not a big fan of the fact that the graphs are uploaded in image format, as it makes it difficult to resize them properly afterward. We often change the slide layout and need the graph to be larger or smaller, so having to reupload it every time is not very convenient. Other than that, I have no negative comments about the tool.

UpSlide generates precise Tombstones for our bank, which makes our daily work much easier and more convenient. We use these Tombstones to showcase our achievements, but until now the process required copying, pasting, and manually resizing them from a PPT presentation. With the new Tombstone library, we can insert the Tombstones directly into any pitch in the exact size and format we need. This not only saves time but also ensures that everyone uses a consistent layout.

1. The library functionality saves us a lot of time in accessing latest slides, as well as eradicating the version control issues we were previously struggling with.

2.Slide checker tool is excellent to catch formatting inconsistencies, and the UpSlide formatting tools (alignment, swap shapes, format painter etc) make slide creation much quicker.

3. The links to excel/word have made our reporting production far more efficient (and accurate).

4. Training and general Q&A/support has been excellent from day one.