Upload straight from PowerPoint

Send the deck you have open in PowerPoint straight to FeatPaper. Install the add-in once, and you can turn the current presentation into a FeatPaper document without saving a file and uploading it again on the web. You get a share link you can send, and you see who opened it and how far they read.

What you can do here

• Track opens in the same step — send a proposal or deck as a link and see whether it opened and how each page landed.
• Skip the save-and-reupload loop — send the deck from PowerPoint every time you tweak a slide.
• Go from slides to a web link as-is — share the deck as a web viewer with no manual file conversion.
• Keep one link on the newest version — Update a document from the panel and the share link stays exactly the same.

What is the PowerPoint plugin?

The PowerPoint plugin (add-in) uploads a presentation to FeatPaper from inside PowerPoint. There is no separate save-and-upload step, so you can send whatever you are working on in one move.

The plugin works on every plan, including the free Starter plan. All you need is edit access to the target folder in your space.

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Reach it right from My Documents

Open a folder in My Documents that has no documents yet. Figma, Adobe Express, and PowerPoint icons appear below the upload area in the center. Click the PowerPoint icon to jump to the marketplace install page below.

These icons show up only when the folder is empty. In a folder that already holds documents, use the install link below instead.

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Install it

Open Microsoft AppSource

The link below takes you to the FeatPaper plugin page.

FeatPaper PowerPoint plugin install page

Click Get it now

On the FeatPaper plugin page, click Get it now to install the add-in.

Confirm it in PowerPoint

Open PowerPoint and check that FeatPaper appears under Insert > Add-ins.

Use the desktop PowerPoint app — Windows or Mac. The add-in installs and shows up in PowerPoint on the web, but nothing opens there. You get one notice: “This add-in isn’t supported in PowerPoint for the web.” What the web panel does give you is a list of your documents: pick one and click Open selected document in desktop PowerPoint to carry on in the desktop app. With nothing in the folder yet, the button reads Open desktop PowerPoint instead.

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How to use it

Open the panel

Click Feat Paper on the Home tab of the ribbon. Reopen a file you built with the plugin and the panel opens on its own.

Sign in

Sign in with your FeatPaper account. Skip this step if you are already signed in.

Pick a folder

The Home tab lists your FeatPaper folders. Open the one that will hold the document.

Create the document

Click Create at the bottom. A dialog asks for the file name, prefilled with the current file name. Confirm it and the conversion starts. When it finishes you get a thumbnail, the share link with a copy button, and View details.

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What it supports

Feature	What it does
Direct upload	Sends the open presentation to FeatPaper in one step.
Folder selection	Picks the destination folder inside the plugin panel.
Document search	Finds any folder or document across the whole space.

After the upload, create share links and set viewing controls from the document screen in FeatPaper. The plugin sends two files: the converted PDF that becomes the web-viewable document, and the original PPTX alongside it. Import pulls that PPTX back into PowerPoint.

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Plans and permissions

The plugin itself is open on every plan. The real limits are the monthly upload count and the PDF size cap.

Item	Starter	Pro	Business	Enterprise
Plugin access	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Monthly uploads (new documents + versions)	10	30	From 90 (30 per seat)	Custom
PDF file size	30MB	100MB	300MB	Custom
Videos + GIFs per document	3	5	Unlimited	Unlimited

• The size cap is measured against the PDF the plugin converts and sends, not the original PPTX.
• A single video or GIF you insert can be 100MB on any plan — that ceiling does not move with the plan. The Insert tab section below covers both media limits.
• Shared folders you have no edit access to still show in the list, greyed out. Click one and you get “You do not have edit permission for this folder.”
• A document you send into someone else’s folder counts against the plan of the space that folder belongs to.

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Ways to use this

The plugin’s value doesn’t stop at removing the save-and-reupload loop — it shows up in what happens after: sharing, tracking, and swapping in new versions.

Send the deck you just finished straight to a link before the meeting

• Situation — you edited the deck 30 minutes before the meeting and still have to get it to the attendees.
• Setup — open the Feat Paper panel from the PowerPoint ribbon, pick a folder, and click Create. Open that document’s Share tab in the dashboard, turn on View notification for the link, and copy the link to send.
• What you get — no saving the file and reuploading it on the web, and before the meeting you can see whether attendees opened it and which slide held them, in document analytics.

Keep a weekly deck on one link

• Situation — a weekly report goes out every Monday, and a fresh link each week leaves the recipient unsure which one is current.
• Setup — click Create for the first week only. Every week after that, click the same document on the Home tab and hit Update on the row that opens.
• What you get — the link you already sent keeps working, so there is nothing to re-announce, and the reading data collected so far continues on one document. Click Create again instead and you get a second, unrelated document with its own link.

Attach a PPTX and you never learn whether it was opened, and the file itself gets forwarded on. Send a link and you get the open and the per-slide dwell time, and if something goes wrong you deactivate that one link to cut off access.

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The Home and Insert tabs

The panel splits in two.

• Home — your FeatPaper folders and documents. Click a document and Update, Import, and Share appear on its row. Click it again to close the row. Hovering only highlights it.
• Insert — where you drop a video or an outside embed into the deck first, before you send it.

To build a new document, open the folder you want and click Create at the bottom. That button does one thing — there is no mode switch beside it. Update and Import are per-document actions: click the document you want on the Home tab and they appear on its row.

You cannot switch spaces from the panel. It uses whichever space you last opened in the dashboard. To upload somewhere else, switch spaces in the dashboard first, then reopen the panel.

Document search at the top finds folders and documents anywhere in that space.

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Revising a deck without changing the link

To keep one link pointing at the current deck, use Update.

Find the document on the Home tab

Locate the document you sent earlier and click it to open its row.

Click Update

Click Update, confirm the file name, and the same conversion screen runs.

Done

The share link and every view recorded so far carry over untouched. You never leave PowerPoint, and you can still roll back to an earlier version from the dashboard later.

Your monthly upload count covers new documents and version updates together.

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The Insert tab — video and outside content

Paste a link or pick an MP4 or GIF file on the Insert tab and one new slide joins the deck.

Supported sources are YouTube, Vimeo, Loom, Calendly, Canva, Figma, Arcade, Tally, Typeform, Lottie, and Google Maps, Sheets, and Forms. Paste a link and click Preview, then Insert; for a file on your machine, use Choose MP4 or GIF.

The Video Settings tab carries Auto Play, Loop, Muted, and Hide Control. Those four ride along with video only. A GIF is written to the slide without them — it plays as a GIF, and toggling the switches before you insert one changes nothing. Select the video or GIF shape on a slide afterwards and the Motion panel opens on it.

Once the deck is uploaded, all of it plays in the viewer.

Two separate limits apply to what you insert, and they behave differently.

Size — 100MB per file, on every plan. The plugin uses the same 100MB ceiling for Starter, Pro, Business, and Enterprise alike. (The per-plan 30/50/100MB tiers you may have read about apply to the web motion editor, not to what you insert here.)

There are two places this bites. On insert, picking a file over 100MB on the Insert tab is refused on the spot — it never reaches the slide, and “This file is larger than 100 MB. Choose a file up to 100 MB.” appears as both a toast and an error under the field.

On export, anything oversized still in the deck does not stop the run — that one item is skipped and the rest goes through. You get a “Some media won’t be included in this document” notice, listing the slide and the file size: “These local GIF or MP4 files are over your current plan limit, so they were skipped during Motion export.” The only other reason an item lands on that list is a local file the plugin could not read at export time.

Count — how many videos and GIFs one document may hold, by plan: 3 on Starter, 5 on Pro, unlimited on Business and Enterprise. This one is enforced by the server, and it fails very differently from the size cap above — quietly, and much more broadly.

The export still succeeds. The deck uploads and the document opens. What the server refuses is the motion data, and it refuses the whole batch rather than trimming the items over the cap — so the document opens with no motion whatsoever. Not just the surplus videos and GIFs: the embeds, click links, and page jumps ride in the same payload and go with them. The add-in never checks the server’s reply, so no notice appears in the panel — the first sign is the document itself.

What counts: uploaded video files and GIFs, added up across the whole deck, not per slide. What doesn’t: YouTube and Vimeo links, embeds, click links, and page jumps — those are unlimited, because the media is hosted elsewhere.

If a document turns up with its motion missing, bring the count to the limit or under and export again — or trade some uploaded videos for YouTube or Vimeo links, which don’t count toward the cap.

The check only fires when the number goes up. A document that is already over the cap — after a downgrade, say — keeps its motion as long as you are not adding another video or GIF.

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What counts as motion, and where you can change it

PowerPoint picks up both routes. Anything you added on the Insert tab counts, and so does video or a GIF you dropped in with PowerPoint’s own tools — on export the plugin opens the slide up and finds the media embedded inside it. Only the Insert tab route, though, lets you set playback options (autoplay, loop, mute, hidden controls).

Hyperlinks already in the deck need no setup. They come across as clickable regions in the viewer.

Motion that arrived through the plugin cannot be edited on the web. The original is deliberately left intact, so the dashboard’s motion editor will not let you drag or resize those items.

You can still add new motion on the web. To change something the plugin put there, edit it in PowerPoint and run Update from the plugin.

An update treats the two differently — motion the plugin created is replaced by whatever this export produces, while motion you added on the web stays.

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Import — pull a FeatPaper document back into PowerPoint

Click a document on the Home tab, then Import on the row, and its pages land in the presentation you have open, as slides.

Font embedding is best effort, not a guarantee. On the way out, the plugin looks up every typeface in the deck against FeatPaper’s font service and embeds the ones it finds. A font that isn’t in the service, or whose file won’t download, is skipped without a warning — so an imported deck can still fall back to whatever is installed on the machine that opens it.

A document sent before Import shipped cannot be pulled back. Those rows show the button greyed out: “This document can’t be imported. It was exported before Import was available.”

Documents exported from a different plugin come back the same way — a deck built in Figma can be opened and carried on in PowerPoint. The catch is on the sending side: Export as a document shareable with other plugins has to have been on. Turn it off and the export stores nothing to pull back, so the button stays greyed out.

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What carries over and what doesn’t

Item	In the viewer
Fonts, layout, charts, tables, SmartArt	Look exactly as they do in PowerPoint
Hyperlinks	Clickable — both outside addresses and jumps to another slide
Video, GIF, embeds	They play
Slide animations and transitions	Dropped

When the story needs motion, reach for a video or embed on the Insert tab rather than a slide animation.

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While the conversion runs

• You can cancel at the very start only. Once the first page is processed, there is no cancel.
• Don’t close PowerPoint mid-conversion. The add-in has nothing watching for it — no close or unload handler — so the run simply stops with no error raised and nothing marked failed. The document is left stuck in a converting state and there is no recovery step; start over.
• If something goes wrong during conversion or upload, the panel can stay on the progress screen with no message explaining why. If nothing changes after a while, close the panel and reopen it — and check Settings > Usage in the dashboard to see whether this cycle’s uploads have hit your limit.

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Good to know

• To keep the link, use Update in the panel. Click the document on the Home tab and hit Update — it lands as a new version of the same document and the share link never changes. Clicking Create again builds a separate document instead.
• There is no auto-sync. After you edit a slide, run Update or Create again.
• The plugin sends the one presentation you currently have open.
• A My Documents screen you already had open may not list the new document right away. Refresh the list.
• The original PPTX is stored too, next to the converted PDF. Import brings that PPTX back into PowerPoint, with whatever fonts the plugin managed to embed on the way out.

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Troubleshooting

The plugin doesn't show up

• Quit and restart PowerPoint.
• Check that FeatPaper is enabled under Insert > Add-ins > My Add-ins.
• Contact your IT admin if your organization restricts add-in installs.

Nothing opens in the panel

• You are most likely in PowerPoint on the web, where the add-in shows a notice instead. Open the file in the desktop app.
• Sign out of the plugin and sign back in.

The upload fails

• Check your internet connection.
• Make sure the file stays inside your plan’s upload limit. That limit reads the converted PDF the plugin uploads, not the original PPTX.
• Check this cycle’s upload count under Settings > Usage.

A folder won't let you pick it

• Shared folders you cannot edit still appear, greyed out. Click one and you get “You do not have edit permission for this folder.” Ask for access or pick another folder.
• The space comes from the dashboard. Switch spaces there and reopen the panel.

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Button and shortcut reference

The buttons people look for most on this screen.

Button / element	Where	What it does
PowerPoint icon	Below the upload area of an empty folder in My Documents	Opens the FeatPaper install page on Microsoft AppSource in a new tab.
Get it now	FeatPaper plugin page on Microsoft AppSource	Installs the FeatPaper add-in into PowerPoint.
Feat Paper (ribbon button)	Home tab of the PowerPoint ribbon	Opens the FeatPaper panel.
Create	Bottom of the FeatPaper panel	Asks for a file name, then uploads the open presentation to the folder you picked as a new document.
Update	Row that opens when you click a document on the Home tab	Uploads the open presentation as a new version of that document. The share link stays the same.
Import	Row that opens when you click a document on the Home tab	Inserts that document’s pages into the presentation you have open.
Share	Row that opens when you click a document on the Home tab	Brings up that document’s share link.
Open selected document in desktop PowerPoint	Bottom of the panel in PowerPoint on the web	Hands the document you picked to the desktop app. Reads Open desktop PowerPoint when the folder is empty.

Shortcut: Open My Documents

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Frequently asked questions

Can I upload straight from PowerPoint?

Yes. Install the FeatPaper add-in from Microsoft AppSource, click Feat Paper on the Home tab of the ribbon, pick a folder, then click Create. You never save the file and upload it again on the web.

Is the PowerPoint plugin free to use?

Yes. It works on every plan, including the free Starter plan. All you need is edit access to the folder you upload to.

Where do I install the PowerPoint plugin?

From the FeatPaper plugin page on Microsoft AppSource. Opening an empty folder in My Documents also shows a PowerPoint icon that leads to the same page.

Can I get the original PPTX back later?

Yes. The plugin uploads the source PPTX alongside the converted PDF. Click that document on the Home tab and hit Import, and its slides drop into the presentation you have open. Fonts are re-embedded where the plugin could resolve them against FeatPaper’s font service on the way out — anything it couldn’t find was skipped, so treat font fidelity as likely rather than certain. Only documents sent before Import shipped are excluded, and those rows say so: “This document can’t be imported. It was exported before Import was available.”

If I edit the deck in PowerPoint, does the FeatPaper document update automatically?

No. Send it again for the new content to land. There is no auto-sync.

If I send the same file again, does it update the existing document or create a new one?

That is your call, and the panel has a button for each. Click the document on the Home tab and Update replaces its content — the plugin posts a new version against the existing link, so the share link and the reading history are kept and you never touch the dashboard. Create builds a separate document with its own link. Both count as one upload against your monthly limit. A My Documents screen you already had open may not show the change, so refresh the list.

Can I choose which space the document lands in?

Not from the panel. It always uses the space you last opened in the dashboard, and you only pick the folder. Switch spaces in the dashboard first, then reopen the panel.

If I send a deck into a folder someone invited me to, whose document is it?

A folder you joined with edit access appears in the panel, and a document you send there registers to the space that folder belongs to. The per-recipient link cap and the viewing analytics follow that space’s plan, not your personal plan.

Can I use it in PowerPoint for Mac?

Yes — the desktop app on Windows and Mac is the one to use. In PowerPoint on the web the add-in loads but the export never opens, and you get a notice telling you to use the desktop app. From the web you can pick an existing document and click Open selected document in desktop PowerPoint to pick up where you left off; in an empty folder that button reads Open desktop PowerPoint. Contact your IT admin if your organization restricts add-in installs.

Do slide animations and transitions survive?

No. Animations and slide transitions are dropped. Everything else holds: fonts, layout, charts, tables, and SmartArt look the same, hyperlinks stay clickable, and videos, GIFs, and embeds play in the viewer. Add motion from the Insert tab instead of animating the slide — bearing in mind that Auto Play, Loop, Muted, and Hide Control take effect for video and not for GIFs.

Can I export several presentations at once?

No. The plugin sends the one presentation you have open. Open another file and run it again.

Is there an upload size limit? Does it read the original PPTX or the converted PDF?

Two different limits, so it’s worth separating them. The document is measured against the same per-plan upload limit as a direct web upload, and it reads the converted PDF rather than the original PPTX. A video or GIF you insert is capped at 100MB on every plan — that one doesn’t move with your plan at all. There’s also a per-plan cap on how many videos and GIFs a document may hold (3 on Starter, 5 on Pro, unlimited above); exceeding that one silently strips all motion from the document rather than skipping a single item. The plugin converts the deck to a PDF and sends that PDF, so an oversized PPTX still uploads when its PDF fits the limit. A small original is rejected when its converted PDF goes over. See Upload a document for the per-plan numbers.

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Key points

• Install the FeatPaper add-in from Microsoft AppSource and send decks to FeatPaper from inside PowerPoint.
• Use the desktop app. PowerPoint on the web only tells you to switch.
• The gate is folder edit access, not your plan. Every plan, including the free Starter plan, can use the plugin.
• Update keeps the share link and the reading history. Create starts a separate document.
• Hyperlinks, video, and embeds survive the conversion. Slide animations and transitions do not.

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Learn more

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Upload a document

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