🧅 Onion Tools

The last forbidden feature in PowerPoint: frame-by-frame Animation!

Onion Tools is a PowerPoint add-in for frame-by-frame animation — onion-skin guides, smart backgrounds, and one-click GIF export, right inside your deck.

1. Get OnionPPT.ppam (from a release or whoever built it for you).
2. In PowerPoint: File → Options → Add-ins → Go... → Add... and pick the .ppam.
3. Look for the Onion Tools tab. You're in.

More detail → docs/INSTALL.md

1. Import the VBA modules from src/vba/ into your .pptm / add-in project.
2. Embed src/ribbon/customUI.xml as the Ribbon UI (see docs/INSTALL.md).
3. Save as PowerPoint Add-In (OnionPPT.ppam).

Optional helper scripts live in scripts/.

onion-tools/
├── README.md ← you are here
├── docs/
│ └── INSTALL.md ← install & build notes
├── src/
│ ├── vba/ ← VBA source
│ │ ├── OnionSkinTools.bas
│ │ └── OnionSkinEventBridge.cls
│ └── ribbon/
│ └── customUI.xml ← Ribbon tab definition
└── scripts/
 ├── install-onionppt.ps1
 ├── uninstall-onionppt.ps1
 └── patch_ribbon.py ← patch customUI into an existing .ppam/.pptm

• Turn on an animation mode (Classic or Duplicate) before using Background Shapes.
• Set Background keeps your selected figures editable — it adds locked copies behind them.
• Use Export → Set output folder... so GIFs land somewhere sensible.

• Microsoft PowerPoint (Windows)
• Macros enabled for the add-in

CC BY-NC 4.0 — free to use, share, and edit. Please don’t sell it or use it in paid work without asking first.

Full details in LICENSE · Creative Commons deed

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