title: Permanently display color palette during slideshow - MS PowerPoint
body: <p>I am making video lessons using MS PowerPoint.</p>
  
  <p>Unfortunately, my productivity is greatly reduced by the fact that during a slideshow, it takes:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>4 clicks to change from a red pen to a blue highlighter</li>
  <li>Then, changing to a green pen takes a further 4 clicks.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>This is becoming a nuisance as these 3 second bursts of inactivity have to be tediously video edited to make lessons engaging.</p>
  
  <p>Keyboard shortcuts (<code>Ctrl-I</code> and <code>Ctrl-P</code>) are only useful if I use only one colour each for the pen and highlighter, and merely switch between the two.</p>
  
  <p>I wanted to know if anything exists to permanently display a colour palette at the bottom of each slide.
  I know this is possible, because I have used <a href="http://officeone.mvps.org/inktools/inktools.html" rel="nofollow">OfficeOne InkTools</a> which works fine on PowerPoint 2013, but it does not have all the features I would like.
  I have experience coding, and am willing to make this feature myself if I was walked through which Objects I needed to modify etc.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in adavance.</p>