Check Numbers & Check Period

When to use it: the last pass before a board or client deck leaves the building — catch inconsistent figures and mismatched “as of” periods while you still have time to fix them.

Check Numbers

Scans text shapes across the deck for numeric values and surfaces formatting inconsistencies — for example $1,234 on one slide and $1234 on another, or truncated figures. Currency symbols, digit groups, and scale suffixes (%, k, m, bn) are recognized; lone single digits and years are skipped to reduce noise.

Check Period

Scans period labels across the deck — months, quarters, halves, YTD/QTD, fiscal and calendar years (e.g. FY26, CY25), plus Actual / Budget / Forecast tags — and groups them by type so a stale “Q1” next to a “YTD May” chart, or a Budget figure where Forecast belongs, is easy to spot.

Use case

After Push Updates refreshes the pack, run Check Numbers and Check Period once. Fix anything they flag, then stamp Draft off and send. Pair with Make Independent if the deck is leaving the firm.