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automatically populate powerpoint slides ??

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Hi,

I'm trying to automatically populate a Powerpoint slide show presentation with data from an MS Access database but am having no luck doing so...

Any one else been able to do this ?? If so, please let me know how you did it...

Cheers,
Brian

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by Member 32650361

I haven't done this but I think I can see several difficulties. Powerpoint can probably automatically update if the data is inserted as an object. This is fairly easily done from Excel. A database, however, is a collection of single data points. To form a decent presentation you would need to perform a query in order to group the data for presentation (e.g.: so many widgets to which zip codes by which salesperson). I'm not sure if a query, as such, can be used as the source of the information, but I'm pretty sure the information could be exported to an Excel file where it would update the presentation as the file was updated.

by eburokas

There really has to be some way to export
Access or excel data to ms powerpoint They must all be connected somehow.

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