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How can I get PowerPoint fields to pull data from MS Access?

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Randal_Vegter - 01 Sep 2006 14:04 GMT
I am trying to create a series of MS PowerPoint 2003 slides that are
identical except for the content of several text fields.

I believe that 1) it is possible to populate these fields from the cells of
a MS Access file so that each row of the table data in the Access database
would populate each slide of the PowerPoint and 2) that these fields would
then dynamically update on the PowerPoint as I change them on the Access
file. Does anyone know how this is done? As a Plan B, is it possible to do a
mail merge to update the fields in the slides of the PowerPoint?

Thanks,
Randal
David M. Marcovitz - 01 Sep 2006 14:14 GMT
You might want to check out PPTMerge:

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/merge/index.html

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Loyola College in Maryland
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<RandalVegter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> I am trying to create a series of MS PowerPoint 2003 slides that are
> identical except for the content of several text fields.
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> Thanks,
> Randal
Randal_Vegter - 01 Sep 2006 15:10 GMT
Yep. That did it.

Thanks, that was a lifesaver.

> You might want to check out PPTMerge:
>
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> > Thanks,
> > Randal

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