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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / March 2008Power Point Text Boxes and Objects
I have a presentation, which will be used in several regions. Each region will require different text in the text boxes (to suit local language) and different objects. The template, background content and text/object positions on each slide will remain fixed, regardless of language. How can I identify each text box and object on each slide, and so call (from some sort of db) the appropriate local language text or object when building each language version of the presentation? Regards Macco. > I have a presentation, which will be used in several regions. Each region > will require different text in the text boxes (to suit local language) and [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > some sort of db) the appropriate local language text or object when building > each language version of the presentation? You could use something like this in your text: :GREETING: :LOCATION: Your database could look something like: :GREETING: :LOCATION: Welcome to the United States Bienvenido a Mexico and so on. VBA or other code could search out each instance of :GREETING: and replace it with the appropriate text. Do you need to do this "on the fly" ... at presentation time? Or would it be ok to pre-generate several versions of the presentation, one for each language? If the latter, have a look at our PPT Merge add-in. Free demo at http://www.pptools.com/merge/ ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Steve, No, not on the fly. The finished ppts will be converted using Adobe Presenter (nee Breeze) and then accessed online. Which of your tools would I need to get me a working demo? Macco. > I have a presentation, which will be used in several regions. Each region > will require different text in the text boxes (to suit local language) and [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > each language version of the presentation? > Regards Macco. > Steve, > No, not on the fly. The finished ppts will be converted using Adobe > Presenter (nee Breeze) and then accessed online. > Which of your tools would I need to get me a working demo? Merge: http://www.pptools.com/merge/ Give it a try. Email steve at-sign pptools dot com if you need help getting your files set up the first time. > Macco. > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > each language version of the presentation? > > Regards Macco. ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================
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