Hi DJ,

So what you have in Excel is all within Excel - the Assistant displays there
in response to a button there and pulls information from within Excel as
well. All relatively straightforward.

I don't know PowerPoint well enough to know whether there is any kind of
equivalent to a hidden sheet where you can store your data but, as you are
looking at using a Word document I presume you have investigated and found
that there isn't.

If you are going to store your infomation in Word, you will need to access a
(hidden) instance of Word to read the document. As an aside, if you already
have code to access similar data from Excel, you could just as easily use a
hidden instance of Excel as your data source.

Assuming you have set up your Word document then something like this will
allow you to access it from PowerPoint

Dim appWord as Word.Application
Dim docWord as Word.Document
Dim tabWord as WordTable
Set rowWord as WOrd.Row
Set strHeading as String

Set appword = CreateObject("Word.application")
Set docWord = appWord.Open "C:\The Path\To Your\Document.doc")
Set tabWord = docWord.Content.Tables(1)

Set rowWord = tabWord.Rows(22) ' <=== Whatever Row you want
' If rows don't correspond to ID numbers the above might require a Find -
it's your data, I don't know

strHeading = rowWord.Cells(2).Range.Text
strHeading = Left$(strHeading, Len(strHeading)-2) ' <=== strip off end of
cell mark

' extract data in similar fashion - I don't know how it's organised

' etc. etc. - react to user .. and when you're done ...

set rowWord = Nothing
Set tabWord = Nothing
docWord.Close
set docWord = Nothing
appWord.Quit
Set appWord = Nothing

(Apologies in advance if I have made any typos - I hope they're obvious)
You will need a reference to the Word Library (Tools > References > check
Microsoft Word x.x Library)

I hope I've understood and that is along the right lines to get you going.
If not, do come back.

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Enjoy,
Tony