get info for each slide from a database

[Sephers]

Say, I've got a slideshow that displays word so children can learn french. A
vocabulary presentation. Instead of adding a new slide and changing the
textboxes, is there a way of having just one slide that displays the info
from a database and when you click next goes to the next record. In WORD this
is know as Mail Merge?

Thanks
Sephers

 

[Enric]

Steve,

If there's a mistake, please let me know; I'll be happy to fix it. Thanks!
Er. Merci.

Francais is "Français"
and
Adios is "Adiós"

Pas de quoi...
No hay de qué...

;-)

Very cordialmente

Enric

 

[ML]

Steve,

I was wondering if you can help me out a bit here.

I downloaded the demo of PPTMerge, and set up the datafile (Excel) and used
the field names as text in the powerpoint template. However, when PPTMerge
started to merge (after it located the data file), powerpoint just froze
(where the msg window says merging data into slide 1). I've tried looking
for help or demonstrations in their site but couldn't find anything. Am I
missing something here?

any tips or help is greatly appreciated Steve.

cheers,
michael

 

[ML]

Hi Steve,

you were right, the merge fields wasn't unique. I was using <FieldName>
(like how it's labelled in MS Word Mail Merge), but when I changed it to
:FieldName:, it worked smoothly.

thanks a lot for your help Steve.

cheers,
Michael