How generate presentation by linking different sheets together

[mmmmmarc]

I have lots of presentations that use the same slides. When the information
on such a sheet has to be updated I have to update all the presentation using
that sheet (and I don't even remember which presentations use that sheet).
So, I would like to embed such a sheet by means of linking. If I follow the
instructions in Help (copy sheet in 1 presentation, then do paste special -
paste link I can only attach the link in a text box. If I go to the slide
sorter view in the first presentation and copy a sheet, then I can do paste
special - paste link and the sheet appears. But there are two problems:
1. the notes in the note space are NOT copied
2. the object created by the past is much smaller than the original sheet
and I need to reformat it (since I'm talking about hundreds of links I would
like to preserve the exact of the original sheet after linking).

How can I do this?

Thanks for any usefull help or pointers.

Kind regards

Marc

 

[Michael Koerner]

I think I would pull out all the sheets that you have to continually update
and put them into a single presentation. Then all the presentations that
require a page from that file you could link to that page keeping your
updates to only one presentation. An excellent tutorial on linking can be
found here. http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/powerpointlinking.htm

 

[mmmmmarc]

This does not really help. It is not always possible to have a common slide
which is required by the procudure you mention. I would expect that thousands
of powerpoint users have exactly the same problem. Shouldn't Microsoft
build-in such a feature? Ideally, I could create a new presentation by
creating a new title slide and then just incorporate lots of existing slides.
But it is essential those incorporated slides would look EXACTLY as I created
them. Som the feature should be implemented such that the results is as if I
did a Copy-paste (same layout, same size, same colors). But the feature would
generate the presentation each time I open it to get the most updated version.

Why is this not yet a PowerPoint feature?
Could this be implemented by means of a macro (Visual Basic)?

Kind regards

Marc

 

[Michael Koerner]

It is a feature. You can link to your Excel sheet, and each time the sheet
gets updated you reflect the change in your PowerPoint presentation. I
suppose it could be done via VBA, but not by me.