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SlideFab contains lots of features for all kinds of Excel to PowerPoint automation needs

Creating PowerPoint slides from Excel automatically can mean everything.
Fortunately, SlideFab contains many features to support all kinds of requirements.

Some might just need to write some texts into shapes.
Others might need to create a whole presentation involving charts, tables and even logical conditions.

Let’s find out what’s included.

Loops play an important role for creating one template slide more than once with different data

SlideFab has the ability to work a little like mail merge: Fill-in different data into a template slide over and over again.

To get this working, SlideFab uses loops

Iteration Loop

When your template presentation contains more than one template slide, this is the SlideFab feature to use.

Given an Excel range, this feature will iterate all its cells and create for each cell the template slides.

Slide Loop

When a template slide needs to be created more than once, this feature makes sense.

It is possible to combine the Slide Loop feature with the Iteration Loop feature for even more possibilities.

There are many SlideFab features to connect Excel contents with elements in PowerPoint

This is about the SlideFab features which bring content from Excel to PowerPoint. Depending on what it is, there are different Export Modes available.

TEXT

SlideFab writes text from Excel cells into PowerPoint shapes

It preserves the formatting

Conditional formats of the Excel cell will be applied to the shape

TABLE

SlideFab fills in data from Excel ranges into existing Powerpoint tables

It preserves the formatting

SlideFab can even manage rows and columns if the Excel range differs

SCREENSHOT

SlideFab can paste screenshots of Excel ranges into PowerPoint.

It can smartly preserve the aspect ratio

So if the screenshot does not fit, aligning it is supported, too.

CHART

SlideFab supports the automation of charts as well.

There are 5 different ways to automate charts included

Linking charts, fill-in data to charts, re-creating charts, etc.

IMAGE FROM FILE

SlideFab can read image files and put them in the presentation

It preserves aspect ratios and supports alignment

As file names come from Excel cells, this allows lots of flexibility

INDIRECT SHAPE

Excel can contain shapes as well, for example images or charts

SlideFab can copy these shapes from Excel to PowerPoint

As shape names come from Excel cells, this allows lots of flexibility

Conditions and slide sorting are helpful SlideFab features, too

The following set of SlideFab features increase help the user to create even better output slides and presentations.

Slide Condition

Sometimes it does not make sense to create all template slides

For these cases, an Excel formula can be used to make this decision

Shape Condition

Sometimes shapes shall appear on a slide and sometimes not

For these cases, an Excel formula can be used to make this decision

Slide Sorting

The output slides might require a certain order

Calculate a score for each in Excel and let SlideFab sort the output

These additional SlideFab features cover even more requirements

There are many SlideFab features which did not fit in the categories above.

Filter Pivot Tables

Data from a Pivot Table might be required during the Iteration Loop

SlideFab can set the filters of Pivot Tables on the fly

Adding Sections

When using the Iteration Loop feature,

SlideFab can create PowerPoint sections in in the output

File Decomposition

When using the Iteration Loop feature,

SlideFab can put the output slides of each round into a separate file

Saving as PDF

SlideFab can save the created output files as PDF as well

This also works in combination with File Decomposition

Writing Notes

When additional information is useful on the output slides

SlideFab can write Excel cells into the notes area of each slide

Executing VBA

For users which use custom VBA calculations,

SlideFab can execute the VBA during the Iteration Loop

Scaling Shapes

Sometimes the size of a shape needs to be data-driven

SlideFab can scale shapes in X and Y direction from different anchors

Exclude Hidden Slides

To stop SlideFab from creating certain template slides,

hiding them can optionally be used as exclusion marker

Logical Audit

When running the slide automation takes some time

the Logical Audit feature can help find issues faster upfront

Smart Referencing

Whenever possible SlideFab avoids using cell references like C3

SlideFab prefers named ranges and table references to increase robustness

Preview Mode

To give information about the PowerPoint slide automation activity

SlideFab offers a slide preview and a progress bar

UX Optimisation

SlideFab follows a friendly WYSWYG scheme for its user interface

The software concept aims to keep using the software simple

Frequently asked questions

Are these really all SlideFab features?

No, there is even more included in the software. Discover this yourself with the free SlideFab Lite license.

I am not sure whether the SlideFab features cover my needs?

You can find out by testing the free SlideFab Lite version. Alternatively, don’t hesitate to reach out.

I feel a little overwhelmed with so many features here in SlideFab. How do I cope with that?

Don’t worry. You can make use of the features step by step. The SlideFab Learning Area is also a good starting point for you.