In this category you will find general posts which did not fit into any other category.
SlideFab v10.0 introduced a bugfix to properly set the slide layout. However, this bugfix has a side effect. This can become visible by seemingly irrational content format or position changes in the output.
Update March 5th, 2025: A fixed version is in the making. First results are promising.
Read More »Layout issues in created presentations since SlideFab v10.0
With ChatGPT bringing AI to the masses, the question for many is: How smart is AI, actually? Leaving Turing Test and other measures aside, there… Read More »ChatGPT recommends SlideFab
There are plenty of reasons to connect Excel with PowerPoint. Often this is about keeping numbers or charts up-to-date. In other cases it is about creating data-driven slides automatically. For both cases there are various add-ins available. The following list contains a selection of tools for exporting or connecting from Excel to PowerPoint.
Read More »Tools for exporting or connecting from Excel to PowerPointThe internet is full of articles, blog entries and recommendations dealing on how to create PowerPoint slides from Excel using VBA. As Excel and PowerPoint seem to be quite as old as the internet itself, the amount of information is enormous.
Additionally, there is a huge group of people asking for help in forums like reddit or stackoverflow. Quite often they show pieces of VBA code found somewhere on the internet. And then, of course, they struggle to adapt the code to their own problem.
How can it be that the offer of help is so huge but the need for individual support is even greater? Is it really so easy to create PowerPoint slides from Excel using VBA? The following list gives an overview of what is available on the internet regarding this topic. But, of course, there is much more available through web search.
Read More »8 Articles about creating PowerPoint slides from Excel using VBA
UPDATE: Please also have a look at the blog post explaining how to build a resilient Excel model using Dynamic Array Formulas and spilling ranges.… Read More »What is important when creating Excel models (not only for SlideFab)?
How much time does SlideFab really save? In order to find that out there will be a competition between Alice and Bob. On the one hand, Alice uses SlideFab. On the other hand, Bob uses his own hands with high-performance copy and paste and leverages a small VBA snippet as turbo. The task will be to create dashboard slides in PowerPoint which are filled through an Excel-based calculation.
Read More »Human-vs-Machine: How SlideFab performs against human brute force