
Version 10.1 available now
SlideFab version 10.1 is available now. It brings a few bug fixes to improve performance and stability.
Read More »Version 10.1 available nowIn this category you will find all blog posts wich are related to new versions of SlideFab. This way you can follow when which new feature or bugfix was introduced.
SlideFab version 10.1 is available now. It brings a few bug fixes to improve performance and stability.
Read More »Version 10.1 available nowSlideFab version 10.0 brings two new features. First of all, SlideFab supports internal hyperlinks within the presentation. Secondly, the Table Export Mode has now more control over preserving existing rows in the PowerPoint template table. And finally, it is possible to stretch tables to the original height after removing empty rows.
Read More »Version 10.0 available. New features: Supporting internal PowerPoint Hyperlinks, improved table handling. Various bug fixes.SlideFab version 9.0 brings a two new features. First of all, SlideFab tries to fix broken links to Linked Documents on the fly. Secondly, there is a new quality setting when saving the output as PDF. Besides, SlideFab contains now also a French translation.
Read More »Version 9.0 available. New features: Fixing Linked Documents, PDF output quality settings… and French! Various bug fixes.SlideFab version 8.0 brings a couple of small new features. First of all, it is possible to let SlideFab write Excel content into the notes area of all created output slide. Secondly, there is a new feature to disable the Refresh All to improve performance. Thirdly, when using the decomposition feature, it is possible to additionally save the parts in PDF format.
Read More »Version 8.0 available. New features: Writing to slide notes, disabling Refresh All, additional PDF output. Various bug fixes.SlideFab version 7.1 is available now. It brings a few bug fixes to improve performance and stability.
Read More »Version 7.1 available nowSlideFab version 7.0 adds a small new feature which is a great leap forward for building simple Excel models: A new feature to filter pivot tables. With this it is possible to avoid VBA coding to change the pivot filter, like it was used in this old blog post for creating category trees. And this new feature also removes the need to write aggregating formulas for all those, who did not use the VBA snippet in the first place.
This means that it is much simpler to mass produce PowerPoint slides based with Excel charts, when these charts are Excel pivot table charts, which automatically change when the filtering is changed.
Read More »Version 7.0 available. New feature: Filtering pivot tables automatically with the Master Cell value.SlideFab version 6.0 adds a small new feature to Excel/PowerPoint waterfall charts and also brings a few bug fixes.
The waterfall “focus changes” feature when using the PowerPoint Chart Export Mode helps to make smaller changes more visible without having to adapt the y-axis manually. It makes sense when the totals are so huge in comparison to the changes that the changes will be merely visible as flat lines only. This feature determines the maximum and minimum values of the waterfall and then adapts starting and end point of the y-axis. It works like like zooming in on the changes.
Read More »Version 6.0 available. New “focus changes” feature for waterfall charts. Some bug fixesSlideFab version 5.0 adds a new scaling feature to shrink or stretch shapes based on factors calculated in Excel. This is really helpful to gain even more control over mass-produced slides and presentation.
Up to this point SlideFab was mainly focused on exporting content from Excel to PowerPoint. Let it be texts, charts, images or something else. Some dynamics were available with the Shape Condition feature, which allows to remove shapes based on an Excel formula outcome.
With this new version SlideFab has entered the world of manipulating PowerPoint shapes through scaling. Now, it is possible to provide separate scaling factors for horizontal and vertical dimensions. By setting the anchoring point both horizontally (left vs right vs neither) and horizontally (top vs bottom vs neither) the user gets control on how the scaling will be applied.
Read More »Version 5.0 available. New scaling feature. Some bug fixesSlideFab version 4.0 brings support of Dynamic Array Formulas when referencing the Excel worksheet. Referencing to ranges (with # at the end) using these new… Read More »Version 4.0 available. Dynamic Array Formula support and bug fixes
SlideFab version 3.1 is available now. It brings a few bug fixes to improve performance and stability.
Read More »Version 3.1 available nowThis update to version 3.0 brings various new features to SlideFab:
And last but not least, this new version incorporates a couple of bug fixes.
This new version is available at the download page. Already installed SlideFab updates automatically.
Read More »Version 3.0 available. Logical Audit, simplifying chart features and moreThis update to version 2.0 brings various new features to SlideFab:
and a few things more.
Apart from these novelties the versioning was improved to distinguish the kind of update: For feature updates like this one, the major number left of the dot increases. For smaller updates and bugfixes the minor number counts. Accordingly, this version is not 1.12 but 2.0.
This new version is available at the download page. Already installed SlideFab updates automatically.
Read More »SlideFab version 2.0 available. New features, higher robustness.SlideFab v1.11 is available now. It brings a bug fixes to improve performance and stability.
Read More »Minor update of SlideFab v1.11 available nowSo far, it was required to use the Make Slides window within SlideFab to automatically create the PowerPoint slides based on Excel. This works fine. But for a deeper integration of SlideFab into your own applications some API functionality was missing… until now. The slide mass creation can be invoked through the SlideFab API using a few lines of code. It is pretty simple to use and offers a whole new world of opportunities for all those who enjoy coding VBA.
This new version is available at the download page or updated automatically from your existing SlideFab installation
Read More »Invoking slide automation through the all new SlideFab API. Here comes SlideFab v1.10SlideFab v1.9 is available now. It contains code changes due to a recent update in think-cell 10 which led to a PowerPoint freeze after starting… Read More »Minor update of SlideFab v1.9 available now
SlideFab v1.8 is available now. It brings a couple of logical improvements to the Slide Loops feature. This feature can be used as an alternative or an enrichment to the overall iteration when creating multiple copies of a given slide. Of course, this new version is also available as all free SlideFab LITE edition.
Read More »Minor update of SlideFab v1.8 available nowSlideFab v1.7 brings not many updates but for fans of think-cell a significant one: When a PowerPoint template slide contains one or more Excel-linked think-cell charts, SlideFab will allow the chart update and break the Excel links for the output slides. In this way the output slides will contain real think-cell charts (not just mere screenshots or so) which can be fine-tuned or altered when required. Further information about how this works can be found in the documentation.
Read More »think-cell chart mass production with all new SlideFab v1.7SlideFab v1.6 is available now. It brings a couple of minor bug fixes and improvements . Of course, this version is also available as all free SlideFab LITE edition.
Read More »Minor update of SlideFab v1.6 available nowSlideFab v1.5 comes with the great new feature to automate Excel-to-Powerpoint linked charts. This is a great addition to the existing SlideFab features which can copy charts from Excel to Powerpoint as image and to update the data in Powerpoint charts. Of course, this feature is also supported in the all free SlideFab LITE edition.
MINOR UPDATE 10th January, 2019: A new installer was made available as the old SSL certificate had expired.
Read More »Mass Producing Excel Charts to Powerpoint gets easier with all new SlideFab v1.5SlideFab v 1.4 is an edition update which introduces an all new and totally free SlideFab LITE version. The idea of this LITE version is… Read More »All new and totally free SlideFab lite edition coming with v1.4 update