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• March 4, 2025

  Layout issues in created presentations since SlideFab v10.0

  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…

• February 27, 2025

  Version 10.0 available. New features: Supporting internal PowerPoint Hyperlinks, improved table handling. Various bug fixes.

  SlideFab version 10.0 brings two new features. First of all, SlideFab supports internal hyperlinks within the presentation. Secondly, the Table Export…

• February 7, 2025

  Version 9.0 available. New features: Fixing Linked Documents, PDF output quality settings... and French! Various bug fixes.

  SlideFab version 9.0 brings two new features. First of all, SlideFab tries to fix broken links to Linked Documents on the fly. Secondly, there is a…

• October 25, 2024

  Version 8.0 available. New features: Writing to slide notes, disabling Refresh All, additional PDF output. 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…

• April 14, 2023

  ChatGPT recommends SlideFab

  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 is…

• September 23, 2022

  Version 7.0 available. New feature: Filtering pivot tables automatically with the Master Cell value.

  SlideFab 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…

• July 26, 2022

  Version 6.0 available. New "focus changes" feature for waterfall charts. Some bug fixes

  SlideFab version 6.0 adds a small new feature to Excel/PowerPoint waterfall charts and also brings a few bug fixes.

• February 4, 2022

  How to create resilient Excel models using spilling Dynamic Array Formulas for automation purposes - and not just only for SlideFab

  When it comes to programming most coders or programmers accept that code and data need to be separated. "Avoiding hard-coding" is a common best…

• February 3, 2022

  Version 5.0 available. New scaling feature. Some bug fixes

  SlideFab 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…

• November 12, 2021

  Version 4.0 available. Dynamic Array Formula support and bug fixes

  SlideFab version 4.0 brings support of Dynamic Array Formulas when referencing the Excel worksheet. Referencing to ranges (with # at the end) using…

• February 5, 2021

  8 Articles about creating PowerPoint slides from Excel using VBA

  The internet is full of articles, blog entries and recommendations dealing on how to create PowerPoint slides from Excel using VBA. As Excel and…

• January 18, 2021

  Version 3.0 available. Logical Audit, simplifying chart features and more

  This update to version 3.0 brings various new features to SlideFab:

• November 23, 2020

  Linking / exporting charts from Excel to PowerPoint using 5 different Export Modes of SlideFab

  When creating recurring PowerPoint slides based on Excel workbooks, there are 5 different SlideFab Export Modes to choose from. This video elaborates…

• October 28, 2020

  SlideFab version 2.0 available. New features, higher robustness.

  This update to version 2.0 brings various new features to SlideFab:

• July 7, 2020

  Loading image files into PowerPoint shapes based on an Excel model without coding

  Sometimes it is helpful to add image files into PowerPoint slides, e.g. company logos. When mass-creating slides SlideFab supports this as well. How it…

• July 6, 2020

  Putting conditional traffic lights on PowerPoint slides controlled through an Excel model

  Putting traffic lights showing either red, yellow or green is an important feature for creating many kinds of slides, e.g. flash reports. Something…

• June 16, 2020

  Invoking slide automation through the all new SlideFab API. Here comes SlideFab v1.10

  So far, it was required to use the Make Slides window within SlideFab to automatically create the PowerPoint slides based on Excel. This works fine…

• May 12, 2020

  What is important when creating Excel models (not only for SlideFab)?

  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. It's…

• March 10, 2019

  think-cell chart mass production with all new SlideFab v1.7

  SlideFab 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…

• January 13, 2019

  Using customization to individualize mass-produced PowerPoint slides

  The art of creating PowerPoint presentations is topic of a whole industry: Templates, tutorials, manuals, best practices, etc. are offered to enable…

• December 17, 2018

  Human-vs-Machine: How SlideFab performs against human brute force

  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…

• November 8, 2018

  Likert Charts mass creation in PowerPoint using Excel and SlideFab

  There are plenty of ways to visualize results from surveys and benchmarks. A classical one is a line plot of the Likert scale (i.e. Likert chart /…

• October 17, 2018

  Using Linked Charts to automatically create Excel-powered PowerPoint slides faster than ever

  Automatically creating more than 200 PowerPoint slides with dynamic title and chart in 5 minutes for free? Learn how this works using SlideFab LITE…

• September 29, 2018

  Mass Producing Excel Charts to PowerPoint gets easier with all new SlideFab v1.5

  SlideFab v1.5 comes with the great new feature to automate Excel-to-PowerPoint linked charts. This is a great addition to the existing SlideFab…

• September 10, 2018

  How Excel Tables exceed Named Ranges when writing legible formulas

  Creating legible Excel formulas is something which is very handy, typically. No matter whether another person or oneself needs to adopt and understand…

• September 10, 2018

  All new and totally free SlideFab lite edition coming with v1.4 update

  SlideFab 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 to democratize…

• July 24, 2018

  Automatically creating Category Trees in PowerPoint from Excel with SlideFab

  This SlideFab video shows how to create Category Trees automatically. A Category Tree is a structured visualization of corporate spend. It serves for…

• March 16, 2018

  How to easily automate creating slides with a PowerPoint chart from Excel

  UPDATE: Check out an even simpler and faster way to automate this example using linked charts based on the new SlideFab v1.5. Never the less, the…

• March 7, 2018

  Table spreading across slides

  This video is based on a scenario where a table with 1,000 rows in an Excel table shall be brought to PowerPoint. As 1,000 rows are way too much for a…

• March 5, 2018

  Power to the User. All new SlideFab Released

  I am very proud to announce the all new SlideFab. Simply the most powerful PowerPoint automation tool ever built.