Learning
This page is the starting point if you want to build an Excel-to-PowerPoint automation yourself: PowerPoint templates, Excel models, and how SlideFab connects the two.
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Three areas to learn
PowerPoint
How to build a template presentation — and how it differs from a one-off deck.
Excel
How to structure a workbook for automation, and how lookups feed the slides.
SlideFab
How to connect a workbook to a presentation and link PowerPoint shapes to Excel.
Where to start
How SlideFab actually works
SlideFab does not behave like a simple mail merge. Understand the model before you build.
Step-by-step tutorials
Build an automation from scratch, one step at a time.
Documentation
Interface reference, controls, and linking modes.
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Getting started
Tutorials
- Learn how to use SlideFab in these tutorials
- Tutorial: How to align a vertical line chart to a table in PowerPoint and make it dynamic regarding number of rows
- Tutorial: How to change the order of slides in PowerPoint with SlideFab
- Tutorial: How to connect Excel to PowerPoint
- Tutorial: How to create a heat map in PowerPoint automatically
- Tutorial: How to create multiple heat maps with different conditional formatting in PowerPoint
- Tutorial: How to create PowerPoint slides from Excel rows
- Tutorial: How to link an Excel file to PowerPoint with SlideFab
- Tutorial: How to use the slide filter feature to custom-tailor the output presentation
- Tutorial: How to write PowerPoint slide notes automatically
Documentation
- Advanced settings for the Excel to PowerPoint slide automation
- API: How to run SlideFab from e.g. Excel via VBA
- Best practice for mass-producing PowerPoint slides
- Documentation
- Excel Chart Export Mode
- General Preferences is a collection of global settings
- Image from File Export Mode
- Indirect Shape Export Mode
- Linked Chart Export Mode
- Linking PowerPoint presentations with Excel workbooks
- Logical Audit to check for potential setup issues
- Making Slides is the peak of the Excel to PowerPoint automation
- Plain Text Export Mode
- PowerPoint Chart Export Mode
- Quickstart to SlideFab: This is how it works
- Requirements in order to use SlideFab
- Screenshot Export Mode
- Slide Linking side pane for connecting Excel with PowerPoint
- Slide making automation is defined in the Iteration Loop pane
- SlideFab ribbon in PowerPoint to hold all functionality
- Table Export Mode
- Think twice before coding VBA to copy Excel to existing PPT
- think-cell automation with SlideFab takes only few clicks