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How you can learn to use SlideFab

To master something learning and practice comes first. This holds also true for SlideFab as well. On this page you will find the starting point for this journey. It will be about mastering PowerPoint, Excel and of course SlideFab. The mission is to learn to learn create a PowerPoint automation for slides based on Excel data yourself.

Learning to make the best use of SlideFab is about these three domains

PowerPoint

Learning how to create the template presentation

What is different in a template presentation from an ordinary one

Excel

Learning how an Excel is good for automation

How looking up data in Excel gets what you need for the slides

SlideFab

Learning how to connect an Excel workbook with a PowerPoint presentation

How to link shapes in PowerPoint with Excel

The learning experience contains the following categories

What is SlideFab doing actually with Excel and PowerPoint

SlideFab works differently than what you might expect. So before explaining how to build an automation, this is important.

These are the steps for build an automation yourself

If you want to learn how to create an Excel to PowerPoint automation step by step, then the tutorial is right for you.

Getting the bigger picture. How larger examples look like

While the tutorial gives a good overview of the individual steps required, the bigger picture is not addressed.

Learning to automatically create Powerpoint slides from Excel is a journey. Even with SlideFab. But the first steps will lead to great results for which programmatic solutions using VBA would take much longer and would be much more cumbersome.