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.