Documentation

Welcome to the SlideFab 2 manual. This written documentation is supposed to give detailed information and advise on how to use SlideFab 2. Accordingly, this manual will explain all parts of the user interface. Moreover, it will provide recommendations on what works best. To be honest, automatically creating PowerPoint presentations based on arbitrary Excel workbooks can get complicated.

Thus, there is another an important advice upfront: Besides this written manual it is highly recommended to watch the video tutorials. These will enrich this written, sober manual with recorded use-cases. So please follow the links below to the detail pages to learn more.

Maybe you prefer getting practical experience with SlideFab 2 first. Sure, go ahead and download SlideFab 2 lite. This will give you the whole functionality because it only limits the number of shapes per slide to 2. So you can realize simpler Excel to PowerPoint automations for free.

Finally, in case of further questions or request, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

SlideFab 2 Manual Outline

• Documentation
• Think twice before coding VBA from Excel to PowerPoint
• Quickstart to SlideFab 2
• How SlideFab 2 works
• Requirements for SlideFab 2
• The SlideFab 2 ribbon
  • Linking PowerPoint presentations with Excel workbooks
  • The Iteration Loop tab
  • The Slide Linking tab
    • Plain Text Export Mode
    • Table Export Mode
    • Excel Chart Export Mode
    • PowerPoint Chart Export Mode
    • Linked Chart Export Mode
    • Indirect Shape Export Mode
    • Image from File Export Mode
    • Screenshot Export
  • The Advanced settings tab
  • The Logical Audit tab
  • Making slides
  • General Preferences
• Creating think-cell charts with SlideFab 2 automatically
• Invoking slide automation from your own code using VBA and the SlideFab 2 API
• Best practice