SlideFab 2 v1.5 comes with the great new feature to automate Excel-to-Powerpoint linked charts. This is a great addition to the existing SlideFab 2 features which can copy charts from Excel to Powerpoint as image and to update the data in Powerpoint charts. Of course, this feature is also supported in the all free SlideFab 2 lite edition.
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All new and totally free SlideFab 2 lite edition coming with v1.4 update
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SlideFab 2 v 1.4 is an edition update which introduces an all new and totally free SlideFab 2 lite version. The idea of this lite version is to democratize Excel to Powerpoint automation: Power to the User! It offers all features of the full SlideFab 2 versions flex and saver. The lite version can be used to automate two shapes per slide, which will cover essential tasks, e.g. setting slide headline and some content automatically. This content can be a chart, an image, a table or even something else. With this lite version dozens, hundreds or even thousands of slides can be fabricated automatically.
New SlideFab 2 v1.3 brings important bugfix
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SlideFab 2 v1.3 is a bugfix update addressing a recent issue with the license server authentication:
New SlideFab 2 v1.2 introduces “Scale to Fit” feature and more
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SlideFab 2 v1.2 is a minor update introducing a few new features, improvements and bugfixes.
SlideFab v1.10 released
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UPDATE: SlideFab 2 is now available with groundbreaking changes. The text below is deprecated.
SlideFab v1.10 is a minor update bringing a couple of bugfixes and improvements. Most notably, SlideFab is now capable of making slides and whole presentations from a worksheet directly without opening the SlideFab window. Therefor a named range "SlideFab_X" needs to be created for a given Excel cell where X is the number of the Xth embedded setting. Now, when double-clicking this cell, SlideFab will run according to embedded setting number X. On top of this a few bugs were fixed and some aspects were improved. This makes an upgrade to SlideFab v1.10 highly recommendable.
The following lists give an overview of the novelties and bugfixes since version 1.9.
What's new in SlideFab 1.10
Features:
- Making slides directly from a worksheet via double click a cell with a named range such as "SlideFab_X" where X is a number of an embedded setting
Bugfixes:
- Removed a false error message when auto-fitting text to shape seemed not to work after shape was deleted due to condition
- Fixed a bug where conditional formats in a table were not updated properly
- Handled an issue when embedded savings were stored in the workbook but could not get read anymore
- Resolved a problem when exporting to Powerpoint chart did not work when it was linked to Excel. Now there is a warning instead
- Tweaked the positioning of the worksheet view when clicking into a range selector textbox (e.g. for shape source range). Now the chosen range is centered instead of being focused in the upper left area of the visible range
- Improved slide and shape renaming with a new message within the SlideFab Powerpoint add-in
IMAGinE Innovation: Here comes SlideFab v1.9
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UPDATE: SlideFab 2 is now available with groundbreaking changes. The text below is deprecated.
This latest release of SlideFab v1.9 comes with a couple of novelties, for example two great new export modes:
- SlideFab has now the function to open up image files (e.g. jpg, png) from the hard drive and put these images into Powerpoint slides. As filenames can be computed or looked up from lists with formulas (e.g. VLookup or Index/Match), this new feature opens up a world of new possibilities. For example, when embedding company logos into the presentation it is not necessary to add these images to the Powerpoint file itself.
- Another novelty is SlideFab's feature to support charts which are designed within Powerpoint. This is a tremendous addition to copying charts from Excel over to Powerpoint or to updating think-cell charts. The way it works is very simple: Design any chart within Powerpoint and then define where the data in Excel will come from. (Please note: this import mode will be only be visible when using charts in a Powerpoint template file. Otherwise this mode will not be shown within the export mode dropdown in the slide editor)
On top of these new features SlideFab got a massive speedup improvement which will pay off for larger presentations with hundreds of slides.
SlideFab v1.9 also supports the format painter for indirect shapes and images from files. For example, when a drop shadow (or border, reflection, etc.) is set in the template for a shape which will become a picture when running the slide fabrication, this drop shadow will appear in the output file as well.
The following lists give an overview of the novelties and bugfixes since version 1.8.
What's new in SlideFab 1.9
Feature:
- New export mode: SlideFab can now read image files and put those into Powerpoint shapes
- New export mode: SlideFab supports Powerpoint charts and updates data tables from ranges in Excel
Under the hood improvements:
- Splitting and caching to speed-up the fabrication of larger Powerpoint presentations with > 200 slides
- Disabling and restoring autosave in Powerpoint to improve speed-up
- Improved positioning precision for shapes when imported from a Powerpoint template presentation
- Minor bug fixes
The most powerful Powerpoint automation tool got even stronger: SlydMkr / SlideFab v 1.8 released
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UPDATE: SlideFab 2 is now available with groundbreaking changes. The text below is deprecated.
This brand new version 1.8 of SlideFab (formerly "SlydMkr") brings numerous novelties and innovations. A huge impact has a conceptual breakthrough in the model base / variants logic: Slide loops which can be found in the slide template edit window.
So far SlideFab was able to create one slide per slide template and variant combination. Now, SlideFab is able to create an arbitrary number of slides per slide template / variant combination. This is tremendously helpful when one slide template is just not enough to cover all content. And even better: Depending on the requirements of each variant the number of loops can be defined using formulas (e.g. when variants are categories and each category contains multiple sub categories. Now, every sub category needs to be put on a separate slide. Then slide loops allow it to flexibly determine the category-specific number of slides based on a simple count function.).
On top this SlideFab v1.8 contains an improved and redesigned reference editor which is key for most worksheet interactions.
Apart from the already existing resize mode (1st button), the named range selector (2nd button), the table / column picker (3rd button) it now contains the possibility to select fields from pivot tables.
The selection windows for named ranges, table / columns and pivot fields now contains a text-based filter. This improves handling of SlideFab when working with richer Excel files.
The following lists give an overview of the novelties and bugfixes since version 1.7.
What's new in SlideFab 1.8
Features:
- Added loops to slide templates (see explanation above)
- Remade the named range and table/column picker windows which now contain filtering features
- Added the option to reference pivot table fields for the variants list directly
- Import Handling has now the feature to remove orphaned shapes (shapes which exist in SlideFab but not in the PPT template anymore)
- When focussing the entry field of the range picker, SlideFab will automatically activate the appropriate sheet and select this range in Excel
- When opening up template file a progress bar will show how long it still takes
- SlideFab is now able to delete existing shapes, tables, etc. from a slide when the shape condition evaluates to false (instead of just ignoring it)
- For creating think-cell charts SlideFab can now handle transposed source ranges
- Added option to remove think-cell tags from shapes in the Powerpoint add-in
- SlideFab can now remove activated computers from the license server, freeing up the license for other machines.
Bugfixes / Improvements:
- Fixed a bug where an Excel table without formatting stopped the Excel table to be created at all
- Fixed a bug which stopped decomposition into multiple files by template
- Fixed a bug where Excel tables where slightly moved towards the bottom right corner as if they were copy pasted
- Ensured cleaning of the clipboard while running SlideFab
- Fixed the error message when running custom VBA code which appeared all the time - even when everything went fine
- Fixed a bug which led to an incorrect name when the template file was refreshed and the names were supposed to be taken from the template file