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

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:

1. 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.
2. 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