Data driven Powerpoint?

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DJ

Would appreciate it if someone here can throw some ideas at me about how to
run a continuous PowerPoint presentation that is data driven by local
database. Would this be best achieved coding in PowerPoint
itself (I don't know vb very well). Is there a third-party product out
there maybe that will
do this? This is for a real-estate broker who wants to show his listings in
the street window continuously with alternate slides showing his logo etc.

Thanks
 
Hi DJ,
If you want to connect a presentation to a database, there's probably only 1
solution if you don't want to code it yourself. With
www.take-off.as/datapoint you can connect to any database for online or
offline viewing by just selecting some properties from user-friendly forms.

At the other hand, you can always code your database links. They advantage
of using a tool is that you always can switch to other databases, queries,
etc. When you code it yourself, it will probably be 1 solution for 1
specific problem. Also you will have to take care of growing presentations.
Every time you change the content of a text box etc, the memory usage of the
presentation will grow.

Good luck with your project.
Kurt.
 
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PowerPoint does not have the capability that you are looking for without
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