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What is the best practice for automating the creation of a presentation? I
have a presentation that retrieves data (via web service calls) and then
displays it on 1 or more new slides. However, much of the look and feel of
the presentation is static. Should I make a slide master or template? I know
practically nothing about these things. I am a coder by trade. The VBA has
been easy, but the PowerPoint stuff has been exhausting.

If I could somehow reuse a template and then add the dynamic data to
pre-defined fields on the presentation that would be perfect.

Thank you all in advance for your help.

What is the best (or most common) practice for doing something like this?
 
What is the best practice for automating the creation of a presentation?
I
have a presentation that retrieves data (via web service calls) and then
displays it on 1 or more new slides. However, much of the look and feel
of
the presentation is static. Should I make a slide master or template? I
know
practically nothing about these things. I am a coder by trade. The VBA
has
been easy, but the PowerPoint stuff has been exhausting.

If I could somehow reuse a template and then add the dynamic data to
pre-defined fields on the presentation that would be perfect.
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Depends a lot on what sort of data you're inserting.

In some cases, you can, instead of creating a new presentation, open an
existing one that already contains specimen slides, then immediately save
it under a new name (SaveAs).

Your sample slides might contain text like @Firstname@ @LastName@ ... your
code would search for these "field names" and replace them with live data.




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