I'm trying to set up data fields within a series of PowerPoint slides to
display data that I want to import from an Access table (or Excel worksheet
if that's an easier approach).
Depending on what you need to do, there's Bill's suggestion, then
There's data that you copy/paste special, link from Excel into PPT; it updates
itself each time you open the PPT
There's our Merge add-in (info/free demo at
http://merge.pptools.com) that lets
you merge data from Excel into PPT slides/presentations, much as you'd merge
data into Word docs via mailmerge. It creates static slides/presentations ...
if the data in the Excel or other file changes, you'd re-merge to do updates;
the slides wouldn't "track" changes in the source data as they would with
links.
There are other add-ins that do related tasks ...
http://www.presentationpoint.com/
is a good one to look up.