Refreshing a Excel Table Whilst a Powerpoint show is running?

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Alvin

Hello, I was wondering if you could help me with my
problem. I'm making powerpoint presentation to show film
times for a cinema. The times are inputed into a excel
table, i've then sorted it out so, on the correct day, it
shows that days times, i have also, using conditional
formatting, made it so, when a showing has gone past,
that showing greys out. This relies on the excel sheet to
be refreshed constantly because of the changing of time!
However when the presentaion is in full screen mode, it
doesnt update the table and hence doesnt grey out the
times. Im running Office XP, could you please give me any
advice on this problem.

Thanks in advance.

Alvin Blewitt
 
Alvin,
Take a look at the free Update links add-in available here - http://www.mvps.org/skp/download.htm

Regards
Shyam Pillai

----- Alvin wrote: -----


Hello, I was wondering if you could help me with my
problem. I'm making powerpoint presentation to show film
times for a cinema. The times are inputed into a excel
table, i've then sorted it out so, on the correct day, it
shows that days times, i have also, using conditional
formatting, made it so, when a showing has gone past,
that showing greys out. This relies on the excel sheet to
be refreshed constantly because of the changing of time!
However when the presentaion is in full screen mode, it
doesnt update the table and hence doesnt grey out the
times. Im running Office XP, could you please give me any
advice on this problem.

Thanks in advance.

Alvin Blewitt
 
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Hello Alvin,

PowerPoint doesn't provide the functionality that you are looking for
without resorting to VBA or add-ins.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that it's important that
PowerPoint provide options for dynamically updating slide contents during a
running slide show (without having to resort to VBA or add-ins), don't
forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions)

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Microsoft Corporation
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Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
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