It's been boggling me for years but---is there a way to automate creating slides from a table in excel following a certain formatting? Say I have a table of action plans (activity, PIC, target date, status, etc). Is there a way to create a template on PPT and generate slides per line item of the table?

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Yes - learn Visual Basic and you can build slides automatically out of excel in PowerPoint. Have done this loads. If you have the office objects mode loaded in the reference library there’s a lot you can do.

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