#Mail merge from excel to publisher download#

use convenient shorthand placeholders '$$'.defineВ formats that map data values to specific representations.Within tables SlideMight offers more advanced features: We have shown how you can do mail merge like operations in SlideMight. aВ slide with aВ small table presenting the details of the person with that name. The corresponding links in the generated table will point to the appropriate slide that has been generated for template slide 4, i.e. The hyperlink on ' $$' in the Name column in the template slide has as definition ' #4'. The rows for signalling continuation are small, with in red ' (Continued)' ' (To be continued)'. The table on the shown template slide may hold up to 4В data rows, which happens to be not enough for the list of 6 persons. There the table will start with a row to mark that it was continued from an earlier slide, and the table on the previous slide will get a row to mark that it isВ continued on the next slide. recordsВ will continue on a cloned table on the next slide. In such cases the table will be split over multiple slides i.e. There may be too many records present to fit in a given table on a single slide. Often they will be substituted by some specific text: When SlideMight makes a new presentation based on the pattern fileВ and data, it will process such placeholders. In theВ first patternВ slide there are two so called 'placeholders', that start with a $ symbol followed by some text between braces. MailMergeDemo_data.json: a data set: 6 persons with their names, hometowns and favorite colorsД«elow you will see part of the contents of the data file and the specific configuration file.MailMergeDemo_config.json: a specific configuration.default_config.json: a default configuration.MailMergeDemo_pattern.pptx: a Powerpoint presentation with so called pattern slides.

#Mail merge from excel to publisher download#

We use files in a folder named MailMergeDemoВ residing inВ the 'Examples' archiveВ that you can download fromВ the SlideMight web shopВ (click menu bar at the top). We present aВ use case that has been inspired on George Mount's example on his blog post ' Excel Tip: Mail Merge to PowerPoint via Word Outline'. In a follow up, I'll present more advanced features such as image handling. In this article I show how you can fuse a flat data set with a PowerPoint presentation. Until recently Microsoft PowerPoint lacked a tool that acts like the mail merge functionality for Word.