SlideProof User Manual – PowerLink for Excel

10.1 Feedback & Ideas
10.2 Link to Excel
10.3 Update your data

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10.1 Feedback & Ideas

To enhance your SlideProof experience, we are building SlideProof PowerLink. This functionality will allow you to link your Excel data to PowerPoint. There is no one better than you to help us improve SlideProof!

Any ideas on how we could improve SlideProof & Excel link? Please post your ideas!

 

10.2 Link to Excel

1. Save your Excel file.
2. Copy your Excel selection.
3. Paste it into your PowerPoint slide.
4. Click on “Link” in the call-out.

Note: clicking on “Link”:

• Create a link between your Excel selection and SlideProof.
• Transform the pasted selection into an picture using Excel layout.
• Will store the Excel file name and location in the PowerPoint presentation.

 

10.3 Update your data

If you made any changes to your data in Excel, you can easily bring them into PowerPoint:

1. Select the shape you want to update in PowerPoint.
2. Hit the update icon in the call out.

Note:

• The data you modify in Excel have to be located in the selection you already copied in PowerPoint.
• If your Excel file is closed, the syncing will be done but can take up to 5 secondes.
• If any of your Excel workbooks are in “Edit mode”, the update will not work.
• If the Excel file has been moved or renamed, delete the shape and paste it again.