Lookup Text File

Hi PPT Community,

I am an experienced PPT user with the exception that I am not too familiar
with VB. What I would like to do is have each slide look up information from
a file. More specifically, I have one text file that has one word on each
line. I want to generate a presentation that will open this text file and,
say, for the first slide take the first word and use that word as the title.
Similarly, slide number two will look at the text file for the SECOND word
(word from the second line) and use that as the title and so on. Can anybody
conceive of a way of accomplishing this?

Thank you for your time.

Hi

You don't need VBA :-)

Create a PowerPoint presentation from a plain text file
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00246.htm

Lucy

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Lucy Thomson
PowerPoint MVP
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au


"magicmen" wrote in message
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Hi PPT Community,

I am an experienced PPT user with the exception that I am not too familiar
with VB. What I would like to do is have each slide look up information
from
a file. More specifically, I have one text file that has one word on each
line. I want to generate a presentation that will open this text file
and,
say, for the first slide take the first word and use that word as the
title.
Similarly, slide number two will look at the text file for the SECOND word
(word from the second line) and use that as the title and so on. Can
anybody
conceive of a way of accomplishing this?

Thank you for your time.

PowerPoint already handles this. Try opening your text file in PowerPoint.
PowerPoint will make slide titles for each line that starts in column 1. It
will also make first-level bullets for each line that starts with 1 tab,
second level bullets for each line that starts with 2 tabs and so on.

- Chirag

PowerShow - View multiple PowerPoint slide shows simultaneously
http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html

"magicmen" wrote in message
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Hi PPT Community,

I am an experienced PPT user with the exception that I am not too familiar
with VB. What I would like to do is have each slide look up information
from
a file. More specifically, I have one text file that has one word on each
line. I want to generate a presentation that will open this text file
and,
say, for the first slide take the first word and use that word as the
title.
Similarly, slide number two will look at the text file for the SECOND word
(word from the second line) and use that as the title and so on. Can
anybody
conceive of a way of accomplishing this?

Thank you for your time.

In article , Magicmen wrote:
Hi PPT Community,

I am an experienced PPT user with the exception that I am not too familiar
with VB. What I would like to do is have each slide look up information from
a file. More specifically, I have one text file that has one word on each
line. I want to generate a presentation that will open this text file and,
say, for the first slide take the first word and use that word as the title.
Similarly, slide number two will look at the text file for the SECOND word
(word from the second line) and use that as the title and so on. Can anybody
conceive of a way of accomplishing this?

If you're trying to create new slides from the text file, Lucy and Chirag's
answers are right on target.

If you have existing slides that you need to merge text into, or you need to
make many slides from one (think merge printing certificates or the like), there
are add-ins like our PPT Merge that do this for you. There's a free demo at
http://www.pptools.com/merge/

Or if you want to cobble up your own using VBA, we can help with that.

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