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Merge Overview
Merge is a powerful tool that merges a PowerPoint template slide or presentation with data from your Excel or Text files to produce customized individual slides or complete presentations -- quickly and automatically.
Think of it as Mailmerge for PowerPoint. You choose a "template" presentation, choose a data file to merge into it and Merge does the rest, automatically creating a slide -- or a complete presentation -- customized with the data from each record in your data file.
The Merge Toolbar
Merge Slides
| Icon | Name | From PPT menu bar |
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Merge Slides | PPTools, Merge, Merge Slides |
Merges a data file with a single-slide presentation; creates a new slide from each record in the data file.
Merge Presentations
| Icon | Name | From PPT menu bar |
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Merge Presentations | PPTools, Merge, Merge Presentations |
Merges a data file with a mult-slide presentation; creates a new customized/merged presentation from each record in the data file.
Help
| Icon | Name | From PPT menu bar |
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Help | PPTools, Merge, Help |
The Help button on the Merge toolbar or the PPTools, Merge, Help option on the main PowerPoint menu bar brings up a dialog box with a quick summary help listing for Merge.
The actual dialog box text will be slightly different for each of the PPTools, but it will include these buttons:
- About - Displays a dialog box that shows your registration information and allows you to purchase and/or register your demo copy of Merge
- More Help - Displays more detailed help about PPTools
- PPTools - Links you to the main PPTools web site where you can check for updates, request tech support and learn more about this and other PPTools
- PPT FAQ - Links you to the PowerPoint FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) web site
- Diagnostics - Gathers valuable diagnostics information into a file you can send us in case of problems and displays the file in Notepad so you can review it before emailing it to us
- OK - Closes the PPTools Help dialog box
The PPTools About/Registration screen