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DataPoint manual
Introduction
Designing

Data connections

Slide properties

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Presenting
 
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Designing

A data shape is a standard Microsoft PowerPoint shape or object that can bound to DataPoint. The most used shapes are probably text boxes, images, graphs and tables. You can add a date or ticking clock to your slides. Or when you use data connections, you can specify which text is displayed within a text box. Or choose to display a linked OLE object such as a picture or video, based on the information that is deducted from the data connection.
 

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Graph shapes
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Table shapes
 
Introduction

A table is a collection of rows and columns that can be easily and directly linked to a data source. The advantage of this is that you can link many rows and columns at once without creating individual text shapes.

DataPoint will automatically place the first column of your data connection in the first row of the table.

 

Adding a table to your slide

Click Insert > Table in your PowerPoint menu and specify the number of rows and columns. Click DataPoint > Table properties to continue.

 

Available connections

Select an existing data connection from the list. These items are the data connections you have defined as data sources for this presentation.

 

Copy column names in first row

Check this option to copy automatically the column names into the first row of the linked table. In case you want to enter your column names yourself, uncheck this option and set the Start filling at row to 2 or more.

 
Automatically adjust number of rows

Adjust the number of rows in this table to the number of rows returned from the data connection.

 

Automatically adjust number of columns

Adjust the number of columns in this table to the number of columns returned from the data connection.

 

Start filling at row

By setting this value you specify at which row the table filling should start. This can be useful when you have column names or headers at the first row. In that case you can set this value to 2 or 3.

The value 2 will start filling the data directly below the column names while a value of 3 would keep 1 blank line between the headers and the real data.

 
Clear

Click Clear to remove all DataPoint properties from the table and return to a normal and static shape.

 
 

 

 

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