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.
A text box in PowerPoint is a container or shape
containing text. In normal presentations this
text is entered when designing a slide and further
on, it will remain static.
By specifying data field information at a normal
text box, the text becomes dynamical. When presented
it will be filled with the actual values from
the underlying data connection.
Adding a text box
to your slide
Just
add a new text shape to your slide and set its
format. Click DataPoint > Text shape 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.
The column and row information that you can later
next, are depending on the chosen data connection.
Column
Choose
a column from the available columns list. These
are all the columns that DataPoint could find
in the defined data connection.
Row
Enter
the row number of the record you want to use.
Normally this starts with value 1 but in case
you want to display multiple data rows on 1 slide,
then you can put multiple text shapes on this
slide and increment the row number for each new
row.
Clear
Click
Clear to remove all DataPoint properties from
the text shape and return to a normal and static
shape.
