When combining slides sometimes it is necessary to group some of them together, because the information contained in one record is placed in more than one slide. In these cases the solution is to group the slides together in the original presentation.
The developer mentioned in Example 1 wants to improve the catalog, by including views made by a professional artist of the finished homes and, in some cases, interior views. Each model can therefore require 3 or 4 slides.
| ▪ | Slide 1: An introductory slide. |
| ▪ | Slide 2: The plan and main figures. |
| ▪ | Slide 3: An exterior view of a finished house. |
| ▪ | Slide 4: An optional interior view. |
Since this is a catalog, we will be using again a combined merge (a single presentation).
Notice that, by default, PowerMerge will place the repeating slides in succession, i.e. Slide 1 - Slide 1 - Slide 1 ... - Slide 2 - Slide 2 - Slide 2 - ...
This is not what we want. We need to group together the slides for each house model, such as: Slide 1 - Slide 2 - Slide 3 - ... - Slide 1 - Slide 2 - Slide 3 - ...
In other words, we want to keep slide 1 with slide 2. slide 2 with slide 3 and slide 3 with slide 4. The 'Keep with next' ribbon tab of PowerMerge is used precisely for that purpose.
Keep with next button
Data sheet
The four slide templates
Note that we only have details available for one of the house models. We will use a conditional field to remove unnecessary slides. In this case we can use the field Detail as the condition since we only want to generate detail slides if there is an image available:
Conditional field to remove slides if there is no inside view available
The resulting slides for a house model with no inside view
The resulting slide for a house model with an inside view
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The illustrations used in the preparation of this example have been provided by: Robert Becker | www.RobertBecker.com |
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