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PowerMerge works by merging a presentation made with PowerPoint with a data sheet made with Excel.
To know what information should be affected by the merge operation, you place fields inside the presentation. Power Merge recognizes three types of fields:
| ▪ | Text fields are simply texts enclosed in brackets, like [This is a field]. For each record (row) of the data sheet, PowerMerge replaces the field with the value of the corresponding column. |
| ▪ | Conditional fields are similar to text fields, but PowerMerge does not replace values. Rather if compares the value for the field on each record to include or exclude the slide in which the conditional field is placed. |
| ▪ | Image fields are normal images inserted into the presentation that are linked with a column of the data sheet. PowerMerge will replace the image with the contents of the image files listed on the data sheet. |
There are two different merge methods:
| ▪ | Combined merge create a single presentation with slides repeated for each record. |
| ▪ | Multiple merge create a merged presentation for each record present on the data sheet. |
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Examples of use
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