Slide datasheets (WIP)

The slide datasheet is a fully functioning Excel workbook that is embedded in a PowerPoint slide. Here's what you can do with the slide datasheet:

• Manage the data for all charts and other elements on a slide in one place.
• Add comments and calculations that you don't want to show on your slide.
• Create a chart and a table from the same data range (see Duplicate chart data as a table).
• Save the slide datasheet to your computer as an Excel file.

To open the slide datasheet, on the PowerPoint ribbon, select Insert > think-cell > Tools > Open Slide Datasheet.

As long as PowerPoint is open and the slide is selected, the slide datasheet stays open. To close the datasheet, on the title bar, select Close .

There are two ways to link charts or other elements to the slide datasheet:

• To link an existing element to the slide datasheet, open the element's datasheet (see Element datasheets (TO DO)). Then, on the datasheet toolbar, select Move Data to Slide Datasheet .
• To create a chart, table, or other element from existing data in the slide datasheet, see the following topics:
  • Create charts from Excel
  • Create tables from Excel
  • Create text linked to Excel
  • Create Harvey balls and checkboxes from Excel
  • Add images from Excel (TO DO)