UPCOMING WEBINAR: Run Research Your Way With AI Skills Want to update your old PowerPoint file with new data? With Displayr, there's no copying and pasting updated data into charts and tables. Displayr can automatically update outputs that were previously exported from Displayr or outputs that were retroactively linked to outputs in Displayr (using a unique id called a GUID). When Displayr updates a PPT file, all the linked outputs have their data values refreshed. This means that the original table styles and any manual changes to formatting are maintained. This article describes how to update an existing PowerPoint document with updated data. The example shows how to update a PowerPoint with data through September 2017...
...with revised data through November 2017.
Requirements
- A PowerPoint document containing objects exported from Displayr, or a PowerPoint document containing objects retrospectively linked to a Displayr document. PowerPoint objects can be tables, charts, images, and text boxes.
- A corresponding Displayr document with updated data.
- See our technical notes for exceptions and other important info about updating.
Method
1. Select the page(s) containing objects to be updated in the Report tree.
2. Go to Share > Export Report > PowerPoint.
3. Select Update Existing Document.
4. Drop your PowerPoint document into the blue dialog box, or click to browse and select the document.
5. Wait for the file to upload.
6. Select Export.
7. Open the newly created PowerPoint document. Data for all items that were previously exported/linked to outputs in Displayr will be updated.
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