Can I make a table wrap rows to the next slide in Powerpoint?

[Guest]

I have a report that's updated monthly. It has to be in Powerpoint and
cannot be an imbedded linked table (meaning it has to be displayed directly
in powerpoint and can't be an Excel document that you open from Powerpoint).
The report is a table that lists multiple projects along with status. The
length of each project's status varies from month to month, so some months I
can fit 4 projects/slide and other months it's only 2. It's very time
consuming to update this each month.

The question is, is there a way to create a table within Powerpoint (either
ppt itself or else embedded as a displayed table from Word or Excel) where
the table would dynamically adjust across slides given the space available?

 

[Guest]

I had a similar question today and found the example program at
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00784.htm
very helpful. My post had the subject: Best approach? See if this would help
you, as well.

DB_Bill

 

[Brian Reilly, MVP]

As smart as Naresh Nichani's solution is I don't think is is what you
are after. It does require a good knowledge of VBA, which some of us
have, but not all.

I know how good Naresh's solution is. He and I work together and I
asked him to write this sample code for us since I couldn't write it.

Now about your specific problem. If you are coming from Word or Excel
and not from Access, again this is a VBA solution since I can't think
of a non-VBA solution, you could check the rows.height property and
split the table across pages if the rows.height exceeded the specified
amount of height.

Not that hard but not trivial depending on your knowledge of VBA.

It's not natively built into the GUI in PPT.

Brian Reilly, MVP