Interactively in data into a live presentation

[Hugh]

Is it possible to interactively insert selected fields (both standard and
user created fields) from a Outlook contact into a PowerPoint presentation
live as I present the pps? I know I can pull in graphs from Excel and doc
from Word. Kind of like a mail merge only I want to select one contact and
select data fields from that contact. From either an Outlook contact or
Business Contact Manager contact.

 

[Brian Reilly, MVP]

Hugh,
Naresh Nichani, an Access MVP and I published some code to automate
Outlook to send an email from PPT. It could serve as a start for you
to get the Outlook object and retrieve data as variables to insert
into PPT. The sample code is downloadable and not password protected
and is available at http://pptfaq.com/FAQ00795.htm

It's not exactly what you are looking for but might give you a good
start.

Brian Reilly, MVP

 

[Hugh]

Brian, thank you. Yes, this will help me.

Hugh,
Naresh Nichani, an Access MVP and I published some code to automate
Outlook to send an email from PPT. It could serve as a start for you
to get the Outlook object and retrieve data as variables to insert
into PPT. The sample code is downloadable and not password protected
and is available at http://pptfaq.com/FAQ00795.htm

It's not exactly what you are looking for but might give you a good
start.

Brian Reilly, MVP

 

[Brian Reilly, MVP]

Hugh,
Glad this will help. If you need more, get back here but realize
Naresh Nichani who actually wrote the code is in India and Monday and
Tuesday are Indian holidays.

But it sounds like you are comfortable with coding and this will get
you going quite well.

Brian Reilly, MVP