How to Display Excel Data from SharePoint in PowerPoint
In today's data-driven business environment, presentations often need to include the latest data for accurate decision-making and compelling storytelling. When that data resides in Excel files on SharePoint, incorporating it into PowerPoint presentations can seem like...
Visit PresentationPoint at “Present to Succeed”, Sofia Bulgaria, 2024
We are thrilled to announce that PresentationPoint will be participating as a sponsor at the upcoming Present To Succeed conference, now in its 4th edition. This prestigious event, which is the largest of its kind globally, brings together professionals from around...
Executive Summary PowerPoint Presentation using DataPoint
In this article, we explore the topic of executive summary PowerPoint presentations, what they are, why they are important, and how to automate their creation.What are Executive Summary PowerPoint Presentations? An executive summary PowerPoint presentation is a brief...
Winning the Election with Personalized Political Campaign Videos
In the fast-paced world of politics, voter engagement has shifted dramatically. Today's technology-laden landscape necessitates tools and strategies that facilitate rapid, personalized communication with potential voters. Enter DataPoint, a dynamic software solution...
Real-time Reporting Made Simple: Automating Data and Dashboards in PowerPoint
In today's fast-paced business environment, generating PowerPoint reports manually can be a time-consuming and error-prone task. Fortunately, automation offers a solution to streamline this process, allowing you to focus on valuable insights rather than tedious...
Harnessing the Power of Real-Time Data: Transforming Presentations with the DataPoint Plugin
In the dynamic world of business, staying informed and up-to-date is crucial for making informed decisions. When it comes to presentations, incorporating real-time data offers a multitude of advantages. In this blog post, we will explore the benefits of using...
Car Dealership Digital Signage:
Digital signage has quickly become a force to reckon with in the automobile sphere, and for a good reason. Embracing car dealership digital signage systems can drastically transform business operations, people's experiences, and how information is passed within...
Personalized Videos: The Game Changer in Digital Marketing
In the vibrant world of digital marketing, Personalized Videos have emerged as a real game-changer. They can make your message more memorable, enhance audience engagement, and drive serious conversion results. One tool that stands out in achieving this is the...
Data Presentation 101: How to Create Powerful Visuals with DataPoint Plugin for PowerPoint
In today's data-driven world, effective communication of information is key to success. With the rise of big data, businesses and organizations are inundated with information that needs to be analyzed and presented in a clear and concise manner to make informed...
Unleash the Power of Your Data with PresentationPoint Custom Data Services
As a decision-maker in today's fast-paced, data-driven world, extracting value from your data has never been more important. We understand that dealing with multiple data sources and formats can be challenging. That's why we're excited to introduce you to...
Product Catalog Design using PowerPoint and DataPoint
Did you know, you could use PowerPoint and DataPoint as tools for automated product catalog design? In this article, we visit Sara Mau from Botania.dk who runs a webshop selling hundreds of different flower seed variants. As you might imagine, managing such an array...
Maximizing Impact: 14 Samples of Information and Data to Display on Digital Signage Televisions
Digital signage televisions have become a popular tool for businesses to communicate with their customers or employees, providing a dynamic and interactive way to display information. However, deciding what to show on your digital signage can be a daunting task. With...
Boosting Viewer Engagement: 24 Examples of Real-Time Data on TV Screens
Real-time data is becoming increasingly important in many different industries for informed decision-making. Displaying such data on television screens can be an effective way to help people access, interpret, and respond to the information in real-time. Here are 24...
Empower Your Presentations: PowerPoint and DataPoint Plugin – Simplifying Real-time Dashboards for Motivation and Results
In today's fast-paced business world, effective communication and data visualization are vital for success. When it comes to creating real-time dashboards and dynamic presentations, PowerPoint has long been a popular choice. However, many individuals and organizations...
A Classy Collection: The 11 Best Fonts for Exceptional Reporting
In the world of reporting, the choice of fonts holds immense power. The right font can elevate the visual appeal of a report, enhance readability, and communicate information effectively. With a plethora of font options available, it can be overwhelming to choose the...
Dental Waiting Room Digital Signage: Reducing Anxiety
A trip to the dentist can be a nerve-wracking experience for many people, with dental anxiety being a prevalent concern among patients of all ages. The waiting room, often the first point of contact, plays a crucial role in setting the tone for the entire dental...
16 Annoyances About Old Data on PowerPoint Presentations: Let’s Move Beyond Static Slides
In today's fast-paced and data-driven world, static presentations with outdated data have become a hindrance to effective communication and decision-making. PowerPoint presentations have long been a popular medium for conveying information, but relying on old data not...
Why Use Digital Signage for School Advertising
Digital signage has revolutionized the way schools communicate with their students, parents, and staff. It enables schools to display important information, announcements, and upcoming events in a visually appealing and interactive way. By utilizing PowerPoint and...
Streamline Your PowerPoint Presentations with Data Merge Using PresentationPoint’s DataPoint Plugin
If you frequently make presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint and find yourself manually updating your charts and slides every time data changes, you need to try PresentationPoint's DataPoint Plugin. With this powerful plugin, you can create dynamic, data-driven...
Wayfinding Digital Signage to Reduce Customer Uncertainty
Effective wayfinding digital signage allows people to move smoothly through their surroundings, whether it's a shopping mall, hospital, office complex, or any other space. Wayfinding not only aids navigation but also alleviates customer uncertainty, creating a more...
Aptos: Microsoft’s New Office Font Bringing Modernity to Documents
In the ever-evolving world of typography, fonts play a crucial role in shaping the visual identity of a brand or document. Microsoft, known for its commitment to innovation and design, has recently introduced a new font called Aptos. Previously known as Bierstadt,...
The Hidden Time Sink: Copying and Pasting Values in PowerPoint
Do you ever find yourself spending endless hours in PowerPoint, copying and pasting values from one slide to another, or from another document or source to your slides? If so, you're not alone. Many people underestimate the amount of time they spend on these seemingly...
ChatGPT PowerPoint Outlining: Using AI To Plan Your Presentation
I love outlining! I use outlines when planning, brainstorming, writing, and creating presentations. In this article we will explore the benefits of using ChatGPT PowerPoint outlining to speed up and enhance your presentation creation process. When you start up with a...
Data Visualization Best Practices: Designing Engaging and Insightful Visualizations
In today's data-driven world, effective data visualization has become crucial for conveying complex information in a simple and visually appealing format. PowerPoint, with its versatile features, allows users to create impactful presentations incorporating insightful...
PresentationPoint: Fighting Slow Communication
Effective communication is essential for any successful organization. However, slow communication can be a major obstacle to productivity, collaboration, and success. That's why we're excited to introduce our new slogan, "Fighting Slow Communication." The Problem with...
Festival Event Wayfinding Made Easy
Festivals are a great way to spend time with friends and family, enjoy music, food, and drinks, and create unforgettable memories. However, with large crowds and multiple stages or attractions, festivals can also be overwhelming and confusing, especially when it comes...
Navigate, Inform, Impress: 10 Benefits of Hotel Digital Signage
In the hospitality industry, a guest's experience is everything. As a hotel operator, you want your guests to have the best experience possible to keep them coming back. Here are 10 ways you can use hotel digital signage to maximize your customer experience and to...
The Benefits of Restaurant Digital Signage
Restaurant digital signage is one of the most powerful and most cost effective ways to promote your restaurant and engage your patrons. If you're looking for a way to get more people in your doors, or if you're just looking for a way to get them to order more food and...
PresentationPoint celebrates 25th birthday
PresentationPoint, a leading provider of digital signage software and presentation and automation tools, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Founded in 1998, the company has grown from a small startup to a global player in the digital signage industry. Over...
Advantages of Using Digital Menus in Your Restaurant
In the current digital age, technology is rapidly transforming every aspect of our lives, including the way we order food in restaurants, now by offering digital menus. A digital menu is a digital version of your restaurant's printed menu. It's an easy way to provide...
From Clay Tablets to Cloud-Based Platforms: The Evolution of Public Signage
Evolution of Public Signage What’s one thing a barbershop, a laundromat, and an arcade all have in common? No, not quarters. They all have some sort of signage advertising their services. In fact, most businesses do. Human beings have been communicating since the dawn...
Data Integration Tool: Combine And Visualize Information
Data is a key component of any business. The information you gather can be used to make important decisions, connect with new customers, and even show off to investors. But what do you do when you have multiple sources of data? How can you combine data from all your...
Free Tool to Export PowerPoint Slides to High Quality Pictures
Introduction You can export a PowerPoint slide as high quality PNG or JPG by changing a registry setting. That is not my favorite way to do it, because you have to go into and make changes to the heart of your computer. Export a PowerPoint slide as PNG or JPG picture...
PowerPoint presentation to show Key Performance Indicators
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are a great way to measure the performance of your business. They show how you're doing against your goals and help you keep track of changes over time. KPI templates for a PowerPoint presentation can be used for many different types...
Creative Business Presentation Ideas That Will Make Your Slides Rock
Business presentations have a reputation for being boring. Too many slides with bullet points and reams of financial tables. Here are our creative business presentation ideas to help you break out of boring and into grabbing your audience's attention.One Point Per...
Waiting Room Digital Signage Appointments Screen
In this video and article, we will show you how to make a simple waiting room digital signage appointment screen using PowerPoint and DataPoint. The video shows the step-by-step process, but we have also laid out the process in this article.Medical waiting rooms are a...
FAQ: Data Security and DataPoint
Data security is a major concern for all organizations. With today's world of international hackers, social media tracking, and overreaching government surveillance, it's important to know how your organization can protect its data. With this in mind, we put together...
Case Study: Election Viewing Party
In this article, we discuss how Robertson County Government in Tennessee in the US used DataPoint to create their own election dashboard software for their election viewing party. A big thank you to Chet Biggers, IT Manager for Robertson Country for sharing this story...
PowerPoint Automation: Why You Need It and How to Get It
Microsoft Office is a very powerful tool that can be even more powerful with PowerPoint automation. Why do you need to use Automation in PowerPoint? Let's face it - we are all far too busy to be spending time copying and pasting numbers, pictures, and other data into...
Scoreboard Software: British Gymnastics
This story comes from the UK and shows how one of our clients, British Gymnastics, uses DataPoint as scoreboard software for some of their events. About British Gymnastics British Gymnastics is the National Governing Body for Gymnastics in the UK. They are based at...
PowerPoint Advance Slides Control with DataPoint
How do you control whether you want your data-enabled PowerPoint to advance slides manually instead of jumping automatically to the next slide? Data-enabled presentations are normal for our DataPoint plugin. You can link your slides to data and show data in real time....
The Incredible Power of Customized Presentations
Imagine if each person in your audience received a customized presentation just for them based on their needs and interests. That's right: a custom presentation. Just for them. If you can't imagine it, that's because it sounds impossible—but not by using DataPoint's...
12 Digital Signage Benefits You Should Take Advantage of Right Now
Digital signage is exploding. Are you missing out? Here are some digital signage benefits your business or organization should take advantage of right now.#1: Easier Content Creation Creating content for digital signage is much easier than creating content for...
Split-Flap Displays Reimagined: Split-Flap TV
Remember the split-flap displays on train stations and airports? The ones that showed your flight or train schedule, with letters and numbers that clacked as they changed? Generations of travelers have many fond memories of these clacking information screens seeing...
A PowerPoint Designer’s Worst Nightmare
What is a PowerPoint designer's worst nightmare? When your amazingly crafted, beautiful PowerPoint presentation ends up in the hands of your client's employees who then proceed to butcher your treasured creation beyond recognition!You know the feeling. You spend hours...
Lobby Digital Signage Case Study: St. John Properties
In this case study, we explore how St John Properties uses DataPoint to create their building lobby digital signage directories. https://youtu.be/uy88qbZNjco About St. John Properties St. John Properties is a commercial Real Estate company headquartered in...
FAQ: Showing Different Text Each Time a Slide Comes Up
I know there is the RSS news ticker feature. But, I wonder if we could have a word doc, excel file, or something with rows of text and set up a slide so that each time it comes up, it will randomly select a line of text to display? We wanted to do something like a...
Microsoft announces Power BI PowerPoint Integration – How Does it Compare to DataPoint?
Microsoft recently announced Power BI PowerPoint integration, finally connecting two of their major software products - their premier data reporting tool (Power BI) with the world's leading presentation software (PowerPoint). Let's examine their solution and see what...
Certificate Maker: Create Custom Certificates In Minutes
A recent question by one of our clients wondering if they can use PowerPoint as a certificate maker to generate bulk certificates.Is it possible to generate certificates in bulk? I want to create a certificate for all our students, designed in PowerPoint, and then...
The Power of QR Code Signage for Your Business
Digital signage is a powerful tool. With its motion, video, and vivid imagery, it's no surprise that it grabs our attention as we walk by. But what happens after the patron sees the ad? How do you get them to take action NOW instead of just going about their business?...
How to Make a PowerPoint Slideshow that Runs Continuously
We best know PowerPoint with its interactive presentations that are typically used at meetings where you have one person (the presenter) who shows a slide and tells about it. When he is finished, he uses the mouse or a presenter stick to click and move to the next...
PowerPoint Countdown Timer
A ticking countdown timer on a television screen is great to announce an event or launch of something. As a business owner or as a good leader in an office or company, you need to create awareness or trigger curiosity for an event. So, you are to announce your event...
Thematic Maps With Ease: Data-Based Color Changes
Recently I was asked by a customer if DataPoint can show thematic maps, colored by data. A thematic map is a type of map that portrays the geographic pattern of a particular subject matter in a geographic area or shape. Of course, the answer was yes, but you need to...
5 Ways To Use Digital Signage QR Codes to Increase Sales
QR codes (also called quick-response codes) are like barcodes, but they're made to be scanned by a cell phone camera. They're used by businesses today in all kinds of ways—from marketing to creating a seamless payment experience. The beauty of QR codes is that they...
New York Weather Template Free Download
Download our free New York weather template for PowerPoint. This template displays the current weather conditions, the high temperature and low temperature of the day, as well as the forecasted weather for the next five days. This free New York weather template will...
Nursery Digital Signage Case Study – Garden View Nursery
Our latest success story and nursery digital signage case study comes from Tyler Meahl, IT Manager at Garden View Nursery in Irwindale, California. Digital Signage Problem Poor internet was preventing Garden View from using a digital signage solution for their retail...
The Best Software for Data Reporting
“Data” and “report” are the two words you are well accustomed to, even though you may or may not have to deal with it every day. But in case you have to create reports and manage dashboards every single day, then you are already aware of how arduous it is to manually...
How to Show Real-Time and Dynamic QR Codes for PowerPoint
QR code images or quick response images are often used in prints and displays. These can be scanned with your telephone's camera app. This camera app detects that it is a QR code image, and translates the information into a link to a destination where you can find...
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