Excel Data Formatting Tips for DataPoint

Excel Data Formatting Tips for DataPoint

Excel is undeniably the workhorse of data management, celebrated for its versatility and robust capabilities. It empowers users to efficiently organize, analyze, and visualize data, making it indispensable for professionals across various industries. Excel’s...
Car Dealership Digital Signage

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...
FAQ: Data Security and DataPoint

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...
The Incredible Power of Customized Presentations

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...
FAQ: Showing Different Text Each Time a Slide Comes Up

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...
PowerPoint Countdown Timer

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...
The Best Software for Data Reporting

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...
Dynamic Quotes in PowerPoint

Dynamic Quotes in PowerPoint

Customers all over the world use our DataPoint plugin for PowerPoint to run a real-time slideshow with up-to-date news, weather, key performance indicators, messages, etc. Some want to add inspirational or funny quotes to this slideshow to motivate personnel....
Countdown to New Year 2022

Countdown to New Year 2022

The last countdown event of the year is always the countdown that we all do; the countdown with family and friends to New Year. Think about Times Square, New York. That is the best example of counting down to New Year. You can create that same effect in your office,...
40+ Uses For DataPoint You May Not Have Thought Of

40+ Uses For DataPoint You May Not Have Thought Of

Here is a recording of a webinar we did showcasing a wide range of ways to use DataPoint and PowerPoint, including digital signage, multi-language presentations, news, weather, politics, live polls, and much more. Please hit the Like and Subscribe buttons on this...
PowerPoint Picture Slideshow

PowerPoint Picture Slideshow

Our customers often use PowerPoint to create menu boards and price lists. A good tip for price lists is to show your items for as long as possible. The risk of a PowerPoint price list is that you are going to use multiple slides to show all your items and...
Pokemon Board Game Re-Creation

Pokemon Board Game Re-Creation

Today’s story is from Torsten Maier, a student at Penn State. Torsten wanted to re-make a favorite Pokeman board game for his sister that they played in their childhood. Torsten didn’t want to make all the Pokemon tiles by hand, so he Googled ways to...
DataPoint gets TickerPoint functionality

DataPoint gets TickerPoint functionality

DataPoint is absorbing TickerPoint. We already have our DataPoint plugin to connect text boxes, and other PowerPoint shapes to real-time data and data sources. With a normal text box, text is shown: left aligned, centered, or right aligned. But the text is placed...
The PowerPoint Selection Pane

The PowerPoint Selection Pane

There is a tool or pane in PowerPoint that everybody should know about and use, but in practice it turns out that not many are aware of this pane, or do not use it at all: the PowerPoint Selection Pane. And we all have been in a situation where you could use this...
New Rule to Change Text

New Rule to Change Text

We suspect that this little change or addition to our PowerPoint rules for text boxes and tables have a larger impact or desire for our DataPoint users. We have added a new rule action where you can specify first a condition, and when that condition is met.  You can...
New DataPoint Feature: Google Analytics Data Provider

New DataPoint Feature: Google Analytics Data Provider

Do you want to show your Google Analytics data, and KPI’s in real-time on a television screen? Or maybe you want to open your PowerPoint presentation or report with Google Analytics data, and immediately look at the latest updated information without doing a...