Nov 8, 2022 | DataPoint, FAQ
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...
Jun 19, 2022 | DataPoint, FAQ
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...
May 26, 2022 | Articles, Digital Signage, FAQ, How-To
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...
Sep 19, 2020 | DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, FAQ
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...
Sep 12, 2020 | DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, Digital Signage, FAQ
Hi, I’m currently figuring out if this software will be right for our company. I’m using information from an Excel sheet. Could you please tell me how to duplicate the exact same slide & properties, just with the different information per row? I hope...
Aug 28, 2020 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, FAQ
PowerPoint gives me a Security Alert telling me that the external pictures have been blocked. I do have to click on Enable Content which means the software won’t automatically start my presentation without some manual intervention. Do you know how I can get...
Aug 8, 2020 | FAQ, How-To
Does it make sense to export a 1920×1080 PowerPoint presentation to a 4K video? Most of the pictures deployed in the presentation are in full HD 1920×1080 and not in 4K. VA Easy designing in PowerPoint with multiple slides, build your own commercials and advertising...
Oct 19, 2019 | Articles, FAQ, iPoint
I know that many of you who have followed PresentationPoint for some time and have seen our SignageTube launch information are smart enough to have probably noticed something odd. You might be thinking something like… “SignageTube for digital signage?...
Jul 20, 2019 | DataPoint, FAQ
I want to show the last entry of a column in Excel in real-time. I have an excel file, in which a data (numbers) is added to a specific column. I would like to present the current number updated in the last row of the column in a text box every 1 sec. How can I do...
Jul 6, 2019 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, FAQ
Can we use our own PowerPoint templates to use them with DataPoint for linking? Can we use PowerPoint templates as supplied by others as well? BL Sure, DataPoint and all other PresentationPoint products use native and normal PowerPoint presentations. So this gives you...
Jun 22, 2019 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, FAQ
I use DataPoint to display real-time information from a database during an event. When there is a value 30 in the database, then I want to display 30 icons at different locations on the screen. Sort of a visual representation of a number while updating in real-time....
Jun 15, 2019 | FAQ
As yours is the first website that gets near to the information I’m looking for, I’m sorry, but you’re it for my question.Problem is that (a)I’m old and (b) I don’t have PowerPoint but this can be amended. I’m working with Google...
Jun 1, 2019 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, FAQ
How to show up-to-date pdf documents in PowerPoint Do you have a solution to dynamically show pdf documents? AS People often ask us how to display up-to-date PDF documents on PowerPoint slides. We do have our DataPoint add-on to display information in real-time from...
May 25, 2019 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, FAQ, Financial
How do I add a ticker symbol using DataPoint? Something like this where it would auto update and we could do several other companies… BP We were recommending the Yahoo API for that earlier, but Yahoo has been shutting down some data services. We have found another...
May 23, 2019 | DataPoint Real-time Screens, FAQ, How-To
Have you heard about the much needed 4K PowerPoint Presentations? In the trending world of technology and digitalization, high definition and resolution is a must. Pictures and videos are more tempting and alluring when their visuals are extravagant. The notion and...
May 4, 2019 | DataPoint Real-time Screens, FAQ, iPoint
How can I Play a PowerPoint Slideshow on TV? SG Sometimes you need to display a PowerPoint slideshow on a TV to show your presentation on the meeting, a conference, or use the slideshow for an information screen or advertising display. Most of our customers use this...
Apr 18, 2019 | DataPoint, FAQ
I want to remove DataPoint from my PowerPoint application How do I Remove DataPoint From my PowerPoint Application? MF Sometimes you need to uninstall our software like the DataPoint add-on. This happens when a trial expired or when you want to move the add-on to...
Apr 13, 2019 | DataPoint, FAQ
With DataPoint you can link text boxes to data sources like files and databases. When the dynamic text box is used on a slide with a transition, then you will see old data during the transition since PowerPoint has made a bitmap or cache of the slide and it uses that...
Apr 6, 2019 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, FAQ
How many users can the DataPoint Enterprise edition accommodate? We would like to find out more information about your Enterprise edition for DataPoint. How many users can the Enterprise edition accommodate? (users that are able to create data-driven presentations)...
Feb 23, 2019 | FAQ
I am looking into something to play a PowerPoint presentation on multiple screens from one computer. I am looking into something to play a PowerPoint presentation on multiple screens from one computer. We are currently using 3 static images on 3 screens and we want to...
Nov 24, 2018 | DataPoint Automation, FAQ
How to Merge PowerPoint presentations into one big presentation I have multiple PowerPoint created and they have DataPoint connections. I want to merge them together into one. How can I merge them together and keep all my DataPoint connections? I don’t want to...
Nov 1, 2018 | DataPoint Real-time Screens, FAQ, Marketing and Advertising
How to Remotely Edit a Presentation? “If you need to edit your current presentation, do you need to take it down to edit it? How about remote editing, is that possible?” MA With our software, all the running slideshows are running as a temporary and...
Jul 7, 2018 | DataPoint Real-time Screens, FAQ, VideoPoint
In this FAQ we will show you how to stream your camera video from your phone to tv by capturing a live IP camera output from a telephone and showing it on your PowerPoint slideshow. Hi, using VideoPoint on PowerPoint 2016. I tried to connect the iPhone camera via IP...
Jul 1, 2018 | DataPoint Real-time Screens, FAQ
What is the possible maximum PowerPoint resolution for slideshows? I’m looking at Dynamic Wall. Can Dynamic Wall do a 1 x 4 wide format (64 X 9)? What resolution can it produce on each of the screens? SB We have 2 products that can be used to display a...
Jun 3, 2018 | Attractions and Events, Case Studies, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, Education, Evergreen, FAQ
In this article, we answer a customers’s question about getting data into PowerPoint certificates. I have the names in an excel document and I have a designated text field within a PowerPoint slide (which is where I have the certificate currently). I was going...
Apr 28, 2018 | DataPoint, FAQ
In our new FAQ section we discuss a frequently asked question that we get in at our helpdesk. This time we were asked how to use linked pictures for events on slides and we want to share this question and its possible solutions with you. I am working with a small...
