Dynamic capabilities in PowerPoint

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This article is a high-level overview of the different dynamic capabilities available in PowerPoint. This includes dynamics for Presentations and Slides Libraries. Dynamic presentations (for Presentations and Slides Libraries) are built in the Master View and/or the Normal View in Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows:

Master view: dynamics will need to be created on shapes in the Master view and will not be editable by the end-user after the creation of the presentation.
Normal view: dynamics will need to be created on shapes in the Normal view and will be editable by the end-user after the creation of the presentation.

When building Dynamics in PowerPoint, we recommend not to add text in the shape that will be used with Dynamics - this can result in formatting conflicts upon generation if the text formatting and the shape formatting are different.

Prerequisites

Templafy Hive
Dynamics module enabled
Dynamics version 2.0
VSTO add-in only

Dynamic text insertion

Insertion of text from Templafy data sources/resources
Insertion of text from User profile info/selection
Insertion of text from forms
Show, hide or delete text
Translations
Repeating rows and content blocks

Dynamic image insertion

Insertion of image
Show, hide or delete image

Dynamic slide insertion

Insertion of slide(s)

Dynamic presentation configurations

Configure proofing language
Setting Custom Document Property
Setting Document Properties
Setting Custom XML value
Update document with Document Content Updater
Dynamically compile presentations from slides & slide collections
Applying color theme

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