Dynamics capabilities for PowerPoint

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This article is a high-level overview of the dynamic capabilities available for PowerPoint presentations. This includes dynamics for presentations, slides, and slide elements. Dynamic presentations for PowerPoint 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.

Dynamic text insertion

• Insertion of text from data sources/resources 
• Insertion of text from User profile info/selection
• Insertion of text from response form
• Insertion of text from external systems
• Translations 
• Repeating rows and content blocks

Dynamic image insertion

• Insertion of image

Slide(s) insertion

• Manually insert dynamic slide(s) from the Slides Library
• Dynamically insert static or dynamic slides from the Slides Library into a Presentation (Additional details: How to dynamically insert slides from the Library in a presentation?)

Slide element(s)insertion

• Manually insert dynamic slide element(s) from the Slides elements Library

Dynamic presentation configurations

• Configure proofing language
• Set document name
• Set document properties
• Set custom document properties
• Set custom XML values
• Update document with Document Content Updater
• Apply color theme 

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