http://www.pptools.com/merge/ PPTools Merge - What's new? http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00002.htm http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00002.htm Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:11:49 EST Merge can now merge hyperlinks and add text from UNICODE files into placholders, enabling you to merge text with non-roman character sets. http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00002.htm http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00002.htm Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:50:46 EST Merge now tests fieldnames in your data files for proper formatting and more. http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00002.htm http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00002.htm Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:48:37 EST 24 Jan 2009 release of PPTools Merge: Merge now replaces invalid characters in @filename fields with dashes Made numerous updates to make Merge work more smoothly in PPT 2007 and with Excel 2007 files Fixed several "side-effect" bugs inadvertently created by changes in previous version Previously Merge documentation simply suggested that each data field and merge field be made 'unique' by adding colons or other unusual characters to the beginning and end of the fieldname. Failure to use proper data fieldnames has been the single biggest cause of tech support issues, so now Merge requires all fieldnames to be properly formatted. http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00039.htm http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00039.htm Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:07:30 EST A bug in PowerPoint 2007, all releases/service packs to date, prevents Merge from seeing merge fields in table cells. On this page we provide two easy workarounds that allow you to merge data into tables. Or at least make it look that way. http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00002.htm http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00002.htm Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:05:08 EST Merge hyperlinks feature now works in Presentations mode as well as Slides mode. http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00002.htm http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00002.htm Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:42:37 EST We've fixed a few problems with merging hyperlinks and made Merge much less fussy about the way data field names are formatted in your data file. In Presentations mode. Merge now displays the number of the slide it's working on as well as the presentation/record number. This gives you a better idea of how far along it's gotten in the merge and what slides in your template take the longest to merge. http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00002.htm http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00002.htm Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:00:54 EST The 24 Feb 2009 release of Merge fixes a problem that caused inserted text to be doublespaced under some circumstances. This only happened in PowerPoint 2007. http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00039.htm http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00039.htm Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:36:13 EST Good news: Merge now works with PowerPoint 2007 tables. Once again, we conquer MS Bugs. Yes!!! http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00002.htm http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00002.htm Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:38:11 EST We worked our way around a bug in PowerPoint 2007 that previously kept Merge from merging data into tables. Merge now WORKS with PowerPoint 2007 tables. http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00002.htm http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00002.htm Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:50:35 EST Merge now imports Excel data differently (directly instead of via Excel export to tab delimited files). This means that it now directly supports text in non-roman character sets (Japanese, Chinese, etc). No more need to merge the text from Unicode files. Merge now allows you to arrange your data by rows (as before) or by columns. This can make it much simpler to maintain large, complex data sheets. http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00041.htm http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00041.htm Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:10:44 EST New, improved version of PPTools Merge now available (and FREE). http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00002.htm http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00002.htm Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:45:14 EST Merge now tests for valid output file name and for write privileges in the output folder before it allows merge to continue. http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00003.htm http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00003.htm Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:07:07 EST PPTMerge merges a PowerPoint template slide or presentation with data from your Excel or Text files to produce customized individual slides or complete presentations -- quickly and automatically. Think of it as Mailmerge for PowerPoint. http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00002.htm http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00002.htm Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:53:20 EST Test mode now has From and To options; you can now merge any section of records you like from your data file. There's now a ? button next to the Merge button. Merge disables the Merge button until you've provided all the information it needs to do the merge, but sometimes it's not obvious what's missing. Click the ? button to learn why the Merge button is disabled. Merge now includes a full Help file. Click the ? button on the Merge toolbar then click the "Merge Help" link in the upper right area of the resulting dialog box. http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00002.htm http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00002.htm Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:46:10 EST 12 February, 2010 Fixed a bug that permitted clicking the Merge button in Slides mode when only path (no filename), was supplied in step 4. http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00002.htm http://www.pptools.com/merge/FAQ00002.htm Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:48:55 EST Previously Merge would sometimes accept improperly formatted fieldnames; if, for example, there was a fieldname like C or another single letter, Merge would replace every instance of C on each slide with whatever was in that column, even if it was blank. This led to some rather odd results at times. The fix has the happy side effect of speeding up merges considerably.