Is there a way to automate the generation of PowerPoint slides ?

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Published on 2010-01-26T17:26:42Z Indexed on 2010/04/18 11:23 UTC
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I have a bunch of data in a database and I want to generate some tables in PowerPoint. I had started doing this manually but I thought there might be a way I can simply write some code to take my data from the database and output it onto a PowerPoint slide.

Any advice here?

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