DataPoint
Problem: Truncated Texts of Excel Connections
Sometimes longer texts coming from an Excel connection, are truncated in length. Not all text is visible in PowerPoint. This happens when the Excel drivers makes an incorrect conclusion by scanning the first 8 data rows to determine its data type. ...
How to disable the DataPoint menu
Sometimes you want to disable the functionality of the DataPoint menu. You still want to use the DataPoint functionality of a presentation but on a given computer you want to use this presentation but prevent that people are going to modify the ...
Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 provider not registered
When you make a connection to a Microsoft Access database with DataPoint you might encounter this error: This is caused because you have no Microsoft Access application of your Microsoft Office installed and its drivers. You can easily add Microsoft ...
My Excel linked data is not refreshed or is giving errors.
Make sure that your Excel sheet is in shared mode to allow access to multiple persons. You are working on the document and DataPoint too. Open your Excel file and click Tools > Share Workbook (Excel 2000-2002-2003) or click Review > Share workbook ...
My PowerPoint slide show is always ending with a black screen.
When using the full Microsoft PowerPoint: Start PowerPoint and click File > Options > Advanced. There you will find an option called 'End with black slide'. Uncheck this option and click OK to close. When using the free Microsoft PowerPoint: Try to ...