InfoPath and PowerPoint 2003

[Nancy (PMM)]

We have a PowerPoint template used to collect information about projects.
Problem is that users don't fill out the template completely, some answers
are too long, some are too short, dollars are filled out as text, etc. We
know that we can create an InfoPath form that would help us with data
validation, to enforce mandatory fields, etc. However, is there a way to then
get the data collected in InfoPath into PowerPoint for communication to team
members? The InfoPath forms are stored in a form library on a WSS site if
that helps.

Any suggestions? Basically we want to go from InfoPath to a form library on
the WSS site to 1 PowerPoint presentation for every submission.

Thanks,
Nancy

 

[renee rieser]

Nancy,

What a creative use for Powerpoint! I think your best bet for getting
an answer though is probably by hitting the Powerpoint forums to find
out how or if anybody has had success with using XML and/or XSLT
transforms to import into Powerpoint.

OTOH, does it really have to be totally Powerpoint? Its easy to get
the info out of Infopath and into Word or Excel since these are Office
components that one more typically turns to when attempting to
aggregate data. Perhaps you could modify your Powerpoint template to
incorporate views from either an Excel file or Word doc?

Good Luck In Your Quest!