On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 14:30, Victor Pendleton wrote: > How did you plan on using the information pulled from the database? If you > are currently using MS Query or a DSN you can modify the current connection > information to point to your MySQL database. > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat > To: mysql > Sent: 8/27/04 2:21 PM > Subject: powerpoint and mysql > > Greetings, > I'm new to the list. > I was wondering if it is possible to user mysql and powerpoint? I have > a small database of simple text entries that I want to create whereby I > can pull a title up and have the rest of the slide dynamically > generated. The reason for this is that the presentation data will > change weekly but over time the data will be used over and over - so I > don't want to lose it or have to re-enter it. Any ideas? > thanks, > Doug That is part of the equation. I know that in ppt I can add "objects" but I don't see anywhere for any kind of datasource. I didn't know if anyone was working on a possible plugin or maybe knew of a way to make it work. Here's what I am doing. I handle all of the music at my church. Every week we use a projector and a laptop to put the words to the songs on a screen. I am taking the task of putting the songs on the laptop and realized that for the past two years they were creating new presentations for each week. I think this is a waste of time. At a bare minimum I am going to dump all of the songs into some sort of text document in a single directory - named by the title of the song. I use mysql (I'm not a programmer) on some very simple php/mysql stuff at work and am familiar with inputting data and then retrieving it again. If I could have a db with just two columns (title, song) I and a way to actually "import" this data to ppt I could make it work. In a perfect world I would create a much larger db with song keys, dates of last play, etc. I hope this clears my request up. As for "MS Query" or "DSN", I don't use MS Query (not sure what it is) and I have no clue what DSN is either. Sorry. Thanks for the input. Doug
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