>Hi all
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>I have a client who is using Powerpoint to produce ticketing for their point Of sale displays in an electrical shop. I was wondering is there any way of linking the power point files with a database of stock records that I have, e.g. activex controls ect
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>Brian O Donovan

I just saw a PowerPoint Slide class in Tools->Options->Controls. I droped it on a form and the form ran.

You might also be alble to a Word COM. You can drive it with VFP and assemble graphics and tabluar lists. The bench is pretty deep on the UT of you can work it with word. Then again - figuring out how to drive PowerPoint from VFP would be pretty cool.

I have been "partying" with the WebBrowser Control (Make sure to read Rick Strahl's short and pointed advice on that control). With the Web Browser control you could [essentially] structure the PPT format in HTML and then feed it to the Web Browser Control.

Power Point offers an option to save the presentation as HTML - that could be used as a "guidance" of sorts.

What is Power Point doing for your client's operation?