Bulk Creator FAQ & fixes

Can I sell what I create with this?

Yes. Anything you generate with Bulk Creator can be sold in your own products.

Can I fill in pictures too?

Yes. You can place pictures or objects into the data table’s cells, and Bulk Creator automatically detects the boundaries of the table cell and copies the object or image into the placeholder. See Getting started for the steps.

Where is the billing policy?

See refunds and billing for the current policy.

Images used to insert in filename order. Now they insert randomly. Why?

Bulk Creator doesn’t insert images by filename order. It follows the on-slide object order, also called the z-order or stacking order, of the shapes on your template slide. To fix the order, reorder the objects on the template slide to match the order you want the images inserted in.

Can my virtual assistant use my Bulk Creator license for a client project?

Each individual user needs their own license. The same person can use their license on multiple computers, but a license can’t be shared across multiple people.

PowerPoint says Bulk Creator’s certificate is out of date. How do I fix it without enabling all macros?

Download the latest signed version from the download page and Unblock the new file. Don’t lower your macro security settings as a workaround. See Install Bulk Creator for the Unblock step.

Bulk Creator stops working or crashes partway through generating a large set of slides

This is usually PowerPoint running out of memory while copying large embedded images. To fix it:

• Update to the latest .ppam version and confirm the version number in Preferences.
• Reduce your image file sizes.
• Avoid duplicate images in the same cell.
• Remove extraneous shapes or images from the template slide.

In one diagnosed case, the memory error traced back to an object nested inside a PowerPoint Group. Ungrouping it fixed the crash.

Placeholders stop filling in partway through, or don’t populate when I reopen the file

This is often caused by an empty data table. Check that the table has rows beyond the header and populate any that are missing. If the table has data and it still stalls, this may be a genuine bug that needs a sample file to reproduce.

Do animations carry over to generated slides?

Text animations do transfer, since Bulk Creator edits existing text shapes in place. Picture animations (like Fly In) currently don’t transfer, because image placeholders are replaced with newly pasted shapes rather than edited in place.

My placeholder says “text” when it should be an image type, and won’t convert on Generate

Check for stray text or spaces in the table’s data column, and confirm the source image fits fully within the cell bounds. Then confirm the placeholder’s type is switched to Object (image) rather than text. The manual placeholder syntax ((pic)) works as a fallback if the automatic conversion still won’t take.

Generated text stays small even though I want a bigger font in the output

There’s no built-in fix for this. Some PowerPoint versions don’t reset text-box autofit properly after generation. You may need to manually resize or reset the text box afterward.

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