Getting started with Bulk Creator

Here’s how to produce your first batch of generated slides. If you haven’t installed Bulk Creator yet, see Install Bulk Creator first.

1. Build a template slide from any existing PowerPoint design, and mark the text fields or images you want to “fill in” per row using Insert Placeholders on the Bulk Create ribbon.
2. Click Add Data Table to build a data table on the slide, with one column per placeholder and one row for each slide you want generated.
3. Fill in the table with the text, images, or shapes for each row.
4. Click Generate. Bulk Creator creates one new slide for every row in the data table.

That’s the core loop: mark, fill, generate. More advanced generation options are available from the Bulk Create ribbon once you’re comfortable with the basics.

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Fill in pictures, not just text

You can place pictures or objects into data-table cells, not just text. Bulk Creator detects the boundaries of the table cell and copies the object or image into the matching placeholder position. Make sure the placeholder’s type is set to Object (image) rather than text. If the automatic conversion doesn’t pick this up, use the manual placeholder syntax ((pic)) as a fallback.

Put multiple records on one slide

To fit more than one record onto a single slide, such as four certificates on one page, use placeholder tag suffixes to mark successive records: <<c>>, <<c.2>>, and so on. Each suffix pulls in the next row of data onto the same slide instead of starting a new one.