ShufflePoint Studio for PowerPoint - Catalog

The panel on the left contains your “Catalog”, which is the set of PowerPoint® presentations you have uploaded. These presentations serve as the source of slides you will use to build your presentations.

Uploading Presentations

To upload a PowerPoint presentation, click on the button at the top of the panel. New uploads will have the uploading icon and will be labeled with the file name. After the upload is processed, the icon will change to and the label will change to the presentation's title. If an upload was not processed properly, the icon will change to .

Check that you have appropriate titles set in presentations before uploading them. The presentation title is used as the label in the “My Catalog” tree. To set the title, open the file in PowerPoint, and under the File menu open Properties.

Selecting a Presentation

To select a presentation, click on the corresponding item in the “My Catalog” tree. After a moment, you will see the presentation's slides displayed in the Carousel panel.

Searching for Slides

Click on the button to open the search form. Type in one or more words to search for and press Enter or click Go. The Carousel panel will display slides that contain the search word(s) in the slide's content or in the slide's notes. Note that the search text must be at least 3 characters.

The default search mode is “Any” which means that slides containing any of the search words will be returned. If you change the search mode to “All”, then only slides containing all of the search words will be returned. If you change the search mode to “Exact Phrase” then only slides containing the exact search phrase will be returned.

Downloading Presentations

To download a presentation from the catalog to your computer, click on the corresponding item in the “My Catalog” tree to select it, and then click the Download Presentation button at the bottom of the panel. You will then be prompted for a save location.

Deleting Presentations

To delete a presentation from the catalog, click on the corresponding item in the “My Catalog” tree to select it, and then click the Delete Presentation button at the bottom of the panel.

Catalog Maintenance

If you wish to add/remove/update slides in a presentation within your “Catalog”, then you should download the presentation, make your changes, and upload it back to your “Catalog”. Any presentations you have created that reference changed slides will reflect these changes the next time they are generated. See Presentation for more information on generating presentations.

Shrink/Expand

If you wish to minimize the space taken up by this panel, then click the Shrink button at the top-right of this panel. To return the panel to its normal size, click the Expand button, which will appear after the panel has been minimized.