What are Snapshot Presentations?

A DataPoint-enabled presentation is a normal PowerPoint presentation that is linked to data sources via the DataPoint add-on. First you set up your data connections and then you start linking these data connections to text boxes, charts, images and tables.

The advantage of using DataPoint is that when you open the presentation, it refreshes its linked content automatically. Even more, when you run the slideshow, it updates its data during the show, all in real-time.

But sometimes you want to create snapshot presentation for archiving or reporting. A snapshot presentation is like a snapshot of your data and then projected in your presentation. You can save the snapshot presentation or distribute it to others, but once that a DataPoint-enabled presentation, became a snapshot presentation, its dynamic content is not updated anymore. It became completely static.