Importing a Powerpoint or Slides Presentation

Often companies have standard slide presentation formats and prefer to use those when presenting data. Scoop makes that extraordinarily simple by allowing you to import a PowerPoint slide deck (.pptx) into Scoop. Scoop will import the entire presentation, including master slides, layouts, backgrounds, images, diagrams, text and tables, with each PowerPoint slide becoming a Scoop frame. You can do this by selecting the "Canvas from Presentation" option when clicking on the New Canvas button on the Canvas Navigator screen.

When you bring in a slide presentation as a set of frames, they essentially become backgrounds for your frames. You can edit the text of the items directly in Scoop. You can move elements around. Moreover, you can layer Scoop visualizations and summaries directly on top of your slides, which will present with them. This allows you to create entirely live and interactive data stories using standard slide elements that might exist in your organization.

If you decide that you want to update your Scoop frames from updated slides you can do so. When you import a presentation into Scoop, a new Scoop canvas is created. Additionally a Google Slides presentation is also created with that same content. When you open the Manage Frames window, you will see several options to leverage this. First, next to each slide is a link to open Google slides to that particular slide. You can also hide/unhide that slide in the presentation. And lastly, you can select one or more slides for synchronization. When you select a slide for synchronization, Scoop will re-import that slide from Google Slides and update it with your latest edits, allowing you to make changes in Google Slides if you like.

When you import a slide presentation, Scoop will also import whatever color schemes are present in the presentation, allowing you to using them in your visualizations. It will also analyze the presentation and use an AI generated recommended color set to match as well. See AI Generated Color Themes for more information.