Presentation for a webinar showing how to integrate PowerPoint and Airtable using DataPoint. See video here: https://youtu.be/xwJbs6TFgpI

1. Amazing Things
You can Do with
Airtable &
PowerPoint
PresentationPoint.com

2. What is Airtable?
Powerful, yet easy to use online database system

3. Benefits of
Airtable vs Excel
• Easy to create pull down menus
• Formatting of columns (phone,
url, formula, multiple choice, etc)
• Create views and filter data
• Easy to share online
• Online data collection (forms)
• Grid and Kanban views

4. Airtable has
Hundreds of
Templates

5. How Does Garland use Airtable @ PP?
TASK MANAGEMENT TIME BLOCKING CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
MANAGEMENT
TRADE SHOW PLANNING

6. I also use Airtable personally
Household
expense
tracking
Goal setting
Purchase
comparison
Travel
planning
Home
inventory
Moving
planning

7. Airtable Tour
Now let’s do a quick Airtable Tour

8. Airtable Has
a Mobile
App

9. Before Airtable
• To collect data online, you had to
create an online data entry form
on your website linking to a web
database like MySQL
• Creating the online database and
data entry form was often a
technical undertaking requiring a
programmer

10. Data
Collection –
Survey Form Airtable has built-in ability
to create input forms from
the tables you’ve created
and then share them

11. Use Collection Forms
for Live Audience Poll
• Use Airtable online survey form
• Send Airtable link to audience by url or
QR code
• Use DataPoint to show Airtable survey
results live on screen in PowerPoint

12. How do I connect
Airtable to
PowerPoint?
• Install DataPoint
• Then connect to the Airtable
using the JSON feed for the
table plus API from Airtable
• Then create a query to pull
up the data from Airtable

13. Find Airtable API
Key
• https://airtable.com/account

14. Locate
API/JSON Feed
• Locate API for base you
want to show data for -
https://airtable.com/api

15. Your JSON URL
Don’t forget to add your API
Key
Create custom queries using
curl or Javascript

16. Use DataPoint
Query Advanced
Tools
• Sort
• Filter
• Column selection

17. Airtable Survey Example

18. Airtable Survey – Using DP Tools
Buck Rogers $35,000 15 True
Darth Vader $55,000 25 True True
Jean-Luc Picard $280,000 75 True True
ET $4,000 1 True
Luke Skywalker $20,000 10 True
Table after Query Adjustments
• Column selection/order (DP)
• Manual column headers (ppt)
• Currency formatting (DP)
Name Spend # of Trips In-Country International

19. Sales Reporting
Product Sales
Mystery Widget $1,750,000
Fidget Widget $1,250,000
Floating Widget $875,962
Cleaning Widget $2,569,870

20. Task Status
Task Priority Status
Decide on product
name
Medium Todo
Copywriting for site Medium Submitted for approval
Website design High Blocked - awaiting help
Logo Design High Done
Product photos finished Low In progress

21. Text Boxes instead of Tables
Buck Rogers
Client
Darth Vader
Jean-Luc Picard
ET
Luke Skywalker
$35,000
$55,000
$280,000
$4,000
$20,000

22. PowerPoint Charts from Airtable Data
1750000
1250000
875962
2569870
Mystery Widget Fidget Widget Floating Widget Cleaning Widget

23. Website embed

24. Some Use
Cases
Online polling
Online surveys
Project management
Financial/Sales reporting
Logistics
KPI Dashboards

25. Remember
You Can
Combine
Data
Pull data from
Excel
Accounting
software
Salesforce
or other
CRMs
Online
databases
Industrial
equipment
Airtable
DataPoint lets you combine data
from multiple sources into a single,
unified presentation or report

26. We LOVE
Questions!

27. Share YOUR
PresentationPoint Story
• Use our software? – tell us how!
• Our readers love real-life case studies
• Email garland@presentationpoint.com

28. This
recording will
be on our
YouTube
Channel
youtube.com/c/PresentationPointChannel

29. Find Out More at
PresentationPoint.com