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I've got a ton of data. Tests take forever!
Sometimes it takes a few tries to get your template PowerPoint and data files set up right for the merge you want to do. With large data files, each test can take quite a while.
Merge's job is to avoid tedium, not add to it, so of course there's an easy way around this little problem: we call it Test Mode.
- Hold down the SHIFT key when you click either of the Merge buttons
- Merge will ask you how many records you'd like it to process
- Tell it how many you want to try and click OK
- Merge will create only that many slides (in Slides mode) or presentations (in Presentations mode). In other words, if you say ten, it will process only the first ten data records.
Note: If you ask for more records than you actually have, Merge will simply process all of your data. No worries.
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