Spreadsheet to presentation process

To create a template for your podcast slides, you can follow these steps using either PowerPoint, Excel, or Google Slides and Sheets:

Using PowerPoint: 1. Open PowerPoint and create a new presentation. 2. Design the first slide with the three sections, icons, titles, taglines, and descriptions. 3. Save this slide as a template by going to "File" > "Save As" and choose "PowerPoint Template (*.potx)" as the file type.

Using Excel and PowerPoint Together:

1. Create a new Excel sheet with columns for each section's title, tagline, description, and icon reference.
2. Design the first row with the data for the three sections.
3. Save this Excel sheet.
4. In PowerPoint, go to "Insert" > "Object" > "Create from File" and select your Excel sheet. This will link the data to your presentation.

Using Google Slides and Google Sheets:

1. Open Google Sheets and create a new spreadsheet with columns for section title, tagline, description, and icon reference.
2. Enter the data for the three sections.
3. In Google Slides, go to "Slide" > "Edit Master" > "Slide Master."
4. Design your master slide with placeholders for the data.
5. Link your Google Sheet data to your slides by going to "Insert" > "Sheets" and selecting the linked Google Sheet.

Google Sheets:

1. Create a New Spreadsheet:

2. Open Google Sheets and create a new spreadsheet.

3. Add Columns:

4. Add the following columns to your spreadsheet:

   • Rank
   • ID (icon name)
   • Title
   • Tagline
   • Description
   • Icon Name

5. Prepopulate Rank:

6. Fill the Rank column with numbers from 1 to 100, as these will be the rankings for your podcast topics.

7. Generate Default Icon Names:

8. In the ID column, you can use a formula like =TEXT(B2,"000") to