I am trying to have a series of powerpoint slides that contain graphs w/ data linked to an Oracle Database. I have been tinkering with using linked excel objects in ppt slides, which works well, however, then the problem becomes updating all of the excel files with the data...I was thinking I could probably do this using SQL server analysis services, and create some sort of routine that updates all of the excel files (which are embedded in the ppt slides). This seems like a very roundabout method; Does anyone have any suggestions on a more efficient method?