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Next we are going to add a data marker that holds the company logo to our slide. To place an image using a data marker into your presentation, the data marker must include the image modifier.

17. Add a text box to the upper left hand corner of the presentation. This will hold our company logo data marker.

28. Place the data marker %%=Company.Logo(image(2,4.25,1)) in the text box.

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Our next slide will contain an agenda for the rest of the presentation, including a list of team members.

19. Create a new content slide. The default content slide will consist of two text boxes: one for the title and a large one for the body of the text.

210. Give this slide the title 'Agenda'.

311. Add a third text box in the bottom right of the slide to hold our company logo.

412. Place the data marker %%=Company.Logo(image(2)) in this text box.
This time, our image modifier is only taking one parameter, the scaling mode. This means that the image will take on the dimensions of the text box containing the data marker and be scaled according to the chose mode. Therefore, the text box should be the desired size for the imported image.

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The body of our slide is going to contain a list of contents for the remainder of the presentation. It will also include a list of team members for the new employee, which will be imported using a data marker.

513. In the large text box, create a new list. This can be done from the Home tab under Paragraph.

614. Add three items to this list:

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Under the 'Your Team' bullet, we are going to import a list of team members for the new employee. This will require that we import multiple rows from our data source. To import multiple rows in PowerPointWriter, the data marker must be placed in a list entry or table row. see Importing Multiple Rows of Data for more information.

715. Create a new list under the 'Your Team' bullet.

816. Add the data marker %%=Team.TrainingItems as the first entry in the new list.
The entirety of the 'TrainingItems' column will be imported into this list.

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