Multiple text boxes (125) over 25 slides each linked to excel cell

Hi all,
I am reasonably excel proficient BUT am totally stumped at how to do this short of learning VB!

I teach kids 25 lessons a week and each lesson has up to 5 learning points that i want to display on my projector screen.

I really want to have a 25 slide powerpoint in which each slide has the learning points from my excel planning sheet where i type in content of lesson, equipment needed and LEARNING POINTS.

Any ideas? - i've considered learning C++ or C# as i'm that desperate

Please give a stressed teacher a hand!

Cheers

James

hi chris, thanks for replying

so, I've got a file that has (amongst other items) a sheet with

Classname Learning Item 1 Learning Item 2 ... Learning Item 5
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
...
Lesson 25

Each Learning Item will have a text string like "determine the specific heat capacity of a brass block"

My perfect powerpoint will have a separate slide for each of the 25 lessons on which will be displayed 5 text boxes containing data from each of the 5 learning items from that Lesson's row!

Any ideas

thanks for thinking!

James

hi, thanks for replying

yes the learning items change weekly hence the auto update. I thought it looked like VBA would be needed!

I know that word lets you paste special - link (rtf) a cell entry but powerpoint only allows you to link an unformattable entry from excel

thanks for the help anyway!