About Grunt

Grunt is a PowerPoint add-in for professionals who spend a lot of time building and updating slides.

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Why Grunt exists

The legacy support introduction frames the core problem clearly:

• PowerPoint slides are often built from static shapes and text boxes.
• Static slides are tedious to maintain when data changes.
• Small content updates can force large manual layout changes.

Grunt takes a different approach by separating content from design.

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Separate data from design

In Grunt:

• Data carries the values and structure.
• Rules decide how that data should look.
• Visual Grids combine the two into slide-ready output.

This lets you update the data without rebuilding the slide from scratch.

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Let the data drive the slide

Legacy support guidance describes rules as a powerful form of conditional formatting. That means you can:

• Apply formatting based on values
• Stack multiple behaviors on top of each other
• Reuse the same logic across many rows, columns, and objects

The result is faster updates and more consistent presentation output.

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Where to go next

Use Quick start to build your first Grunt object, then continue to Rules and Visual Grids.