Your data
It reads the structure, not just the text.
Getting numbers out of a real business file is the hard part, and it is where most tools quietly give up and hand you a wall of text. Slidr does the unglamorous work.
What the spreadsheet reader actually handles
Every table on a sheet
Not just the first one. Tables stacked down a sheet with blank rows between them are found individually, so a summary block at the bottom of a long export isn’t lost.
Two-row and merged headers
A sparse group row above the real header is detected and folded in, so you get 2024 Rev rather than a column called Unnamed: 3.
Pivots and cross-tabs
A pivot’s blank top-left corner is reclaimed. A cross-tab whose columns are all periods is transposed, so time lands on the x-axis of a line chart instead of in the legend.
Very large sheets
Streamed under a cell budget with a rolling tail — a 50,000-row export stays usable, and anything skipped is reported rather than silently dropped.
Borderless PDF tables
Reconstructed from where words sit on the page, including bilingual right-to-left/left-to-right documents. They become real tables and charts, not flattened paragraphs.
Scanned pages
Pages with no text layer are rasterised and read by vision OCR, then rejoin the normal pipeline. A scan of a report is still a source you can cite.
Live blocks
A figure on a slide remembers where it came from.
Drag a table, a series or a KPI out of the palette and it’s copied onto the slide as a live block — with a reference back to the file, sheet and range it came from. The copy is the point: your deck can never break because someone edited the spreadsheet.
Re-upload a newer version and affected blocks show a staleness badge. Refresh pulls the new numbers in while keeping the position, size, styling and chart type you chose.
Rendered liveOps & finance monthly — a waterfall drawn by our own chart engine, which is also what makes it exportable as a native PowerPoint chart.
Tables
Dense material, still readable.
Board packs and risk registers are mostly tables, and most deck tools treat a table as an afterthought. Ours are a first-class block with theme-driven styling — and they export as real PowerPoint tables you can edit in place.
What export actually produces →