Installing the PowerPoint add-in

Enables the KPImailer task pane inside desktop PowerPoint, so you can design templates and have them filled with live Qlik data.

Requirements

Designing templates needs the desktop PowerPoint app from a Microsoft 365 subscription, updated to Version 2504 (April 2025) or later, on the computer you design from.

One-time-purchase, volume-licensed, and LTSC editions can’t run the add-in - Office 2019, 2021, and 2024 are all unsupported for designing. They don’t include the PowerPoint capability the task pane needs (technically, PowerPointApi 1.8), which ships only in the Microsoft 365 subscription. To check yours, open PowerPoint and go to File → Account; the version is shown under About PowerPoint.

This applies only to designing templates. Delivered presentations reach every recipient no matter which PowerPoint edition - or none - they have, so recipients need nothing.

Steps

1. From Templates, select Set up PowerPoint add-in.

2. Read which case applies to you:

   • On the KPImailer server computer - nothing to do. Anyone who signs in to Windows on the machine where KPImailer is installed gets the add-in automatically the next time they log in.
   • On your own computer (using PowerPoint over the local network or VPN) - follow the one-time setup below.

3. Select Download setup script - it saves a PowerShell script to your Downloads folder.

4. Open Windows PowerShell and run it with the execution policy bypassed:

   powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "$HOME\Downloads\Enable-KPImailer-PowerPoint-Addin.ps1"

   Caution

   Don’t just right-click the script and choose Run with PowerShell - Windows silently blocks that for downloaded scripts. Run it from a PowerShell prompt with -ExecutionPolicy Bypass as shown above.

5. When Windows asks “You are about to install a certificate”, select Yes. This trusts the KPImailer site for your Windows account only - no administrator rights are needed, and nothing changes system-wide.

6. Fully close and reopen PowerPoint.

7. Open a template with Edit in PowerPoint, or add the pane from Insert → My Add-ins → KPImailer.

Opening the pane in PowerPoint

Unlike Excel, the KPImailer pane doesn’t appear on its own. Inside PowerPoint, open it from the KPImailer group on the ribbon (the Edit template button), or from Insert → My Add-ins → KPImailer.

Worked example

A report author who works from a laptop over VPN, separate from the KPImailer server, downloads the setup script, runs it with the execution-policy bypass, accepts the certificate prompt, and restarts PowerPoint. The next time they select Edit in PowerPoint on a template, PowerPoint opens with the deck and they bring up the KPImailer pane from the ribbon.

Tip

The Excel and PowerPoint add-ins are set up separately - running one doesn’t enable the other. If you design both kinds of template, run Set up Excel add-in and Set up PowerPoint add-in once each. Both scripts are also on Settings → Tools.