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I'm not personally that ass kickin' with Excel, but I find it hard to believe that you can't find those sort of functions there or in a combination with Powerpoint.
You need to verify with a knowledgeable person that what you want to do, or something with a desired similar effect, is possible with Excel.
A simplified idea is to create an area that you'll use for the slide bar, and have it shown at all pages. The various points on the slides, however, would simply link to another page. Alas - giving the illusion of dynamism.
I would be careful not to make too many interpage links if this is solely for a presentation. Stay focused on functionality, as you already seem.
As for the rest, this can without doubt be done in C++, . NET, Visual Basic, Ruby, Python, etc. Those are programming languages, more or less high level, meaning that you'd write the whole thing from scratch. Although you could use libraries to access files and display capabilities, it is probably not worth the hastle unless you want this industrialized. Alternatively, if you're already good at it, and geeky or perfectionist. Even then it's doubtful.
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