How do I rename a slide in VBA? Need help on a sample scenario: I have a slide and have a command button on it. When clicked, it should pop up a window/ image and when clicked again should dispose the window. We can do it. When copied into another deck, I cannot use the default slide name from deck 1. how can we make a slide with VBA ...
I use something like this to get the text from a shape inside PowerPoint: s = ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.Shapes("rec1").TextFrame.TextRange.Text However, if the text has bold, underlined, resized (etc) text within the shape (meaning only certain words or phrases inside the shape), the .Text property converts it all to plain tex...
Does anyone know of a way to open an external file from Flash in ActionScript 3 without the request first going through the browser. Specifically, I want to open a PowerPoint presentation directly with PowerPoint. I've tried: var url:String = "MyContent/My presentation.pptx"; var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url); navigateToURL...
Folks, An existing system that was based on VBA was installed on a machine that has Office 2007 and it didn't work, the issues I faced are : A PowerPoint Add-in (.PPA) is no longer able to create the custom buttons in the shortcut menu, did Office 2007 change the commandbar names ? The MSI (written in Wix) didn't install the files in ...
I am trying to identify the right tool, language, software package, or other for the automated development of presentations, where the presentation is user interactive. The presentation will consist of images with titles and some descriptive text. Most of the time there will be 35–70 images. I would like to show each image on a separate...
While it is possible to generate PowerPoint presentations automatically using Office Automation, this is not recommended for use on a server. How can you go about generating a PowerPoint presentation without using Office Automation? ...
I would like to show some C# source code in a PowerPoint presentation. But how can I copy the code including the syntax highlighting onto the slides? I could make screenshots, but that has some drawbacks (ugly, font size, unmaintainable). Do you have some ideas? ...
I've automated creating powerpoint slides then inserting images, text boxes, and more. I've also been able to insert charts. Where I need some help is in how I might be able to bind data from a sql dataset to a MS Office chart object. ...
Hi, I was just trying to do some coding on highlighting a portion of text in PowerPoint so that I could insert a hyperlink to it. I could achieve it without any difficulty in Powerpoint 2003 and to my surprise, it did not work in PowerPoint 2007... The code that I used is as follows : ((PowerPoint.Application)applicationObject).ActiveWi...
I'm exporting PowerPoint presentations using PowerShell. This works fine with the Office XPS/PDF exporter plugin. However, only the complete slide, without animations, are exported. When exporting a presentation as a web page, the presentation can be run step-by-step (e.g. revealing bullet points one by one) if you check the "Show slide...
Hey guys! I am wondering if there is anyone out there that can help me with this... I have an Access db that I use to track metrics where I work and "number crunch" for data that I use to build ppt presentations. I have to usually do about 40 ppt's per month, and they are 98% charts. Right now, I run queries one at a time (using SQL st...
Hi, I'm building a pet project which needs to convert pdf and ppt files to flash swf files on the server side. This should look similar to what Scribd, Docstoc or Slideshare these websites do. But after some googling, I couldn't find any open source tools or libraries to do this except the OpenOffice wrapper. So I'm wondering how those ...
I have a PowerPoint presentation w/ an embedded Excel Workbook, name: ThisWorkbook I need to export ThisWorkbook into an Excel File. Thank you ...
I'm currently using a combination of OpenOffice macros and a pdf2text program to extract text and would like to find an easier, more efficient way getting the text out of a PowerPoint file. I've tried using the Apache POI library and have not had much luck, encountered numerous exceptions within the library when trying to process the f...
Yesterday I was trying to batch convert a group of PPTs into PDFs for a friend, and I decided to have a look at PowerShell, since it's been sitting on my HD for a while. Here's the code I've come up with. $p = new-object -comobject powerpoint.application # I actually don't know why I have to set the window to visible, # but it doesn'...
Hey guys! I always get great answers here, so here is another question (this one may be simple, but I don't know if/how...). If I embed a PowerPoint Presentation within an Excel Worksheet, then, within the ppt, set up chart objects on each slide, can I go into the data table for the chart object, and have it refer back to the excel spre...
I am trying to use VBA to insert some text into a PowerPoint TextRange, I use something like this: ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.Shapes("rec1").TextFrame.TextRange.Text = "Hi" However, I can't figure out how to apply bold, italic and underline programatically (I don't see a .RichText property or something similar). What I have is...
Hi, I want to extract data from PowerPoint slides and then paste them into Excel workbook, where each slide in PowerPoint corresponds to a sheet in Excel workbook and vice-versa (from Excel to PowerPoint). How do I do this? I extracted the data PowerPoint but now how do I make it send to data to Excel? What options/possibilities do I ha...
Hey I'm automating PowerPoint and Excel from a C# WinForms application; what I do is read slides from PowerPoint and save them in Excel and then quit both apps. Excel quits successfully but PowerPoints doesn't quits. The problem is when I convert first time it doesnt quits, but when I convert again it does. Here is my code try { Po...
Hello... i've been dealing with this problem for quite a while: Our company develops addins for word/excel/ppt (both for 2003 and 2007 versions) One of the options our addins offer is to drag a table from the addin into the application. This is implemented in 3 different ways: Excel --> we create a tab delimeted string and drag-drop...