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I want to make a system where whenever a PowerPoint presentation is opened in PowerPoint app, the file is automatically copied from the original location to another folder. I have no idea where to ...
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I have an Excel sheet with several fields. I want to generate a PPT with one slide per row (having selected multiple rows) in the Excel sheet. How can I do this using some AI tools (free versions only)...
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I have my presentation on the first slide while the room fills. I would like the Presentation timer to reset when moving to slide 2. I can't seem to remember to either, press reset or pause/start to ...
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VSTO is unable to capture nested groups within PowerPoint slides. For example, consider this structure: Group1: ├── Group2: │ ├── Rectangle1 │ ├── Rectangle2 │ └── Line (connecting ...
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I have succesfully implemented this from MS Excel, but making it work from PowerPoint has not been a success. I am making use of a proprietary screenshot tool which accepts the alt+PRTSC shortcut, but ...
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Powerpoint 365 VBA Set sld = Application.ActiveWindow.View.Slide Set Shp = sld.Shapes(2) If Shp.TextFrame2.HasText Then Txt = Replace(Shp.TextFrame2.TextRange.Text, " ", "+&...
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Short Summary: On the main slide (slide20), I want the user to click through all the examples - any order - (slides 21-24). I have navigation buttons on slide 20 that I want to stay hidden until the ...
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> ''' > import logging > import time > from pathlib import Path > from docling_core.types.doc import ImageRefMode, PictureItem, TableItem > ...
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I have a problem with calling PowerPoint's Presentation.Open method. It seems to me that the Untitled parameter to Presentation.Open has changed. When opening the same file twice (once with Untitled:=...
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As part of a customised VBA-based add-in, I've been trying to display the Icons task pane which idMSO is "IconInsertFromFile" (button type) but which doesn't work on macOS, although it runs ...
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I have tried a way but after generating pptx it is not opening may be some configuration xml are missing. This code converted pdf to pptx but that file is not open say some error "Sorry are cant ...
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I tried to use the below code to open a password-protected ppt, but I got error: TypeError: Open() got an unexpected keyword argument 'Password' Is it possible to use Win32Com to open a password-...
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we need to know if an opened presentation is edited by a user in PowerPoint. We try todo this by remembering the initial Last save time when the presentation is opened and compare it with the current ...
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I am trying to make a macro to update the page count of visible pages. I have a code like this: Sub SetVisiblePageNumers() Dim pageNumber As Integer Dim pp As String pageNumber = 1 ...
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I have an excel data, I want to generate a PPT with the contents in multiple slides dynamically adjusting based on the content size, rows per slides and column width. Sub ExportToPPT() Dim pptApp ...
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I'm trying to run a macro from an Excel book to automate a chart update in powerpoint. It is going to reseat the source range of a chart I have created. I am doing this to then generate the same chart ...
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I'm trying to write two routines, one that picks up a paragraphs bullet settings including (especially indenting) but am getting nowhere picking up the settings. I tried these two variations but I ...
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I want to set English US as default language for all shapes on my slides. It seems the object model for PPT has changed over the years because none of the >5 years old macros here 1, 2 work. I get ...
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This is an issue with Powerpoint VBA. I want to have some random phrases to show up in a powerpoint presentation. I want the phrases to show in a text box inside a slide in the presentation I have a ...
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I'm trying to use UIAutomationClient library in .NET to get the element under the mouse cursor using ElementFromPoint(). This works in general, but when I click any items on PowerPoint slides, I can ...
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The following code opens Animation Pane in Power Point Application. Application.CommandBars.FindControl(Id:=730, Type:=1).Execute I want to open Animation Pane if Animation Pane is not already open.
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I have a code to automate email. Please help how to attach powerpoint files to the messages. This is my code. It does not attach the ppt to the email. Thank you all. import smtplib, ssl from email....
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I found the following VBA code for PowerPoint which works and allows PowerPoint to reference an Excel file Private Sub test() Dim xlApp As Object Dim xlWorkBook As Object Set xlApp = CreateObject(&...
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I'm generating a PowerPoint file using Apache POI version 4.1.2. The file is created without any errors during execution, but when I try to open it in PowerPoint, I get the following error message: &...
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I am trying to write a VBA script to convert a selection in a PowerPoint presentation into a Hyperlink that references the relevant slide. The text has at the end of each line a page number which is ...
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Currently, I am trying to convert the default legacy styled .csproj file of VSOT power point addins into the SDK styled file, and I am getting mixed reviews in it. so if it is possible then explain ...
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I am writing MS Project code that edits a Powerpoint presentation, adding images captured from MS Project to Powerpoint. My MS Project automation allows the user to specify margin sizes (T,B,L and R) ...
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How to make some margins between cell and image in the Table of Power Point?
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I want to make a Table of 200 rows in PowerPoint Application. The following code throws this error: Run-time error 424: Object requried How to solve that error?
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in Powerpoint I can insert pictures as a «copy» or «linked» (to keep the size of a presentation small). If I insert a linked picture, I can read the path like this: Shape.LinkFormat.SourceFullName To ...
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My team and I are using LlamaIndex's LlamaParse to read in PowerPoint documents. We've noticed inconsistency issues when running the same user_prompt setup for multiple files in one run. We have a ...
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So i will be creating set of 10 slides for each scenarios, and say i may have around 30 scenarios. So i was trying to make this concurrent where the generation of data and creating slide should be ...
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I'm using the Clipboard API to copy styled HTML content with leading spaces into Microsoft PowerPoint, and I found that using a combination of   and mso-spacerun:yes works well — except for ...
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I'm using the Clipboard API to copy styled HTML content to the clipboard. When pasting into Microsoft PowerPoint, I want to retain leading spaces for formatting purposes. However, PowerPoint trims ...
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I have a PowerPoint presentation with various shapes containing text, where the text is black except for one shape, which has red font color. The font color of different shapes changes to red through ...
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I am writing PowerPoint VBA code that appears to not work initially until a macro is run or the VBA code window has been opened. I put a button on the first slide that runs a macro and that seems to ...
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I have a pipeline where I'll be needing to ingest PowerPoint (pptx) files using Python. These files will mostly have text, occasionally have tables, and won't always have the same format and/or design....
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We are implementing the Microsoft Purview Sensitivity Labels. For PowerPoint, we are not happy with how the default label is applied - the deck has multiple designs, some light, some dark so a single ...
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I have linked macro-enabled worksheet objects from excel to 25 different powerpoint slides in my powerpoint deck. Some slides have up to three linked objects and others have only one. For the slides ...
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I am trying to unlock a protected PPTX file, edit and save as. The script works if the file is not locked. How do I unlock a PPTX file using VBA 7.1? Sub UpdatePPT() Dim oPPApp As Object, oPPPrsn As ...
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I am trying to develop or apply a built-in function for the OnSelect property of a button to let the user press on it and automatically export a screenshot of the powerapps canvas app to a powerpoint ...
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I am trying to programmatically create a button in PowerPoint but I am having a problem with OnAction. (I manually created a button that links to the subroutine that programmatically creates the ...
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I am using java 21 and apache POI 5.4.0. The task is to generate a pptx file from a powerpoint file which works as template. The template has keys like {{ model.info.title }}. The template has graphs ...
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I am writing VBA to add an animation to an object. My goal is to make the added animation trigger on click of another specific shape Image of Trigger on Click object, Animated object, then Animation ...
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I am trying to convert HTML content into PowerPoint slides using the XHTMLtoPPTX library, but I am encountering this issue: Table properties such as colspan and rowspan are not being applied and ...
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We are currently developing a PowerPoint content add-in and have encountered an unusual behavior during presentation mode. When a slide containing the add-in is displayed for the first time, it ...
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I am writing a macro to delete selected slides, i.e. clicked on, in the thumbnails pane of the Normal View. There is always a selected slide even if none have been clicked on. If the macro is run, ...
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I have linked macro-enabled worksheet objects from excel to 25 different powerpoint slides in my powerpoint deck. Some slides have up to three linked objects and others have only one. For the slides ...
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I'm changing dynamically a picture in my presentation using OpenTBS. But, I'm not able to insert the picture in a specific X-Y position. Is this possible with OpenTBS? My code to change the picture is ...
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I created a table in ppt with 1px solid border applied to all. but If you check the resulting image using POI, you can see that the border is double-lined. how to fix it? for (XSLFSlide slide : ppt....
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