How do I get the last paragraph in a TextRange?

[David Thielen]

Hi;

There does not appear to be any call to get the number of paragraphs
in a PPT TextRange. How can I get this?

This may be a C# issue but the only TextRange.Paragraphs method is one
that you pass a (start, length) to get back a range. There is no way
to get a count.

Am I missing something?

thanks - dave

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[\Ji Zhou [MSFT]\]

Hello Dave,

Setting both of the start and length to -1 will get all of the paragraphs
returned from the Paragraphs() method. So we can get the count from its
count property. The codes will look like,

textRange =
Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActivePresentation.Slides[1].Shapes[1].TextFra
me.TextRange;
int count = textRange.Paragraphs(-1,-1).Count;
TextRange lastParagraph = textRange.Paragraphs(count,1);

I test the above codes and it works on my side. Please let me know if you
need any future help on this. Have a nice day!

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[Cindy M.]

Hi David,

There does not appear to be any call to get the number of paragraphs
in a PPT TextRange. How can I get this?

This may be a C# issue but the only TextRange.Paragraphs method is one
that you pass a (start, length) to get back a range. There is no way
to get a count.

Mmmm. There is a Count property in VBA:

ActivePresentation.Slides(2).Shapes
(1).TextFrame.TextRange.Paragraphs.Count

But checking in C#, yes, I see what you mention. It appears that the PIA
is not picking up the PowerPoint definition of the internal Office
object. This looks like the basic Range method one sees in Word, and
which I suspect underlies all other objects that deal with text.

Best I can see is to check for the number of occurrences of the ASCII
character 13 (carriage return). That number, plus 1, would give you the
number of paragraphs. Unfortunately, a check of the string returned by
TextFrame.TextRange.Text doesn't match either "/r" or "/n" and I don't
know how to check the character codes of each individual member of a
string. (But I'd sure like to know as it would be useful for general
trouble shooting).

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
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[Cindy M.]

Hi Ji / David

Setting both of the start and length to -1 will get all of the paragraphs
returned from the Paragraphs() method.

This works, EXCEPT if I try it in a "Click to add Title" placeholder. That
appears to use a different character when ENTER is pressed, so the "new
lines" aren't being recognized as paragraphs. In a MessageBox, this is
showing up as a "box".

If I use the VBA Immediate Window to query the TextRange.Text I get an odd
symbol which the ASC function informs me is ANSI 11. In Word, this would be
the equivalent of pressing Shift+Enter to create a new line and indeed, this
is not considered a new paragraph.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
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[David Thielen]

thank you

Hello Dave,

Setting both of the start and length to -1 will get all of the paragraphs
returned from the Paragraphs() method. So we can get the count from its
count property. The codes will look like,

textRange =
Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActivePresentation.Slides[1].Shapes[1].TextFra
me.TextRange;
int count = textRange.Paragraphs(-1,-1).Count;
TextRange lastParagraph = textRange.Paragraphs(count,1);

I test the above codes and it works on my side. Please let me know if you
need any future help on this. Have a nice day!

Best regards,
Ji Zhou ([email protected], remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

Delighting our customers is our #1 priority. We welcome your comments and
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