PPT question

[David Thielen]

I haven't figured out a way to determine what cell the cursor is
currently in, or better yet the location of a TextRange object within
a table.

So given a Selection object, I can ask for the TextRange, but when I
ask for its parent ( which should be a TextFrame, whose parent should
be a Shape, whose parent should be a Cell) it is null.

If I ask for a ShapeRange from the Selection, I get the shape that the
table is in.



Is there a way to determine what cell I am given a selection object.
Or better yet, is there a way to determine my position in the table
given a TextRange object, assuming its inside a cell ?



david@[email protected]
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[Ji Zhou [MSFT]]

Hello Dave,

Thanks for using Microsoft Newsgroup Support Service, this is Ji Zhou
[MSFT] and I will be working on this issue with you.

Based on my understanding of the issue, we are now trying to get the cell
where our mouse cursor is currently in. Is my understanding right? If not,
please let me know. I find that Cell.Selected is the only property that
tells the information in the PowerPoint object model. Consequently, I think
we can use the following codes to achieve what we want:

PowerPoint.Selection selection = applicationObject.ActiveWindow.Selection;
PowerPoint.Table activetable = selection.ShapeRange.Table;
for (int i = 1; i <= activetable.Rows.Count; i++)
{
for (int j = 1; j <= activetable.Columns.Count; j++)
{
if (activetable.Cell(i, j).Selected)
{
Debug.Print("The current selection is in " +
selection.ShapeRange.Name + " Cell(" + i.ToString() + ", " + j.ToString() +
")");
}
}
}

The above code firstly gets the selection object from the ActiveWindow.
After that, it gets the table from the selection.ShapeRange.Table, and
iterates through all cells in the table to see whose Selected property
returns true. The selected cell is we are looking for.

Please let me know whether this works for you or not. And if you have any
other concerns, please feel free to contact me. I will do my best to help.


Best regards,
Ji Zhou ([email protected], remove 'online.')
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