"reset" a placeholder

[ChrisHarrington]

In the PowerPoint app, Clicking a placeholder and then hitting the delete
key will reset the placeholder to the "click here to edit ..." message. I am
wanting to programmatically do the same. I recorded a macro to see what
PowerPoint does. But when I run the macro, it deletes the shape instead of
resetting it. The macro did a shape.Delete.

I also tried shape.TextFrame.TextRange.Delete, but that just deletes the
text - it doesnt reset the styles to the master defaults (leaves style set
to last run in the text)

Any suggestions?

Thanks



Chris Harrington
Active Interface, LLC.
http://www.activeinterface.com

 

[ChrisHarrington]

Steve,

That is what I had tried originally. But it also leaves placeholder styles
set to those of the last run. There's just gotta be a way (I'd think)
without having to delete and re-insert the placeholder. Anything else worth
trying?

Chris

 

[John Wilson]

Try something like this

With ActivePresentation.Slides(1)
..Shapes(2).TextFrame.TextRange = ""
..Layout = .Layout
End With
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[ChrisHarrington]

Thanks John,

The problem with that is that it resets all placeholders on the slide. I
only want to reset the one.

Chris

 

[John Wilson]

In 2007 that's what happened I can see it's different in earlier versions

Try Shape.TextFrame.DeleteText
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