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Mohan
Hello Experts,
My intention is to automate powerpoint to print presentations WITHOUT any
user intervention.
I am able to do this successfully, except for the case when the power point
presentation, has links. For example, an "automatic link" to another excel
file. When the powerpoint application object, opens such ppts, the user is
shown the "update links" dialog.
I would like to know the procedure to avoid this dialog from popping up.
a) Is there any way to avoid this pop-up through some VBA method or property.
b) The dialog comes with three options. Update Links, Cancel and Help. The
focus is by default on "Cancel". Is there a technqiue to tell the powerpoint
application object (through the vba code) to choose the "Cancel" by default
(so that the dialog does not popup), rather than the user giving the input?
c) Does powerpoint provide any properties exposed through the
"IPropertySetStorage" interface to indicate the fact that the presentation
has some links to other data sources like an excel file. If it is indeed
provided, then please do advise about the same so that I can use c++ code to
access the property and know about this information.
d) Is there any way information provided by powerpoint, that can be accessed
through Office Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). I haven't used one,
and not sure how to use the same? If it is indeed possible, then please do
point me to the right resource link/sample, that gives an example, to read
such properties of powerpoint through the API. If I can find that the file
has "automatic links", it should atleast enable me to know about it and do a
skip.
Thanks in advance,
Mohan
My intention is to automate powerpoint to print presentations WITHOUT any
user intervention.
I am able to do this successfully, except for the case when the power point
presentation, has links. For example, an "automatic link" to another excel
file. When the powerpoint application object, opens such ppts, the user is
shown the "update links" dialog.
I would like to know the procedure to avoid this dialog from popping up.
a) Is there any way to avoid this pop-up through some VBA method or property.
b) The dialog comes with three options. Update Links, Cancel and Help. The
focus is by default on "Cancel". Is there a technqiue to tell the powerpoint
application object (through the vba code) to choose the "Cancel" by default
(so that the dialog does not popup), rather than the user giving the input?
c) Does powerpoint provide any properties exposed through the
"IPropertySetStorage" interface to indicate the fact that the presentation
has some links to other data sources like an excel file. If it is indeed
provided, then please do advise about the same so that I can use c++ code to
access the property and know about this information.
d) Is there any way information provided by powerpoint, that can be accessed
through Office Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). I haven't used one,
and not sure how to use the same? If it is indeed possible, then please do
point me to the right resource link/sample, that gives an example, to read
such properties of powerpoint through the API. If I can find that the file
has "automatic links", it should atleast enable me to know about it and do a
skip.
Thanks in advance,
Mohan