What is a PPT document composed of?

[David Thielen]

Hi;

A Word document via the COM API is basically N characters which make
up the document. You can get paragraphs, fields, and other ranges, but
all have a start & end offset in the document.

An Excel spreadsheet is a collection of areas which are themselves
collections of rows and cells. So here a range is a box of cells.

For PPT though it seems like there is text, shapes, tables, etc. Is
there some clear explination of how best to view and access a PPT
presentation?

thanks - dave

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[Cindy M.]

Hi David,

For PPT though it seems like there is text, shapes, tables, etc. Is
there some clear explination of how best to view and access a PPT
presentation?

The specialists for the PowerPoint object model are mainly in the
one-and-only PowerPoint newsgroup, although Steve Rindsberg does
happen by on occasion...

I believe that the basic PowerPoint object, besides the Slides, is
the Shape. Everything in PowerPoint is positioned with a Shape of one
kind or another and I believe you can access everything through the
Shapes collection. Then check the Type property (msoShapeType) to
determine what kind of Shape you've got. The (VBA) Help for the Shape
object has a number of examples...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[David Thielen]

thank you - dave

Hi David,

The specialists for the PowerPoint object model are mainly in the
one-and-only PowerPoint newsgroup, although Steve Rindsberg does
happen by on occasion...

I believe that the basic PowerPoint object, besides the Slides, is
the Shape. Everything in PowerPoint is positioned with a Shape of one
kind or another and I believe you can access everything through the
Shapes collection. Then check the Type property (msoShapeType) to
determine what kind of Shape you've got. The (VBA) Help for the Shape
object has a number of examples...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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me -- http://dave.thielen.com

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