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PowerPoint is a Windows and Macintosh presentation program produced by Microsoft. It is primarily used to create presentations for projection. Due to the flexible nature of its canvas, it is also used for animation, e-learning, web broadcasting, business reporting and kiosk applications.

Amongst the standard Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, Access and PowerPoint), PowerPoint is the least-developed against and for product. Technologies used to develop for and against PowerPoint:

  1. Visual Basic for Application (aka VBA)
  2. Visual Studio Tools for Office (aka VSTO)
  3. Visual Studio (Interop)
  4. Open Office XML (aka OOXML, OpenXML)

Other technologies such as PHP, Java and Perl have also been used to develop solutions for PowerPoint.

Relevant tags on Stack Overflow for PowerPoint programming:

Quick start powerpoint 2016

PowerPoint Quick Start

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HTML embedded PDF all links override to open in a new tab (target="_blank")

I currently have a PDF embedded into an webpage. The PDF has several hyperlinks within it, but the links open in the parent frame when clicked. This takes the user to a new page with no option to return to the original PDF (navigation turned off). I…
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How to get the MD5 hex hash for a file using VBA?

How can I get the MD5 hex hash for a file using VBA? I need a version that works for a file. Something as simple as this Python code: import hashlib def md5_for_file(fileLocation, block_size=2**20): f = open(fileLocation) md5 =…
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How not to count page numbers for hidden slides in PPT?

In presentation mode, I want only unhidden slides to appear with consecutive page numbers. How can I avoid that hidden slides are counted?
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Android: Display .mht or .mhtml in Webview in Application

We are developing an application in which we need to display a Presentation (PowerPoint) file (.ppt or .pptx).. We have heard that no API is available in Android to display Presentation files within our application. So we tried to convert that…
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Powerpoint: Manually set Slide Name

Context: A PowerPoint slide in C# has a property Slide.Name (usually contains an arbitrary string value). In my C# application I would like to use this property to identify slides (the slide order is to unreliable). Question: How can I manually set…
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How to apply particular layout in powerpoint using vba?

I am working on one project. In that I made one custom theme which includes one master slide and may layouts. so basically i want to apply particular layout to specific slides. So is there any way to do it by programmatically. like…
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Extracting text from multiple powerpoint files using python

I am trying to find a way to look in a folder and search the contents of all of the powerpoint documents within that folder for specific strings, preferably using Python. When those strings are found, I want to report out the text after that string…
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Version control for Microsoft Power Point 2016

I don't know whether this is appropriate question for this or Superuser SE. Please feel free to migrate to that if required. Background : I use git for my daily code or report writing. However when it comes to making power point presentations, I…
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Handling a Shape by its Placeholder Name in PowerPoint

I am attempting to create a function that will return a specific shape, based on the known Name property assigned to the CustomLayout.Shapes.Placeholder object. I can't use the shape .Name because this is not known in advance, even when creating…
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Open Source HTML5 Online Powerpoint Viewer

I wondered if anyone is aware of any online powerpoint viewers that are open source? I've looked at http://www.accusoft.com/products/viewer/on-premise/info/overview/ which is the closest thing but it only works with web based documents, mine will be…
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PowerPoint VBA - loop all slides, all shapes, find chart, set datalabel color to Black

I'm new to PowerPoint VBA so please bear with me. I would like to: loop through all the slides on a given pptx, loop through all the shapes on a given slide, find chart shapes loop through the chart's series collection set the datalabel color…
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What is the best way to return File or ErrorMessage from Asp.net-mvc controller action?

I have the following JavaScript code and controller action in my ASP.NET-MVC project: Javascript: $("#exportPPT").live('click', function (e) { window.location.href = "/Initiative/GenerateFile" + GenerateParams(); }); C# Controller: public…
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Writing custom code for PowerPoint using leap motion?

I am trying to make a gesture based PowerPoint slideshow. JavaScript would certainly not work here as I want my slideshow to work when that particular PowerPoint file (.ppt) is opened for windows. I googled, posted a question on the Leap Motion…
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PowerPoint Text Change Upon Click

I have several text boxes. They say: Fruit 1 Fruit 2 Fruit 3 When I click each one, the text should correspondingly change to: Apple Banana Dragonfruit When one of them is clicked, I want it to change to the respective text, but the others to…
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How do you change the font of an equation in PowerPoint 2010?

In PowerPoint 2010, how do you change the font of an equation from the default of Cambria Math to, for instance, Times or Arial?
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