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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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VBA: How do I get this code to write 2-digit filenames only?

I am using the following VBA code to export PPT slides to images. The problem is that, for Slides 1 through 9, the filenames have only one character (eg: "1.png"). I need for those first nine slides to have TWO characters in their filename (eg:…
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Change the font of part of the text in a textbox in VBA

Ok, this hasn't been asked yet. So, I recently started exploring VBA in PowerPoint. I started to make something that look like a text editor in a slideshow. But, the problem is that the buttons that I made that supposed to make the selected text…
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Copy Excel table to Powerpoint returns run-time error '13'

I am really struggling with this, I don't seem to be able to find the reason for my code not working: Dim i1 As Integer Dim PPapp As Object, XLapp As Object Dim slide1 As Slide, slide2 As Slide, slide3 As Slide Dim PPoutput As Presentation Dim…
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Powerpoint Preview and Thumbnail

We are providing a thumbnail & preview functionality for rich powerpoint documents on our Java based site. Currently, we are using iSpringConverter tool for converting the powerpoint documents to swf file. The tool is licensed and windows based, and…
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Exporting PowerPoint as JPG end up with blurred texts

I'm developing a tool for exporting slides from a PowerPoint presentation to images and do some processing afterwards. Currently I'm using Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint package to do the job. The problem is that it fails with all texts,…
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unwanted deleting of custom layouts when slide in presentation is deleted

Sorry for flooding the forum lately, but I am almost done with my template. I have started testing my template and realized, that whenever I create a presentation, and delete a slide within that presentation the CUstomLayout used on that slide will…
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How can I view Microsoft Office Custom properties via the GUI?

You can programmatically add or delete custom document properties (also called meta data) to a Microsoft Office application like Word. See this link for an example. Now, is there a means to view these added PROGRAMMATICALLY-CREATED custom document…
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how can i embed ppt in webview to run on android

i want to create an android application in which i have to run ppt which will be present in sdcard. So far i have got to know that the only way to run the ppt is either calling different applications which deal with this or embed that in webview.…
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Create new Equation Macro in PowerPoint 2007

I'm helping out one of my professors but what should be a simple task is starting to frustrate me. I do not have any experience with Visual Basic used to create macros in MS Office 2007, specifically PowerPoint '07. All I need is a macro for…
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Clear clipboard when copying graphs in Excel VBA

I copy and paste several Excel graphs from Excel to Powerpoint using VBA: 'copy from excel worksheet Workbooks(Stats & ".xls").Worksheets(Stats).ChartObjects("graph4").Copy 'paste into powerpoint presentation .Slides(3).Shapes.Paste ' more…
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Can I define powerpoints or presentations in raw text?

Hi Guys : I wanted to create a power point presentation using a raw text file, so that i can rapidly edit the file and see the results, gauranteed with uniform formatting. Basically, I'm talking about separating the data content from the…
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Copy Legend of Chart to Powerpoint with VBA

I work on an excel script that creates powerpoint slides. On a powerpoint slide, I want to show the legend of a chart, but not the rest of the chart. Here is an excerpt of my code: With Sheets("data") Set bereich = Range(.Cells(Daty + 1, 3),…
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How to set specific data source for an active chart in PowerPoint

I'm trying to build a connection with an active PowerPoint presentation and specific sheet in a Workbook where my pivot table is. The xxlsm and xpptm files are open, in PowerPoint I'm adding a new slide to the end and I'm creating pie chart - ok,…
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Problem with links in Apache POI (Presentation) after merging several files (PPTX file crash)

I have a rather specific problem with links in my Java-generated presentation by Apache POI. I'm creating a presentation, based on a certain template, adding text to the presentation at a certain place to become a link. I use the code, of…
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Applying Tint value to RGB color (PowerPoint)

I am parsing PowerPoint file and trying read colors used. Following is small part from parsed ppt file. Here I am trying to get proper RGB color. So here original…
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