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Automating Powerpoint Slide

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Posted on by JackyGrealish

Hi,

I am trying to automate inputting values, text and image into a powerpoint slide. Is there a way where everything can be used by UI elements?

The yellow text to input text of presentation name, Purple: to add image into the blue box(input and resize to blue box), And pink is to input values taken from excel sheet. Right now I am using mouse clicks using coordinates to direct it to the places. But sometimes it misclicks and values are all scattered in the slide, hence I would want to try whether it can be replacaed to UI elements such that it does not misclick and only input in the spaces shown below. Is there a solution to this?

Thanks 🙂

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ryule 929 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Since the elements don't exist, I can't think of a way to do it outside of what you have mentioned.
What about creating a PowerPoint template? Maybe that would help?
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-and-save-a-powerpoint-template-ee4429ad-2a74-4100-82f7-50f8169c8aca
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Hi @JackyGrealish

Individual elements of a PowerPoint slide can be accessed via the PowerPoint Object Model - ie; via a VBA macro.

PAD does not have a way of calling a PPT macro, so that will have to be written in Excel VBA and then called via PAD.