If it's a plain ascii text file that looks something like this:
Title for slide 1
Title for slide 2
... and so on
you can just open it into PPT. Try it manually first. File, Open, point
to the
text file and go.
In article <2E9DBAA6-26BD-4D72-B4DF-CF23D4C4CAB4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Matzh
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to create a Powerpoint presentations with all slide titles
> preset from a text file, or the like, so that each line of the text
file.
> Pasting into the outlline view on the left hand side in Powerpoint is
not
> working. It just puts me everything onto the first title.
> So I tried Applescript which I think is more elegant anyway.
>
> My code:
> ell application "Microsoft PowerPoint"
> open alias "Macintosh HD:Users:xyz:Do***ents:Test.pptx"
> set myDo***ent to make new slide at after slide 3 of the active
> presentation with properties {slide layout text slide}
> #set properties of slide 4 of active presentation to slide layout text
slide
> end tell
>
> No matter what slide layout I am using, it is just inserting a title
slide.
> This also happens when I am opening a new presentation with Applescript.
> If I uncomment the third command above, I get an error: Microsoft
PowerPoint
> got an error: Can’t set properties of slide 4 of active presentation
to slide
> layout text slide.
>
> If I use "set properties of myDo***ent" instead, it is ignored and
remains a
> title slide.
>
> Am I overseeing something or is this so buggy? Is there any alternative
> solution? Changing/inserting text also only gave me error messages so
far :(
> Has anyone successfully done something with Applescript and Powerpoint
2008,
> yet? I have found very few resources about this in the net...
>
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