VBA linking applications videos | Excel VBA Part 28 - Creating PowerPoint Presentations

Posted by Andrew Gould on 26 March 2014

Writing VBA code in Excel doesn't only allow you to control Excel, you also have access to all of the other Office applications. This video looks at how to create presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint by writing code in Excel. You'll learn how to reference the PowerPoint Object Library, several methods for creating a new instance of the PowerPoint application, how to create new presentations and insert slides and how to copy data from Excel into PowerPoint. You'll also learn the importance of testing for which version of PowerPoint your users are running and how to write version-independent code that will work with (almost) any version of PowerPoint.

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duggie   Reply to duggieReply
21 Mar 19 at 15:56

Hi,

I followed your video but encountered an error on this line:

PPSlide.Shapes.Paste

I think the reason is I am using Excel 2010, whereas you are using Excel 2013.

Can you tell me how can I adapt it to work for Excel 2010?

Thanks

 

Andrew G   Reply to Andrew GReply
25 Mar 19 at 11:53

Hi duggie,

This code works for PowerPoint 2010 with the code written in Excel 2010 using a reference to the Microsoft PowerPoint 14.0 Object Library:

Sub TestPresentation()

    Dim ppt As PowerPoint.Application
    Dim pres As PowerPoint.Presentation
    Dim sld As PowerPoint.Slide
    
    Shell "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\POWERPNT.EXE", vbNormalFocus
    
    Set ppt = GetObject(Class:="PowerPoint.Application")
    Set pres = ppt.Presentations(1)
    
    Set sld = pres.Slides(1)
    sld.Shapes(1).TextFrame2.TextRange.Text = "Test Presentation"
    sld.Shapes(2).TextFrame2.TextRange.Text = "Wise Owl"
    
    Set sld = pres.Slides.Add(2, ppLayoutBlank)
    Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A1:D6").Copy
    sld.Shapes.PasteSpecial ppPasteOLEObject
    
    Set sld = pres.Slides.Add(3, ppLayoutBlank)
    Charts("Chart1").ChartArea.Copy
    sld.Shapes.Paste
    
End Sub

I hope that helps!

duggie   Reply to duggieReply
05 Apr 19 at 09:52

Thanks Andrew, that finally did the trick.

 

 

duggie   Reply to duggieReply
29 Mar 19 at 10:46

Andrew,


Thanks for the update. Unfortunately I encountered the following problems when running your amended code:


When I copied and pasted your code into a new VBA workbook, I ran it and got this error:


            Run-time error '-2147188160 (80048240)':
            Presentations (unknown member): Integer out of range. 1 is not in the valid range 1 to 0.

Powerpoint is opened with a blank slide

I pressed the Debug option and this line is highlighted:

            Set pres = ppt.Presentations(1)

  I changed the 1 to a 0 (I wasn't sure what to do!) and pressed F5. I immediately got this error message:

            Run-time error '-2147188160 (80048240)':
            Presentations (unknown member): Integer out of range. 0 is not in the valid range 1 to 1.

I pressed Debug and the same line was at fault,


            Set pres = ppt.Presentations(0)


so I changed it back from 0 to 1 and pressed F5.

Then I got a different error:

            Run-time error '9'
            Subscript out of range

though Powerpoint now contains a slide with Test Presentation and Wise Owl

Pressing debug shows this line at fault:

            Charts("Chart1").ChartArea.Copy

Can you tell me if the problem lies with my Excel / Powerpoint combination or could it be something else?

Thanks

 

 

Andrew G  
29 Mar 19 at 11:15

Hi duggie,

You can change this line:

Set pres = ppt.Presentations(1)

To this:

Set pres = ppt.Presentations.Add

The following line assumes that you have a chart called Chart1:

Charts("Chart1").ChartArea.Copy

You can change "Chart1" to the name of the chart you want to copy.

I hope that helps!

Incidentally, i had to use the following line in order to make PowerPoint 2010 run on my machine as I have later versions of Office installed:

Shell "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\POWERPNT.EXE", vbNormalFocus

If you only have Office 2010 installed you can remove the above line and then alter the line which uses the GetObject function to the version shown below:

Set ppt = CreateObject(Class:="PowerPoint.Application")

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