While Auto_Open doesn’t run in a PowerPoint presentation, you can fake it. Add a CustomUI part to the presentation, then use the CustomUI OnLoad callback to run code when the presentation opens. The CustomUI part needs no more than just the CustomUI tags. Get the Custom UI Editor from here: http://openxmldeveloper.org/articles/customuieditor.aspx Open the presentation in … Read more
Given I dont have your file locations to work with I have attached a routine below that Created a new instance of PowerPoint (late binding, hence the need to define constants for ppViewSlide etc) Loops through each chart in a sheet called Chart1 (as per your example) Adds a new slide Pastes each chart, then … Read more
The LEAP Motion Controller Add-ins for Microsoft Office which you found is likely to be the best way to integrate the controller with Powerpoint. To get started with it, you’ll need Visual Studio (seems like you’ll need 2012). Microsoft has an overview page for Office Development in Visual Studio. Follow the instructions on the Configuring … Read more
PowerPoint for Windows: Click on the object (textbox, shape, etc.) to select it. In the Drawing Tools | Format tab, click on Selection Pane in the Arrange group. From there, you’ll see names of objects. Double click (or press F2) on any name and rename it. By deselecting it, it becomes renamed. You can also … Read more
As one can find in python-pptx’s documentation at https://python-pptx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/text.html a text frame is made up of paragraphs and a paragraph is made up of runs and specifies a font configuration that is used as the default for it’s runs. runs specify part of the paragraph’s text with a certain font configuration – possibly different from … Read more
What you need to do is invoke the PasteSpecial “Keep Source Formatting and Embed Workbook”. Assume you have already created the charts, and the slides, placeholders/etc., and you have already copied the chart and navigated to the destination slide, and that you have an object like PPTApp to represent the PowerPoint.Application object. Instead of using … Read more
The Win32 API handles the serial port as a file. You can access the serial ports directly by calling these API functions from within VBA. I had to do this for an old .NET application but VBA is no different. Rather than hash it out for you on this site, here’s a reference I’ve hung … Read more
Yes, you can. You will want to look into MSDN which has a pretty good introduction to it. I might give you a word of warning, Microsoft Office interop is compatible with an API which is now more than 10 years old. Because of this, it is downright nasty to use sometimes. If you have … Read more
Plain and simple…this is the best method to embed any Microsoft or Adobe file into a HTML website. <iframe src=”https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/embed.aspx?src=[https://www.your_website/file_name.pptx]” width=”100%” height=”600px” frameborder=”0″>
Google Docs can serve up PowerPoint (and PDF) documents in it’s document viewer. You don’t have to sign up for Google Docs, just upload it to your website, and call it from your page: <iframe src=”https://docs.google.com/gview?url=https://www.yourwebsite.com/powerpoint.ppt&embedded=true” style=”width:600px; height:500px;” frameborder=”0″></iframe>