Copy & Paste of PowerPoint Slides in Matlab

Hi there,

I have a PowerPoint template presentation consisting of one slide to which I would like to append several slides with Matlab figures. Hence, for each figure I want to copy and paste this slide and add the figure to the pasted one. Up to now I use an activexserver to open the presentation. I know how to select a slide and how to copy a figure to it, but I don't know how to copy and paste the slide itself.

Can anyone help me? And where can I find documentation for the possible activeX-commands for PowerPoint in Matlab? Searching with Google gives a lot of other ActiveX stuff, probably I used the wrong search items...

Thanks a lot it advance!

Answer 1

[Kaustubha Govind]

I don't know of specific documentation examples for calling PowerPoint as a COM server from MATLAB (there are examples with Excel however), but there is at least one File Exchange submission that might be useful: saveppt

Also, here is the official PowerPoint COM API Reference. Once you are familiar with this API, using it in MATLAB is no different from using it in VBA.

[Oliver]

I already know the saveppt-example, but the link to the reference is very helpful! Thanks a lot :-)

Answer 2

[Fangjun Jiang]

I think you are looking for the methods for doing "Duplicate Slide" or copy and paste slides. The following should do it.

 hApp=actxserver ('Powerpoint.Application');
 set(hApp,'Visible','msoTrue');
 hPre=hApp.Presentations.Add;
 hSli=hPre.Slides; 
 hPag1=hSli.Add(1,1);
 hSha=hPag1.Shapes;
 set(hSha.Item(1).TextFrame.TextRange,'Text','This is my title');

 hPag2=hPag1.Duplicate;

 hPag1.Copy
 hPag3=hSli.Paste;
 hPag4=hSli.Paste;

[Oliver]

Thank you very much! This is exactly what I was looking for :-)

[Himanshu Verma]

@Fangjun Jiang I'm working on a Matlab code to copy the powerpoint slides and paste them as images in an excel sheet using actxserver. But I'm unable to use 'Copy' command. Can you help me with it? Thanks in advance.