How can I find the current edit slide in PowerPoint?

Posted by mj2008 on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by mj2008
Published on 2010-05-10T15:38:44Z Indexed on 2010/05/10 15:44 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 170

Filed under:

powerpoint

|

delphi

I'm writing an add-in for PowerPoint, and want to get the text from the current slide in the editing window. The following works, but only when the slide is selected in the slide selector pane.

xSelection := PowerPointApp.ActiveWindow.Selection;
if xSelection.Type = ppSelectionSlides then
begin
  xSlide := xSelection.SlideRange.Item(1);
end;

I've been chasing my tail at MSDN trying to work out what the correct way to find out the current slide is. The DocumentWindow doesn't seem to have a current slide.

© Stack Overflow or respective owner

Related posts about powerpoint

Save Powerpoint 2007 as Powerpoint 2003 using Open Office SDK 2.0

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Is there anyway to use the Open Office SDK 2.0 to save a powerpoint presention that you created using OOXML to a Office 2003 powerpoint presentation? I know if you open a 2007 file and click Save As you have the option to save it as a Powerpoint 97 to 2003 document and I didn't know if I could do… >>> More
Cannot create multiple instances of PowerPoint

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I'm working on a project where I need to use PowerPoint from C#.net. Initially, I always created one single instance. As of today, I would like to have multiple instance running. I do that like so: Type powerpointType = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("PowerPoint.Application"); object instance1 = Activator… >>> More
Naming PowerPoint Components With A VSTO Add-In

as seen on Geeks with Blogs - Search for 'Geeks with Blogs'
Note: Cross posted from Coding The Document. Permalink Sometimes in order to work with Open XML we need a little help from other tools. In this post I am going to describe a fairly simple solution for marking up PowerPoint presentations so that they can be used as templates and processed using… >>> More
Multimedia How-To: Producer for PowerPoint 2007

as seen on Internet.com - Search for 'Internet.com'
Need a creative boost to your small business marketing materials? Helen Bradley shows how to add multimedia to your presentations with Producer for PowerPoint 2007. >>> More
Multimedia How-To: Producer for PowerPoint 2007

as seen on Internet.com - Search for 'Internet.com'
Need a creative boost to your small business marketing materials? Helen Bradley shows how to add multimedia to your presentations with Producer for PowerPoint 2007. >>> More

Related posts about delphi

TVirtualStringTree compatibility between Delphi 7 and Delphi 2010 - 'Parameter lists differ'

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Hi, I've made a form containing a TVirtualStringTree that works in Delphi 7 and Delphi 2010. I notice that as I move between the two platforms I get the message '...parameter list differ..' on the tree events and that the string type is changing bewteen TWideString (D7) and string (D2010). The only… >>> More
Convert Delphi 7 code to work with Delphi 2009

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I have a String that I needed access to the first character of, so I used stringname[1]. With the unicode support this no longer works. I get an error: [DCC Error] sndkey32.pas(420): E2010 Incompatible types: 'Char' and 'AnsiChar' Example code: //vkKeyScan from the windows unit var KeyString:… >>> More
Book recommendation for moving from Delphi 6 to Delphi 2010

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Hi, I am a long time Delphi 6 developer. Looking for a book on Delphi 2010. Not only on the new features available in Delphi 2010, but more importantly, guideline on how different it is to develop applications in Delphi 2010, the architecture, standard and convention, etc. Thanks a lot. >>> More
Compile Delphi component package (bpl) for different Delphi versions

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Hello. The situation is the following. Typically I use RAD Studio 2010 for Delphi development. I have some components I would like to redistribute in binary form (*.bpl without source). But I would like people to be able to use them despite of their Delphi version. But, for example, dcu files can… >>> More
Delphi Speech recognition delphi

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I need create a programatic equivalent using delphi language... or could someone post a link on how to do grammars in peech recogniton using the delphi. sorry for my english... XML Grammar Sample(s): <GRAMMAR>  <RULE NAME="HelloWorld"… >>> More