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Macro to pull text from PPT

Anonymous
2014-07-10T08:47:37+00:00

Hi,

I need a macro to extract all the text in a PowerPoint file (2007) consisting with many slides  and paste into a word file (path for source and output file name should be specify through a message box).

Could anyone please help on this?

Regards

John

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Steve Rindsberg 99,166 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2014-07-12T20:29:58+00:00

This should get a few more bits of text.

Export Text to a text file, extract text from PowerPoint (Mac or PC)

http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00274_Export_Text_to_a_text_file-_extract_text_from_PowerPoint_-Mac_or_PC-.htm

Still needs further tweaking to get text from groups, tables, smartart etc.

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Anonymous
2014-07-10T10:30:28+00:00

This page has several code snippets to pull text into Word. None do exactly what you need but the Outline / Notes example will get you close and could easily be modify to look at all shapes not justy placeholders. The text is "typed" into a new document which you can save wherever.

http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/PPT2WORD.html

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-07-12T17:04:14+00:00

    As I said the code would only pull code in placeholders. You would need to make some modifications to get all text.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-07-12T08:37:49+00:00

    This page has several code snippets to pull text into Word. None do exactly what you need but the Outline / Notes example will get you close and could easily be modify to look at all shapes not justy placeholders. The text is "typed" into a new document which you can save wherever.

    http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/PPT2WORD.html

    Hi John,

    Yes, somehow this code helped me to get what i expected, however few text were unable to pulled from slides.

    Thanks

    John

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