Macro to pull text from PPT

Question

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

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

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