Working with Microsoft PowerPoint Objects

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As with other Microsoft® Office applications, you begin automating Microsoft® PowerPoint® by using the Application object. From the Application object, you can open an existing Presentation object or create a new presentation. Each Presentation object contains one or more Slide objects and each Slide object can contain Shape objects that represent text, graphics, tables, and other items found on a slide.

In This Section

• Understanding the PowerPoint Application Object
  Use the Application object to get started writing Microsoft® Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA) code to work with PowerPoint.
• Working with the Presentation Object
  Use a PowerPoint template, a presentation saved with a .pot extension that contains master slides and might contain regular slides, to apply a consistent look to an entire presentation.
• Working with PowerPoint Slides
  Use the Slides collection returned by the Slides property of the Presentation object to add new slides to or access an existing slide in a presentation.
• Working with Shapes on Slides
  Understand how to refer to a Shape object on a slide.

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