Getting the text of the first slide of a PowerPoint file

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:27:50 -0400, "Daniel
Greenfeld"
<pydannygmail.com> wrote:

>On to part 2 of my project.  I need to be able to get
the text of the
>first slide out of a lot of Powerpoint files.  If anyone
can give me
>some handy hints, that would be appreciated.
>  
>

PowerPoint is one program that I've never tried to
automate, but the
same techniques you used in Word should work here.

Here is the start page in MSDN that describes the PowerPoint
object model:
   
ht
tp://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-
us/modcore/html/deovrMicrosoftPowerPoint2000.asp

It looks like you should be able to start from the
Application object,
then use the ActivePresentation property to get a
Presentation object,
then get the first Slide from the Slides collection.  The
text is stored
as a series of TextFrame objects in the Shapes collection.

The rest is easy...

>By the way, thanks to Tim, my script to handle all the
word documents
>is running today in 26 batches.  This list has been very
helpful.
>  
>

I'm glad to hear this.  IMHO, this is exactly the kind of
task that
Python is perfect for.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timrprobo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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