First of all I'm selecting a slide by it's ID. Once that is done I'm trying to select a TextRange so it appears like the image below, however, I keep getting an index out of bounds exception and I've no idea why.
I've also tried selecting the TextRange like this foundText.Select()
My code is as follows
_PowerPointApp.ActivePresentation.Slides.FindBySlideID(slideID).Select()
For Each slide As PowerPoint.Slide In _PowerPointApp.ActivePresentation.Slides
If slideID = slide.SlideID Then
For Each shape As PowerPoint.Shape In slide.Shapes
If shape.Name = slideShape Then
Dim foundText = shape.TextFrame.TextRange.Find(linkText)
If Not foundText Is Nothing Then
shape.TextFrame.TextRange.Characters(foundText.Start, foundText.Start + foundText.Length).Select()
End If
End If
Next
End If
Next
Related
I want to highlight the shape corresponding to a particular group. The following code is only highlighting shapes that are grouped with active page or master but not with the group present in the active page.
Sub CA_Trace_Conflict1()
PCC_CA = InputBox("Enter PCC Band")
'SCC1_CA = InputBox("Enter SCC1 Band")
Dim shp As Visio.Shape
Dim subshp As Visio.Shape
Dim connectorshape As Visio.Shape
Dim BandLinewidth As String
Dim lngShapeIDs() As Long
Dim count As Integer
Dim PCC_Flag As Integer
Dim SCC1_Flag As Integer
PCC_Flag = 0
SCC1_Flag = 0
Dim DiagramServices As Integer
DiagramServices = ActiveDocument.DiagramServicesEnabled
ActiveDocument.DiagramServicesEnabled = visServiceVersion140 + visServiceVersion150
Dim UndoScopeID1 As Long
PCC_CA_space = PCC_CA & " "
For Each shp In Visio.ActivePage.shapes
If shp.Type = 2 Then 'Check if shp is a group
For Each subshp In shp.shapes
If InStr(shp.Text, PCC_CA_space) > 0 Then
'If PCC_CA Like shp.Text Then
Set connectorshape = shp
Debug.Print shp.Parent
Application.ActiveWindow.Page.shapes.ItemFromID(shp.ID).CellsSRC(visSectionObject,visRowLine, visLineWeight).FormulaU = "5.5 pt"
' Debug.Print shp.ID
End If
Next
End If
Next
End Sub
I think you want to select a subshape within a group programmatically. Doing this in Visio is not obvious, so let me help. I'll put links to two articles on my website, plus one on Microsoft's at the end of the post. These discuss selection-related topics in further detail.
So let's tackle your problem...
Setup
Open a blank drawing in Visio
Draw two rectangles, then group them
You now have three shapes on this page.
Sheet.1 is a subshape
Sheet.2 is a subshape
Sheet.3 is the group
You can programmatically select the group like this, as you've discovered:
Public Sub SelectGroup()
'// Get the active window:
Dim win As Visio.Window
Set win = Visio.ActiveWindow
'// Deselect everything:
Call win.DeselectAll
'// Get a shape object:
Dim shp As Visio.Shape
Set shp = Visio.ActivePage.Shapes.ItemFromID(3) '<<----- Sheet.3 is the group!
'// Cause that shape to be selected in the window:
Call win.Select(shp, Visio.VisSelectArgs.visSelect)
'// Cleanup:
Set shp = Nothing
Set win = Nothing
End Sub
By the way, the Sub above is much more nitpicky and long than it has to be. But it will help to have things simple and clean, when you start adding features and behaviors. You can actually one-line the whole procedure like this--you can even paste this into the Immediate window:
Call Visio.ActiveWindow.Select(Visio.ActivePage.Shapes.ItemFromID(3), Visio.VisSelectArgs.visDeselectAll + Visio.VisSelectArgs.visSelect)
Now to subselect Sheet.1 or Sheet.2. One would think we could simply change the shp object to be one of the subshapes, ala:
'// Sheet.1 is a subshape, you'll get an error
Set shp = Visio.ActivePage.Shapes.ItemFromID(1) '<<----- ID = 1
but this won't work. In fact you'll get an "Inappropriate target object for this action" error.
To fix this, we have to pass a different argument to the Select method:
Public Sub SelectSubshape()
'// We've drawn two rectangles on a blank page, then
'// grouped them. Sheet.1 and Sheet.2 are subshapes,
'// Sheet.3 is the group.
'// Get the active window:
Dim win As Visio.Window
Set win = Visio.ActiveWindow
'// Deselect everything:
Call win.DeselectAll
'// Get a subshape object:
Dim shp As Visio.Shape
Set shp = Visio.ActivePage.Shapes.ItemFromID(2)
'// Cause that shape to be SUBSELECTED in the window.
'// Note the different argument: visSubSelect
Call win.Select(shp, Visio.VisSelectArgs.visSubSelect) ' <<------ visSubSelect!
'// Cleanup:
Set shp = Nothing
Set win = Nothing
End Sub
Voila! Subshape selected in the active window!
If you want to detect which shapes are already selected, then you'll have to fiddle with the IterationMode property of a Selection object. This is pretty confusing, plus I don't think you're asking for that right now. But knowing the term will help you search for help in the future, should you need it.
Articles
Getting a Handle on Selecting and Subselecting Visio Shapes
Detect Sub-selected Shapes Programmatically
Selection.Select method (Visio)
I have a presentation to split into several smaller ones depending on the text in the header.
I've managed to find and compile a code that finds the last slide that has the text), then it selects several previous slides, copies them to a new presentation, saves it, and repeats that for the next value.
This would be fine if number of slides with every text was the same (and all the slides with the same text were in the same order), but it's not always the case in my presentation. I need to modify the function.
Basically, it should return not just a slide, but a slide range, and it should be resized with every loop where if function is true. I know how to get all the slide indexes as a string, but I don't know how to use that string to select those slides.
Function FindSlideByTitle(sTextToFind As String) As slide
For Each oSl In ActivePresentation.slides
With oSl.Shapes.Title.TextFrame
If .HasText Then
If InStr(1, .TextRange.Text, sTextToFind, vbTextCompare) > 0 Then
Set FindSlideByTitle = oSl
End If
End If
End With
Next
I don't see an advantage to creating a slide range in this instance. A function for this isn't going to work, since it can only return one slide at a time, as you've discovered.
Instead, create a Sub using your loop, then replace
Set FindSlideByTitle = oSl
with a routine to add the found slide to an array:
Option Base 1
Dim FoundSlide() As Integer
Dim oSl As Slide
Sub FindSlideByTitle()
ReDim Preserve FoundSlide(1)
For Each oSl In ActivePresentation.Slides
With oSl.Shapes.Title.TextFrame
If .HasText Then
If InStr(1, .TextRange.Text, "Ham", vbTextCompare) > 0 Then
Count% = UBound(FoundSlide)
ReDim Preserve FoundSlide(Count% + 1)
FoundSlide(Count% + 1) = oSl.SlideNumber
End If
End If
End With
Next
End Sub
Then process that subset of slides one at a time:
Sub DoSomethingWithSlide()
For X = 1 To UBound(FoundSlide)
With ActivePresentation.Slides(FoundSlide(X))
'Process each slide here
End With
Next X
End Sub
Anyway, this is what I came up with in the end, and it (almost) seems to be working.
Dim sSlides() As String
sSlides() = Split(FindSlide(sCountry), ";|;")
Dim n As Long
Dim iSlides() As Integer
ReDim iSlides(LBound(sSlides) To UBound(sSlides))
For n = LBound(sSlides) To UBound(sSlides)
iSlides(n) = CInt(sSlides(n))
Next n
Dim rCountrySlides As SlideRange
Set rCountrySlides = ActivePresentation.slides.range(iSlides)
rCountrySlides.Select
I'm just poking around in VBA with PowerPoint and know that what I want to do can be done. I just don't know the write calls/sytanx to use!
I want a macro that will run through all the slides in a presentation and move the video object to specific spot on the slide. The spot will be the same on all slides.
It would be very helpful if someone could show me how to do this! Or at least point me in the right direction. Thanks!
Here's what I found for doing something on every slide
Sub EveryTextBoxOnSlide()
' Performs some operation on every shape that contains text on every slide
' (doesn't affect charts, tables, etc)
Dim oSh As Shape
Dim oSl As Slide
On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
For Each oSl In ActivePresentation.Slides
For Each oSh In oSl.Shapes
With oSh
If .HasTextFrame Then
If .TextFrame.HasText Then
' If font size is mixed, don't touch the font size
If .TextFrame.TextRange.Font.Size > 0 Then
.TextFrame.TextRange.Font.Size = .TextFrame.TextRange.Font.Size + 2
End If
End If
End If
End With
Next ' shape
Next ' slide
NormalExit:
Exit Sub
ErrorHandler:
Resume Next
End Sub
And this is something I found to move the object to desired location (here's where I don't know what to call the video object)
With ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange
.Left = 640 'change the number for desired x position
.Top = 75 'change the number for desired y position
End With
End Sub
Sub ll()
End Sub
So basically, I want to run the last piece as a function of the first one instead of shapes with text. Does that make sense?
I've done some programming in the past, mainly with actionscript and Flash. I could probably write out some basic functions, just not sure how to run it in VBA without learning a whole new language. Which I don't want to do, since I'm an instructional designer and don't have the free time to learn it! :)
Here's a little function that'll return True if the shape you pass to it is a video, and a bit of example code to test it with:
Function IsVideo(oSh As Shape) As Boolean
If oSh.Type = msoMedia Then
If oSh.MediaType = ppMediaTypeMovie Then
IsVideo = True
Exit Function
End If
End If
' Things get a little trickier if the movie is in a placeholder
' Is it a placeholder? and is it a media object?
If oSh.Type = msoPlaceholder Then
If oSh.PlaceholderFormat.ContainedType = msoMedia Then
' it's a media object, but we don't know if it's
' a movie or sound or what, so we duplicate it
' then look at the duplicate (which is now a copy
' of the placeholder content but is not a placeholder itself)
With oSh.Duplicate
If .Type = msoMedia Then
If .MediaType = ppMediaTypeMovie Then
IsVideo = True
End If
End If
' and delete the duplicate
.Delete
End With
End If
End If
End Function
Sub thing()
Dim oSl As Slide
Dim oSh As Shape
For Each oSl In ActivePresentation.Slides
For Each oSh In oSl.Shapes
If IsVideo(oSh) Then
oSh.Left = 0
End If
Next
Next
End Sub
Now you're getting somewhere!
I don't know what kind of shape holds your video, so this modification should help you identify it.
Sub EveryTextBoxOnSlide()
Dim oSh As Shape
Dim oSl As Slide
On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
For Each oSl In ActivePresentation.Slides
For Each oSh In oSl.Shapes
With oSh
.Select
End With
Next
Next
NormalExit:
Exit Sub
ErrorHandler:
Resume Next
End Sub
While there is no need whatsoever to use the .Select in your final code, this is only here to help you identify which shape actually holds the video. Put a breakpoint (F9) on that line and run your code (F5), then debug through it with F8 to execute one line at a time and run through your loop looking at each shape until you see that your video has been selected.
Once your video has been selected look at the various properties (using the Immediate Window of the IDE) of oSh until you find the uniqueness that identifies this is your video. (There may be some property about the content type of the shape, or a link on where to find the contents that contains the text string ".avi", ".mpg", ".flv", etc - there will be some sort of identifier you can find.)
Once you've identified what makes the shape the holder of a video, replace
.Select
with
If {my video containing shape criteria is true} Then
With .Selection.ShapeRange
.Left = 640 'change the number for desired x position
.Top = 75 'change the number for desired y position
End With
End If
Changing the values (as commented) to whatever it is that you need.
Important Note: It is very good that your sample code has some error handling built in, but all this error handler is doing is sweeping any errors under the rug. This particular handler is the very long form version of On Error Resume Next which does have its uses, but in very, very limited situations.
As you get your code working, you'll actually want to put something useful in the ErrorHandler: section, but that's the topic for a whole new question.
Ok, here is how I modified the code supplied above to do this in my case:
Sub EveryTextBoxOnSlide() ' Performs some operation on every shape that contains text on every slide ' (doesn't affect charts, tables, etc) Dim oSh As Shape Dim oSl As Slide On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
For Each oSl In ActivePresentation.Slides
For Each oSh In oSl.Shapes
With oSh
If .Type = msoMedia Then
If .MediaType = ppMediaTypeMovie Then
.PictureFormat.Crop.PictureHeight = 236
.PictureFormat.Crop.PictureWidth = 314.2115
.PictureFormat.Crop.PictureOffsetX = 8.737323
.PictureFormat.Crop.PictureOffsetY = 0
.PictureFormat.Crop.ShapeHeight = 236.3478
.PictureFormat.Crop.ShapeWidth = 163
.PictureFormat.Crop.ShapeLeft = 796.6956
.PictureFormat.Crop.ShapeTop = 0
End If
End If
End With
Next ' shape Next ' slide
NormalExit: Exit Sub
ErrorHandler: Resume Next
End Sub
I work from excel, and i open several powerpoint in a loop inside a directory, in vba.
While i run the macro (from excel), I make a loop within every shape inside every slides in powerpoints presentation.
I stop the macro to see if AutoShapeType = -2, and i select it in vba just to check visualy if the shape is the right shape i want.
Otherwise, if the selected shape doesn't seems right, I select it manually and I want to know how the syntaxe to get the id of the current selected shape, in order to name it.
Set PPtapp = CreateObject("Powerpoint.Application")
PPtapp.Visible = True
Dim sld As Slide
Dim numslide As Long
Dim nbslide As Long
Dim WVL_CptShape As Integer
'list of every powerpoint path
ppt = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Template").Range("A" & i).Value
For i = 2 To ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Template").Range("A65536").End(xlUp).Row + 1
Set PptDoc = PPtapp.Presentations.Open(ppt)
With PptDoc
For Each sld In PptDoc.Slides
For WVL_CptShape = 1 To .Slides(sld.SlideNumber).Shapes.Count
WVL_Id = .Slides(sld.SlideNumber).Shapes(WVL_CptShape).ID
If PptDoc.Slides(sld.SlideNumber).Shapes(WVL_CptShape).AutoShapeType = -2 Then
'I select the shape to see visualy if it's a good selection and I stop the macro
PptDoc.Slides(sld.SlideNumber).Shapes(WVL_CptShape).Select
Stop
'if the selection doesnt seems right I select the right shape manualy
'Question : in vba, i want to change the name of the selected shape.
'But i don't know how to get the id of the current selected shape (see below : ID_OF_CURRENT_SHAPE_SELECTED_MANUALY)
'I would like to rename it, in order to recognize it easily next time
PptDoc.Slides(sld.SlideNumber). Shapes(ID_OF_CURRENT_SHAPE_SELECTED_MANUALY).Selection.Name = "Myshape"
end if
Next WVL_CptShapeNext
sld.Close
End With
Next
PPtapp.Quit
Set PPtapp = Nothing
Set PptDoc = PPtapp.Presentations.Open(ppt)
With PptDoc
For Each sld In PptDoc.Slides
For WVL_CptShape = 1 To sld.Shapes.Count
WVL_Id = sld.Shapes(WVL_CptShape).ID
If sld.Shapes(WVL_CptShape).AutoShapeType = -2 Then
'I select the shape to see visualy if it's a good selection and I stop the macro
sld.Shapes(WVL_CptShape).Select
Stop
' And to change the name of the shape:
sld.Shapes(WVL_CptShape).Name = "New name for shape"
' or better, in case you selected a different shape:
ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange(1).Name = "New name for shape"
In this type of situation, you want to work with the shape's Index, not its ID.
Note that you can iterate through the shapes collection on a slide just as you can iterate through the slides collection in a presentation. It makes the code a lot simpler to write and to follow:
Set PptDoc = PPtapp.Presentations.Open(ppt)
With PptDoc
For Each sld In PptDoc.Slides
For each shp in sld.shapes
If shp.AutoShapeType = -2 Then
'I select the shape to see visualy if it's a good selection and I stop the macro
shp.Select
Stop
I am trying to select a slide by name. I have added a title via the outline. below is the code that is not working. "item Idaho not found in the slide collection"
ActivePresentation.Slides("Idaho").Select
The slide's name and the text in the title placeholder nave nothing to do with one another.
Unless you've renamed it, the first slide in the presentation will be named "Slide1", the second "Slide2" and so on.
If you specifically need a way to locate the slide whose title text = "Idaho", you'd need to write a function to search all the slides in the presentation and return the first one it finds that meets your criteria. For example:
Sub TestMe()
Dim oSl As Slide
Set oSl = FindSlideByTitle("idaho")
If Not oSl Is Nothing Then
MsgBox "Found your title on slide " & CStr(oSl.SlideIndex)
End If
End Sub
Function FindSlideByTitle(sTextToFind As String) As Slide
Dim oSl As Slide
For Each oSl In ActivePresentation.Slides
With oSl.Shapes.Title.TextFrame
If .HasText Then
If UCase(.TextRange.Text) = UCase(sTextToFind) Then
Set FindSlideByTitle = oSl
End If
End If
End With
Next
End Function
Reviving an old question, but I wanted to throw this in.
While it's possible that ActivePresentation.Slides("MySlideName").Select doesn't work, this does work for me in PPT 2010:
Dim PPTObj As PowerPoint.Application
Set PPTObj = New PowerPoint.Application
Dim PPTClinic As PowerPoint.Presentation
Set PPTClinic = PPTObj.Presentations.Open(FileName:="Your File Name Here")
PPTClinic.Slides("MySlideName").Select
This, of course, assumes that there is a slide named "MySlideName". Your code will have to deal with gracefully handling the Item MySlideName not found in the Slides collection. error (err.number = -2147188160).