How to clear Slide Master of all information in PowerPoint using VBA? - vba

Question

I would like to open every PowerPoint (*.pptx) in current folder and clear the Slide Master of all images and text boxes and then save.
(It says my post is mostly code so I need to add more detail, so here is a quote by George Washington, "Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company")
New code
Sub DeleteSlideMasterShapes()
Dim i As Long
Dim shp As Shape
With ActivePresentation
For i = .Designs.Count To 1 Step -1
For Each shp In .Designs(i).SlideMaster.Shapes
shp.Delete
Next
Next i
End With
End Sub
Sub loopFiles()
Dim fso As New FileSystemObject
Dim fil As File
Dim fold As Folder
Dim yourfolder As String
Set fold = fso.GetFolder(Application.ActivePresentation.Path)
For Each fil In fold.Files
If InStr(1, fil.Name, ".pptx") > 0 Then
Application.Presentations.Open fil.Path
Call DeleteSlideMasterShapes
ActivePresentation.Save
ActivePresentation.Close
End If
Next fil
End Sub

Answer 1

Another approach, in case you want to delete all the shapes from all Slide Masters AND the master's layouts:
Sub DeleteSlideMasterShapes()
' Including shapes on layouts
Dim oDes As Design
Dim oLay As CustomLayout
With ActivePresentation
' For each slide master:
For Each oDes In .Designs
' Delete the shapes on the master
oDes.SlideMaster.Shapes.Range.Delete
' Then delete the shapes from each layout under
' the slide master:
For Each oLay In oDes.SlideMaster.CustomLayouts
oLay.Shapes.Range.Delete
Next
Next
End With
End Sub

Answer 2

Further to my comments, if you want to delete the slide master then use this
Sub DeleteSlideMaster()
Dim i As Long
With ActivePresentation
On Error Resume Next
For i = .Designs.Count To 1 Step -1
.Designs(i).SlideMaster.Delete
Next i
On Error GoTo 0
End With
End Sub
To delete Shapes of a slidemaster, use this
Sub DeleteSlideMasterShapes()
Dim i As Long
Dim shp As Shape
With ActivePresentation
For i = .Designs.Count To 1 Step -1
For Each shp In .Designs(i).SlideMaster.Shapes
shp.Delete
Next
Next i
End With
End Sub
If I have not understood your query then please feel free to ask