Unable to copy data from Excel to PPT using Macro - vba

Question

I have a macro that basically is supposed to copy ranges from excel spreadsheets and then paste them into a powerpoint file. So one excel sheet per slide.
Here is my macro so far:
Option Explicit
Sub ExportToPPT()
Dim PPAPP As PowerPoint.Application
Dim PPRES As PowerPoint.Presentation
Dim PPSlide As PowerPoint.Slide
Dim ppSRng As PowerPoint.ShapeRange
Dim XLAPP As Excel.Application
Dim XLwbk As Excel.Workbook
Dim xlWst As Excel.Worksheet
Dim XLRng As Excel.Range
Dim ppPathFile As String
Dim ppNewPathFile
Dim chartNum As Integer
Dim maxCharts As Integer
Debug.Print vbCrLf & " ---- EXPORT EXCEL RANGES POWERPOINT ----"
Debug.Print Now() & " - Exporting ranges to .ppt"
'CHANGE WHEN ADDING CHARTS - MUST ALSO ADD SLIDE to .PPT and change loop
Dim chartRng(1 To 9) As Excel.Range
Dim SlideNum As Integer
Dim SlideOffset As Integer
Set XLwbk = Excel.ActiveWorkbook
Set xlWst = XLwbk.Sheets("Test1")
'This accounts for the title slide and any others before the automatedpaste
SlideOffset = 1
Set chartRng(1) = XLwbk.Sheets("Test1").Range("A1:B15")
Set chartRng(2) = XLwbk.Sheets("Test2").Range("A1:E33")
Set chartRng(3) = XLwbk.Sheets("Test3").Range("A1:E33")
Set chartRng(4) = XLwbk.Sheets("Test4").Range("A1:E4")
Set chartRng(5) = XLwbk.Sheets("Test5").Range("A1:J14")
Set chartRng(6) = XLwbk.Sheets("Test6").Range("A1:I33")
Set chartRng(7) = XLwbk.Sheets("Test7").Range("A1:I11")
Set chartRng(8) = XLwbk.Sheets("Test8").Range("A1:I8")
' Create instance of PowerPoint
Set PPAPP = CreateObject("Powerpoint.Application")
PPAPP.Visible = True
' Open the presentation (Same folder as the Excel file)
ppPathFile = ActiveWorkbook.Path + "TestPPT.pptx"
Debug.Print ppPathFile
Set PPRES = PPAPP.Presentations.Open(ppPathFile)
PPAPP.ActiveWindow.ViewType = ppViewSlide
chartNum = 1
'Loop through all chart ranges
'CHANGE WHEN ADDING CHARTS
For chartNum = 1 To 9
SlideNum = chartNum + SlideOffset
Debug.Print "Chart number " & chartNum & " to slide number " & SlideNum
' Copy the range as a picture
chartRng(chartNum).CopyPicture Appearance:=xlScreen, Format:=xlPicture
'PowerPoint operations
Set PPSlide = PPAPP.ActivePresentation.AddSlide(1, _ **//New code**
PPAPP.ActivePresentation.SlideMaster.CustomLayouts.Item(2))
Debug.Print PPSlide.Name
PPSlide.Select
PPAPP.ActiveWindow.ViewType = ppViewSlide
'ppapp.ActivePresentation.Slides.
' Paste the range
'PPAPP.ActiveWindow.View.Slide (SlideNum)
PPAPP.ActiveWindow.View.Paste
'PPSlide.Shapes.Paste
'PPSlide.Shapes(0).Select
'PPSlide.Shapes.Paste.Select
' Align the pasted range
Set ppSRng = PPAPP.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange
With ppSRng
.LockAspectRatio = msoTrue
If (.Width / .Height) > 1.65 Then
.Width = 650
Else
.Height = 400
End If
End With
With ppSRng
'.Width = 650
.Align msoAlignCenters, True
.Align msoAlignMiddles, True
.IncrementTop 1.5
End With
Next chartNum
PPAPP.ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Select
PPAPP.ActiveWindow.ViewType = ppViewNormal
PPAPP.Activate
ppNewPathFile = ActiveWorkbook.Path & "\Test\TestPPT.pptx" & Format(Now(), "yyyymmdd_hhmmss")
PPAPP.ActivePresentation.SaveAs ppNewPathFile, ppSaveAsDefault
Debug.Print Now() & " - Finished"
End Sub
When I run the Macro it opens PowerPoint but stops and I get the following Error:
And when I debug it stops at this line:
Set PPSlide = PPAPP.ActivePresentation.Slides(SlideNum)
Any help on how to fix this would be great guys.

Answer 1

The error points to a counting problem that you've introduced in your code. Apparently, during the first iteration, it attempts to choose the second slide of a one-slide presentation (the second slide does not exist) and throwing an error.
I would assume this occurs because of your SlideOffset variable. Consider first adding a slide using before running Set PPSlide = PPAPP.ActivePresentation.Slides(SlideNum). Something like this:
Set pptLayout = PPAPP.ActivePresentation.Slides(1).CustomLayout
Set pptSlide = PPAPP.ActivePresentation.Slides.AddSlide(2, pptLayout)

Answer 2

Try using this
Set PPSlide = PPAPP.ActivePresentation.AddSlide(1, _
PPAPP.ActivePresentation.SlideMaster.CustomLayouts.Item(2))