detect imported pictures vs. non-imported pictures

[Tony Logan]

Is there a way to have my code tell if a given shape in a file is an imported
picture? Right now I see no way to do this.

Ultimately I want to convert each imported picture to a drawing object, but
I'd like to do it with code rather than have users manually click through an
entire file to see whether it is or isn't an imported picture.

I can loop through each slide in the file, and each shape on each slide, but
I don't see any way to tell me if a given shape is an imported picture.

Thanks.

 

[Bill Dilworth]

an imported picture as opposed to what? All pictures are either imported or
linked.

Do you mean an OLE object as opposed to a picture?


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[Tony Logan]

Not sure as opposed to what. However, a bit of additional info:

In a given PowerPoint file, I can click on some of the shapes in the file,
then click on "Draw" on the Drawing Toolbar, then select "Ungroup." The
objects ungroup.

Other shapes I do the same thing to, but before the objects will ungroup, I
get a dialog stating "This is an imported object, not a group. If you convert
it to a Microsoft drawing object..."

For the latter shapes (the ones where I get the dialog), I'm trying to
figure out if there's a way I can search for them and convert them
programatically, rather than make a user do it manually.

If I loop through all the objects on a slide and look at the Shape.Type
property, there doesn't seem to be any way for me to tell whether a shape is
an imported object or not. But perhaps there's a different way to do it?

Also forgot to note that I'm running PowerPoint 2003, Windows XP with SP2.

Thanks.