Shape.AlternativeText in PowerPoint 2007

[Stein-Tore Erdal]

AlternativeText property of the Shape object in PowerPoint 2007 does not
seem to work.
Gets "<Object doesn't support this action>" when trying to access it.

According to documentation (2007) any Shape should have it.
Worked fine in PowerPoint 2003.

Anyone experienced the same?

Stein-Tore Erdal

 

[Stein-Tore Erdal]

Seems it only applies to a Shape inside a table cell.
For the Shape that contains the table, all properties work as expected.
For shapes inside a table cell, most of the Shape properties is not set.
A very distinct change (bug?) from PowerPoint 2003.

I need a way to mark any Shape, even one inside a table cell, so I can find
again later.
I used the AlternativeText property to do so.
In Word one can use bookmarks to mark a place in the document, but
PowerPoint does not seem to have this concept.

If anyone has another idea as to how to do this I would be gratefull.


Stein-Tore

 

[Shyam Pillai]

Hi,
Yes, this is a bug in PPT 2007. In previous versions you could reference the
shape within the table and get/set all properties. Unfortunately, you can
only tag the table itself now and not any of the child shapes.


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