What is a PPT presentation & slide composed of?

[David Thielen]

Hi;

A Word document via the COM API is basically N characters which make
up the document. You can get paragraphs, fields, and other ranges, but
all have a start & end offset in the document.

An Excel spreadsheet is a collection of areas which are themselves
collections of rows and cells. So here a range is a box of cells.

For PPT though it seems like there is text, shapes, tables, etc. Is
there some clear explination of how best to view and access a PPT
presentation?

thanks - dave

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[Jean-Pierre Forestier [MVP[]

For me, PPT is a collection of objects (texts, shapes, multimedia...),
possibly animated and possibly linked

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Ultimately it is made of ones and zeros, just like every other computer
program, however, I'm guessing that won't help much.

There are 4 main levels (in my thinking) of PowerPoint
Application
Presentation
Slide
Shape

Within each of these levels, there are many options, side paths, and even a
few more sub-levels. This is why the Object model was suggested as a
reference.

This is the basic framework you can hang your thinking on.

Excel uses
Application
Workbook
Sheet
Cell

Word Uses
Application
Document
Paragraph
Word


--
Bill Dilworth

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