MATLAB: Copy & Paste of PowerPoint Slides in Matlab

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Hi there,

I have a PowerPoint template presentation consisting of one slide to which I would like to append several slides with Matlab figures. Hence, for each figure I want to copy and paste this slide and add the figure to the pasted one. Up to now I use an activexserver to open the presentation. I know how to select a slide and how to copy a figure to it, but I don't know how to copy and paste the slide itself.

Can anyone help me? And where can I find documentation for the possible activeX-commands for PowerPoint in Matlab? Searching with Google gives a lot of other ActiveX stuff, probably I used the wrong search items…

Thanks a lot it advance!

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I don't know of specific documentation examples for calling PowerPoint as a COM server from MATLAB (there are examples with Excel however), but there is at least one File Exchange submission that might be useful: saveppt

Also, here is the official PowerPoint COM API Reference. Once you are familiar with this API, using it in MATLAB is no different from using it in VBA.

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Hi,

As per my understanding you are trying to copy figure to clipboard and paste in PowerPoint slide. Here is a sample code to do this:

% Plot a figure. 
fig = figure(); 
plot(1:10, 2:2:20,'*b'); 
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% Assuming there is a PPT (with at least 1 slide) open 
activePPT = get(ppt, 'ActivePresentation'); 
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slides = activePPT.Slides; 
slide = slides.Item(1); % Select a slide 
slide.Select;                 
% Shapes 
shapes = slide.Shapes; 
shape = shapes.Item(2); % Select an area 
shape.Select;                           
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print(fig, '-clipboard', '-dmeta') 
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pasted_shape = shapes.PasteSpecial(2);

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I found a workaround in case anyone's interested... For some reason Ungroup only fails when the image is pasted into a newly created slide, but works fine if the image is pasted onto an existing slide. So the solution is to paste it into the last existing slide, ungroup it, create the new slide, cut the ungrouped ShapeRange and paste into the new slide... Here's the code:

function fig2ppt( h_mat )
%FIG2PPT Copy figure in h_mat and paste in currently open PowerPoint
%presentation. It will add a new slide at the end before pasting.
pp = actxserver('PowerPoint.Application');
pres = pp.Presentation.Item(1);
pres.Slides.AddSlide(pres.Slides.Count+1,pres.SlideMaster.CustomLayouts.Item(7));
print(h_mat,'-clipboard','-dmeta')
h_ppt = pres.Slides.Item(pres.Slides.Count-1).Shapes.Paste;
h_ppt.Align('msoAlignMiddles','msoTrue');
h_ppt.Align('msoAlignCenters','msoTrue');
h_ppt = h_ppt.Ungroup;
h_ppt.Cut;
pres.Slides.Item(pres.Slides.Count).Shapes.Paste;
delete(pp)
end

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