MATLAB: How to access a certain line or box in powerpoint via Matlab

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in Matlab help, there is an unclear example , that I could not understand whether I should write the name of a paragraph, or its label or what , to change its font etc.

import mlreporgen.ppt.*
p = Paragraph('Model Highlights');
p.Style = [p.Style {FontColor('red'),Bold(true)}];

what is 'Model Highlights' ? is it a paragraph? is it a line ? is it a lable ? how should I know ? what are the other useful commands ? where do I find all of them ?

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farzad - from mlreportgen.ppt.Paragraph class,

paragraphObj = Paragraph(text) creates a paragraph that contains a mlreportgen.ppt.Text object with the text specified by text.

So the p in your above code is a paragraph with the text "Model Highlights". See Add and Replace Presentation Content for details.

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To change the full chapter title including the "Chapter X" and the Title:

1. Save a default Chapter template by executing the following line of code:

>> template = mlreportgen.report.Chapter.createTemplate('customChapterStyle.pdftx','pdf')

2. Unzip the PDFTX-file to make edits:

>> unzipTemplate('customChapterStyle.pdftx')

3. In the unzipped "customChapterStyle" folder, open the stylesheet "root.css":

4. Make edits as desired and then save the css file. For example:

h1.SectionTitle1, p.SectionTitle1 {
    font-family: 'Times New Roman';
    font-size: 40pt;
    margin-top: 25pt;
    font-weight:bold;
    margin-bottom: 10pt;
    color: red;
    white-space: pre;
    -fo-keep-with-next.within-page: always;
}

5. Rezip the PDFTX by executing the following code:

>> zipTemplate('customChapterStyle.pdftx')

6. Go to the script creating the Report and find where the chapter is being created. Set the chapter property of TemplateSrc to the proper file path:

>> ch1 = Chapter
>> ch1.TemplateSrc = 'customChapterStyle.pdftx'

The above changes the style of the full title: Chapter X. Title Text

To remove the component "Chapter X." and just include the Title Text:

>> ch1. Numbered = false;

To include the "Chapter X", but give the Title Text a different font:

1. Make the chapter title a mlreportgen.dom.Text object:

>> ch1title = Text('Change Chapter Title Font');

2. Define the properties of the Text object:

>> fontFamily = FontFamily('Arial');
>> fontSizeObj = FontSize('25px');
>> ch1title.Style = {fontFamily, fontSizeObj};
>> ch1title.Color = 'blue';

Attached is an example that generates a PDF report with the Chapter X. and Title Text reformatted.

MATLAB: How to adjust font styling on a powerpoint slide using MATLAB Report Generator

Instead of using the replace function to add the title, create the title using paragraph, perform the proper styling, then use "replace" to add it to the title of the slide.

For example, here we make the slideTitle blue and size 10, and THEN add it to the title section of the slide.

pre = Presentation('Test');
slide = add(pre, 'Title and Content');
slideTitle = Paragraph('Test title');
slideTitle.FontColor = 'blue'
slideTitle.FontSize = '10'
contents = find(slide,'Title');
replace(contents(1),slideTitle);

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