Powerpoint 2007 textframe.autosize
Hi,
I am have a VBA script to generate a powerpoint slideshow from data in a SQL Server. It works perfectly on office 2000 and 2003 but not with office 2007. After some debugging it appears to me that the offending line is when i set the textframe.autosize property.
After looking through the msdn library I noticed that there is no Powerpoint reference manual under 2007 office suites.
Can anyone point in in the right direction on this one?
Thanks
Hi,
You do not say what the actual problem or error is. Or what code you are using.
I did notice from my very limited testing that the width of the textbox does not appear to be automatic.
Hi Andy,
I'm using the following code
Set PowerpointApplication = CreateObject("PowerPoint.Application")
Set ThisPresentation = PowerpointApplication.Presentations.Add
Set ThisSlide = ThisPresentation.Slides.Add(1, 12)
ThisSlide.Shapes.AddShape 1, 0, 0, 720, 50
ThisSlide.Shapes(1).Name = "SlideHeader"
ThisSlide.Shapes("SlideHeader").Fill.Forecolor.RGB = RGB(128,128,128)
Set ThisTextShape = ThisSlide.Shapes.AddTextBox(1, 0, 30, 350, 50)
ThisTextShape.TextFrame.TextRange.Text = "Owner: John Doe"
ThisTextShape.TextFrame.TextRange.Font.Name="Arial"
ThisTextShape.TextFrame.TextRange.Font.Size=10
ThisTextShape.TextFrame.Autosize=2
ThisTextShape.TextFrame.TextRange.Font.Color.RGB = RGB(255, 255, 255)
ThisTextShape.TextFrame.TextRange.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = 1
if i take out the textframe.autosize it works with powerpoint 2007 but looks terrible. it all works in office 2003, xp, 2000
how come microsoft do not have a development reference for powerpoint 2007 on msdn?
Thanks again
I am experiencing a similar issue with our software application which uses OLE/COM to export our document content into PPT file format.
Our export routines are implemented using C++ and when we invoke the TextFrame.AutoSize( ppAutoSizeShapeToFitText ) call with PowerPoint 2007, we receive a "The specified value is out of range" error.
The PPT constants defined as valid arguments for AutoSize are:
typedef enum {
ppAutoSizeMixed = -2,
ppAutoSizeNone = 0,
ppAutoSizeShapeToFitText = 1
} PpAutoSize;
and have worked fine with all prior versions of Office, but not with Office 2007.
I have used the OLE/COM Object Viewer to look at the interface specification in the MSPPT.OLB file which is part of the Office 12/2007 distribution and the ppAutoSize constants are defined exactly as above, so I am starting to think that this is a Microsoft bug in PowerPoint 2007.
boland0980, were you able to resolve this issue?
I did notice that you were setting AutoSize to 2, did you try using any other values, e.g. -2, 0 or 1?
Has anyone else experienced a similar problem with TextFrame.AutoSize?
Even I am recieving the same error while it is working fine with 2003 Object model.
When I do
Private moPowerPointApp As Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint.Application
moPowerPointApp
.ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.Characters.CountAbove line gives an error called "The specified value is out of range." when the selection is made in a table object present in one of the ppt slide.
And above is working fine when I use 2003 object model.
Is there some substitute for the above change?
Its urgent. any help will subtract my problem.
Thanks!!!
