Hi Steve,

Below is my excel macro code which open the powerpoint application of
previous week then delete the existing pictures and copy the new pictures
from excel sheet, till here its working fine for me , but after doing all
these things i need my excel macro to add text box to ppt slide and type a
text given by me.

Dim PPApp As PowerPoint.Application
Dim PPPres As PowerPoint.Presentation
Dim PPSlide As PowerPoint.Slide
Dim slidecount As Long
Dim ans
Dim answer As String
Dim RangetoPaste As Range
Dim PPShape As Shape

'Open ppt file
Set PPApp = CreateObject("PowerPoint.Application")
PPApp.Visible = True
Set PPPres = PPApp.Presentations.Open("C:\Ranjith
Report\AR\Top5\Macro\Business Direct- Business Review.ppt",
ReadOnly:=msoFalse)

Set PPApp = GetObject(, "Powerpoint.Application")
Set PPPres = PPApp.ActivePresentation
PPApp.ActiveWindow.View.GotoSlide 1
PPApp.ActiveWindow.ViewType = ppViewSlide

PPApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.sliderange.Shapes.Sel ectAll
PPApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.Delete

slidecount = PPPres.slides.Count
Set PPSlide =
PPPres.slides(PPApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.slidera nge.SlideIndex)
Selection.CopyPicture Appearance:=xlScreen, _
Format:=xlBitmap
PPSlide.Shapes.Paste.Select

PPApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.Align msoAlignCenters, True
PPApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.Align msoAlignmiddle, True

PPApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.IncrementL eft -28.5
PPApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.IncrementT op -148.62
PPApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.ScaleWidth 0.96, msoFalse,
msoScaleFromTopLeft
PPApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.ScaleWidth 0.97, msoFalse,
msoScaleFromBottomRight
PPApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.ScaleHeigh t 1.46, msoFalse,
msoScaleFromTopLeft

'OtherPart

Windows("Regional Graphs Presentation.xls").Activate
Sheets("Billing-Not Paying Top 5").Select
Range("B4:J10").Select
Selection.EntireColumn.Hidden = True
Range("A4").Select
Range(Selection, Selection.End(xlToRight)).Select
Range(Selection, Selection.End(xlDown)).Select
Selection.Copy

Set PPApp = GetObject(, "Powerpoint.Application")
Set PPPres = PPApp.ActivePresentation
PPApp.ActiveWindow.View.GotoSlide 1
PPApp.ActiveWindow.ViewType = ppViewSlide

slidecount = PPPres.slides.Count
Set PPSlide =
PPPres.slides(PPApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.slidera nge.SlideIndex)
Selection.CopyPicture Appearance:=xlScreen, _
Format:=xlBitmap
PPSlide.Shapes.Paste.Select

PPApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.Align msoAlignCenters, True
PPApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.Align msoAlignmiddle, True

PPApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.IncrementL eft 56.75
PPApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.IncrementT op 124.12
PPApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.ScaleWidth 1.18, msoFalse,
msoScaleFromTopLeft
PPApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.Align msoAlignCenters, True
'PPApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.ScaleWidt h 1.06, msoFalse,
msoScaleFromBottomRight
PPApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.ScaleHeigh t 1.39, msoFalse,
msoScaleFromTopLeft

"Steve Yandl" wrote:

When you write ActiveWindow.Selection....inside VBA running from an Excel
workbook, the 'ActiveWindow' is the active window for Excel, not your
PowerPoint presentation. You're not showing enough of your code to make any
specific suggestions.

Steve



"Ranjit kurian" wrote in message
...
Hi

I have created a excel vb code to copy the pivots from excel to powerpoint
slide.

The problem iam facing is, unable to create a Textbox in the same active
powerpoint slide.

Could you please help me to write an excel vb code in excel, so that i can
add a text box to the active window powerpoint slide.

Below is the code i tried in excel macro,

while running its asking for an object.

Dim PPApp As PowerPoint.Application
Dim PPPres As PowerPoint.Presentation
Dim PPSlide As PowerPoint.Slide
Dim slidecount As Long
Dim ans
Dim answer As String
Dim RangetoPaste As Range
Dim PPShape As Shape

ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.Shapes.AddTextbo xmsoTextOrientationHorizontal,
50, 50, 400, 24).Select
ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.TextFrame.Wordwr ap