What is a PPT presentation & slide composed of?

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


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Bill Dilworth

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