Re: Problem with OLE and Powerpoint 2003

The following worked for me under Office 2003.

use Win32::OLE qw/ in /;

my $file = 'C:\Documents and Settings\jim\My Documents\perlmonks_examp
+les\sample.ppt';

my $ppt = Win32::OLE->new('PowerPoint.Application', sub {$_[0]->Quit;}
+);
$ppt->{Visible} = 1;

my $presentation = $ppt->Presentations->Open($file);
die "Cannot open File '$file': $! " unless (  $presentation );


my $slide = $presentation->slides(1);
foreach my $shape ( in $slide->Shapes )
{
 if ($shape->TextFrame->HasText)
 {
  print "Text:",  $shape->TextFrame->{TextRange}->{Text} , "\n";
 }
}


__DATA__

Text:This is the sample title
Text:This is the sample text.
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... where I had a simple, one-slide PPT with a title "This is the sample title" and a text box with "THis is the Sample Text"

The issue may be that the "Shapes" method returns a collection of shapes, and your indexing of it ($slide->shapes($shapeNumber)) may not work under Office 2003. That's only a guess


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