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DevTycoon

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Hello, the artomator speaking here.

I am looking to solve a well known problem of template placeholders not mapping to shapes using out of the box VBA. In general I would like a user to be able to "upload" their power point file containing formatted master slides only (basically a blank presentation) to MS Access where the slide configuration for the layouts are stripped out of the master slides. The "uploaded" file would basically just be used as a template to create presentations from and reside in the same project folder as the access app.

Additionally the Access user could manage the power point slide content from a tree view control in access. Since the custom layouts are relatively static, I was thinking a form for each custom slide layout would basically let the user manufacture a standard Power Point from Access where each form control has the ability to map to a slide template shape. :D

Anyone have ideas or source for a similar project? I will share my solution once I can crack the code. Peace!
 

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I realise DevTycoon is already aware of this link, but for the benefit of others, see
https://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/showpost.php?p=1517003&postcount=9

AWF member, JHB , did some very clever stuff exporting Access charts into PowerPoint. As I said in another recent post, any clunkiness in the database is due to the OP of that thread and not the code added by JHB
 

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Yep, something like that. I am using custom layouts so the enumerated layout types don't work too well. I know you can make custom classes that can have user-defined enumerations. Any ideas for something like that?
 

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