How to access a certain line or box in powerpoint via Matlab ?

Hi All

in Matlab help, there is an unclear example , that I could not understand whether I should write the name of a paragraph, or its label or what , to change its font etc.

import mlreporgen.ppt.*

p = Paragraph('Model Highlights');
p.Style = [p.Style {FontColor('red'),Bold(true)}];

what is 'Model Highlights' ? is it a paragraph? is it a line ? is it a lable ? how should I know ? what are the other useful commands ? where do I find all of them ?

Answer 1

[Geoff Hayes]

farzad - from mlreportgen.ppt.Paragraph class,

paragraphObj = Paragraph(text) creates a paragraph that contains a mlreportgen.ppt.Text object with the text specified by text.

So the p in your above code is a paragraph with the text "Model Highlights". See Add and Replace Presentation Content for details.

[farzad]

Thank you very much.

Well I tried

slide = add(pre, 'Title and Content');
replace(slide, 'Title', fname);
p = Paragraph(fname);
p.Style = [p.Style {FontColor('red'),Bold(true)}];

but nothing happens to the font color . also , is FontSize a valid function ? I did not find it in help

[Geoff Hayes]

Try the approach outlined here Format Properties with the example

import mlreportgen.ppt.*

p = Paragraph('My paragraph');
p.FontColor = 'red';
p.Font = 'Arial';
p.FontSize = '18pt';

It may be that the FontColor isn't supported on all platforms. (This is a guess as I have never used this functionality.)

[farzad]

thank you very much for the links. ok now I know the list of properties. my problem though, is that this is not applied to the slides when I try.

for example I tried to bring p=Paragraph before replace command. but still did not work. but

slide = add(pre, 'Title and Content');
p = Paragraph(fname);
p.Style = [p.Style {FontColor('red'),Bold(true)}];    
replace(slide, 'Title', fname); 

It's still not working despite in this link it's advised to be this way :

Create an mlreportgen.ppt.Paragraph object to use for the title. Make the text bold and red.

p = Paragraph('My Title');
p.Bold = true;
p.FontColor = 'red';

Replace the title for the first slide with the paragraph:

contents = find(ppt,'Title');
replace(contents(1),p);

[Geoff Hayes]

Please clarify what you mean by did not work. What are the results? What should be happening?

[farzad]

dear Geof, I mean it was just not changing the font, but I figured it out to make it work. I had to replace it with p

[Geoff Hayes]

great - glad it worked out, farzad!