Copy & Pasting multiple Excel Ranges to Seperate Powerpoint Slides with VBA

[LauraBlair]

Hi all,

I am hoping i can get some assistance with this code. I have found the below code from The Spreadsheet Guru to copy ranges from 2 separate sheets in Excel and paste them into separate slides in PowerPoint, but i cannot get the *Paste to PowerPoint and Position Working, i have edited the slides required and the ranges. This error is displayed when run "Slides item: Integer out of range. 2 is not in index's valid range of 1 to 1".

Thank you in advance.

Sub PasteMultipleSlides()
'PURPOSE: Copy Excel Ranges and Paste them into the Active PowerPoint presentation slides
'SOURCE: www.TheSpreadsheetGuru.com

Dim myPresentation As Object
Dim mySlide As Object
Dim PowerPointApp As Object
Dim shp As Object
Dim MySlideArray As Variant
Dim MyRangeArray As Variant
Dim x As Long

'Create an Instance of PowerPoint
  On Error Resume Next
    
    'Is PowerPoint already opened?
      Set PowerPointApp = GetObject(class:="PowerPoint.Application")
    
    'Clear the error between errors
      Err.Clear

    'If PowerPoint is not already open then Exit
      If PowerPointApp Is Nothing Then
        MsgBox "PowerPoint Presentation is not open, aborting."
        Exit Sub
      End If
    
    'Handle if the PowerPoint Application is not found
      If Err.Number = 429 Then
        MsgBox "PowerPoint could not be found, aborting."
        Exit Sub
      End If

  On Error GoTo 0
  
'Make PowerPoint Visible and Active
  PowerPointApp.ActiveWindow.Panes(2).Activate
    
'Create a New Presentation
  Set myPresentation = PowerPointApp.ActivePresentation

'List of PPT Slides to Paste to
  MySlideArray = Array(2, 3)

'List of Excel Ranges to Copy from
    MyRangeArray = Array(Sheet1.Range("A1:BN24"), Sheet1.Range("A1:F17"))

'Loop through Array data
  For x = LBound(MySlideArray) To UBound(MySlideArray)
    'Copy Excel Range
        MyRangeArray(x).Copy
    
    'Paste to PowerPoint and position (This is what i cant get to work)
      On Error Resume Next
        Set shp = myPresentation.Slides(MySlideArray(x)).Shapes.PasteSpecial(DataType:=2) 'Excel 2007-2010
        Set shp = PowerPointApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange 'Excel 2013
      On Error GoTo 0
    
    'Center Object
      With myPresentation.PageSetup
        shp.Left = (.SlideWidth \ 2) - (shp.Width \ 2)
        shp.Top = (.SlideHeight \ 2) - (shp.Height \ 2)
      End With
      
  Next x

'Transfer Complete
  Application.CutCopyMode = False
  ThisWorkbook.Activate
  MsgBox "Complete!"
End Sub

 

[Domenic]

The error means that the active presentation does not contain a second slide. And, by extension, doesn't contain a third one either.

 

[LauraBlair]

The error means that the active presentation does not contain a second slide. And, by extension, doesn't contain a third one either.

Thanks Domenic. Could you please point me in the right direction as to how to add additional slides to the active presentation in my code? Sorry, still trying to learn the ropes of VBA. Thank you

 

[Domenic]

To add a new slide and then paste to it, try replacing...

    'Paste to PowerPoint and position (This is what i cant get to work)
      On Error Resume Next
        Set shp = myPresentation.Slides(MySlideArray(x)).Shapes.PasteSpecial(DataType:=2) 'Excel 2007-2010
        Set shp = PowerPointApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange 'Excel 2013
      On Error GoTo 0

with

        'Add a new slide
        Set mySlide = myPresentation.Slides.Add(myPresentation.Slides.Count + 1, 32) 'ppLayoutCustom
       
        'Paste object
        Set shp = mySlide.Shapes.PasteSpecial(DataType:=2)

For other types of slide layouts, have a look here...

PpSlideLayout enumeration (PowerPoint)

Office VBA reference topic

docs.microsoft.com

Hope this helps!

 

[LauraBlair]

To add a new slide and then paste to it, try replacing...

    'Paste to PowerPoint and position (This is what i cant get to work)
      On Error Resume Next
        Set shp = myPresentation.Slides(MySlideArray(x)).Shapes.PasteSpecial(DataType:=2) 'Excel 2007-2010
        Set shp = PowerPointApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange 'Excel 2013
      On Error GoTo 0

with

        'Add a new slide
        Set mySlide = myPresentation.Slides.Add(myPresentation.Slides.Count + 1, 32) 'ppLayoutCustom
      
        'Paste object
        Set shp = mySlide.Shapes.PasteSpecial(DataType:=2)

For other types of slide layouts, have a look here...

PpSlideLayout enumeration (PowerPoint)

Office VBA reference topic

docs.microsoft.com

Hope this helps!

Thank you Domenic, works great.

Just a question which you can probably help me with, this code you need to have PowerPoint open to run, and when you open PowerPoint up, a title page is there. When the macro runs, it adds 2 slides after the title page, can the macro either delete the title page within the macro, or use the title page with the first paste, and then add 1 slide for the second paste so only 2 slides all up?

Thank you again, you are a life saver.

 

[Domenic]

To delete the first slide from your presentation, simply add the following line after your For/Next loop, which adds your two slides...

    myPresentation.Slides(1).Delete

 

[LauraBlair]

To delete the first slide from your presentation, simply add the following line after your For/Next loop, which adds your two slides...

    myPresentation.Slides(1).Delete

Thanks so much Domenic

 

[Domenic]

You're very welcome, glad I could help.

Cheers!