Integrate Charts from Multiple Workbooks / Worksheets in to One Workbook / Multiple Sheets

[Mississippi Girl]

You know how someone asks you to do something, you do it, and then they ask you to do what they REALLY wanted in the first place? That's happening to me and now that I know what they REALLY want, I'm stuck. So, this is the story:

We have a presentation that is given every month. The presentation is currently populated by manually going to multiple Excel workbooks (with mulitple tabs) that are updated monthly and copy/pasting charts in to PowerPoint. The chart order is different from the order of the spreadsheets, the order of the charts cannot change and for whatever weird management reason, the worksheets cannot be reordered to match the order of the presentation.

I found a super cool macro the other day that I posted that goes through each chart object on each worksheet in a workbook and copy/pastes in to PowerPoint. It works great, but the copy/paste in to PowerPoint matches the sheet order; I need to be able to define the order by the worksheet tab name if that's possible. The other issue I'm running in to is the use of multiple workbooks....

So Excel and PowerPoint Super Heroes - what do you suggest as my best course of action? Make a master Excel file that contains all of my chart objects, then use my super cool macro mentioned above to create the integrated PowerPoint presentation? Or, would it be easier to use the excel macro on each of my four workbooks, then create a PowerPoint macro to integrate and reorder the slide presenation?

In case my ramblings above aren't clear, this is the desired result:

copy / paste chart objects from 4 different workbook files (with mulitple sheets in each) in to a PowerPoint presentation, in a specific order.

Any thoughts, ideas, comments are appreciated.

Here's the code I posted the other day that loops through each worksheet in a workbook and copy/pastes the chart objects in to a pre-determined PowerPoint file. I made some adjustments to the original code to get the formats, sizes, and to define the pre-determined PowerPoint presenation file name. Everything else was created by the author cited in the code:

Option Explicit

'Both subs require a reference to Microsoft PowerPoint xx.x Object Library.
'where xx.x is your office version (11.0 = 2003, 12.0 = 2007 and 14.0 = 2010).

'Declaring the necessary Power Point variables (are used in both subs).
Dim pptApp As PowerPoint.Application
Dim pptPres As PowerPoint.Presentation
Dim pptSlide As PowerPoint.Slide
Dim pptSlideCount As Integer

Sub ChartsToPowerPoint()

    'Exports all the chart sheets to a new power point presentation.
    'It also adds a text box with the chart title.
    
    'By Christos Samaras
    'http://www.myengineeringworld.net
    
    Dim ws As Worksheet
    Dim intChNum As Integer
    Dim objCh As Object
    Dim x As Long
        
    'Count the embedded charts.
    For Each ws In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets
        intChNum = intChNum + ws.ChartObjects.Count
    Next ws
    
    'Check if there are chart (embedded or not) in the active workbook.
    If intChNum + ActiveWorkbook.Charts.Count < 1 Then
        MsgBox "Sorry, there are no charts to export!", vbCritical, "Ops"
        Exit Sub
    End If
    
    'Open PowerPoint and create a new presentation.
    Set pptApp = New PowerPoint.Application
    Set pptPres = pptApp.Presentations.Open("C:\Users\kdrieber\Documents\CFO Template.pptx")
        For x = pptPres.Slides.Count To 1 Step -1
            pptPres.Slides(x).Delete
        Next x
            

    
    'Loop through all the embedded charts in all worksheets.
    For Each ws In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets
        For Each objCh In ws.ChartObjects
            Call pptFormat(objCh.Chart)
        Next objCh
    Next ws
    
    'Loop through all the chart sheets.
    For Each objCh In ActiveWorkbook.Charts
        Call pptFormat(objCh)
    Next objCh
    
    'Show the power point.
    pptApp.Visible = True

    'Cleanup the objects.
    Set pptSlide = Nothing
    Set pptPres = Nothing
    Set pptApp = Nothing
    
    'Infrom the user that the macro finished.
    MsgBox "Dude, you're done copying the charts!", vbInformation, "Done"
    
End Sub

Private Sub pptFormat(xlCh As Chart)
    
    'Formats the charts/pictures and the chart titles/textboxes.
    
    'By Christos Samaras
    'http://www.myengineeringworld.net
    
    Dim chTitle As String
    Dim j As Integer
    
    On Error Resume Next
   'Get the chart title and copy the chart area.
    chTitle = xlCh.ChartTitle.Text
    xlCh.ChartArea.Copy

    'Count the slides and add a new one after the last slide.
    pptSlideCount = pptPres.Slides.Count
    Set pptSlide = pptPres.Slides.Add(pptSlideCount + 1, ppLayoutBlank)
    
    'Paste the chart and create a new textbox.
    pptSlide.Shapes.PasteSpecial ppPasteJPG
    If chTitle <> "" Then
        pptSlide.Shapes.AddTextbox msoTextOrientationHorizontal, 12.24, 7.19, 694.75, 55.25
    End If
                    
    'Format the picture and the textbox.
    For j = 1 To pptSlide.Shapes.Count
        With pptSlide.Shapes(j)
            'Picture position.
            If .Type = msoPicture Then
                .Top = 60
                .Left = 0
                .Height = 342
                .Width = 720
                
            End If
            'Text box position and format.
            If .Type = msoTextBox Then
                With .TextFrame.TextRange
                    .ParagraphFormat.Alignment = ppAlignCenter
                    .Text = chTitle
                    .Font.Name = "Tahoma (Headings)"
                    .Font.Size = 28
                    .Font.Color = -7658974
                    .Font.Bold = msoTrue
                End With
            End If
        End With
    Next j

End Sub