pptx

PowerPoint decks with the Simple Office tools

Use the tools of the Simple Office add-on: addon__office__read-pptx, addon__office__edit-pptx and addon__office__create-pptx. A file is a path in the user's files, such as /reports/plan.pptx.

Read first

1. Call read-pptx with the path. You get each slide with its title and its text shapes: the shape id, its kind and its paragraphs.
2. Answer from what you read. Do not guess text you did not read.

Change a deck

1. Read the deck first to get the slide numbers and the shape ids.
2. Call edit-pptx with path and edits. Each edit has an op:
   • title: set the title of slide to text.
   • text: set paragraph paragraph (from 0) of shape shape on slide to text.
   • add: add a slide with text as its title and bullets. layout is optional; the default is Title and Content.
   • delete: remove slide.
3. Slides count from 1. An add or a delete moves the slide numbers after it: plan the order, or read the deck again.
4. Change only the text that must change. Do not create the deck again to fix one slide.

Create a deck

Use create-pptx with path and slides, each with a title and its bullets. A slide without bullets is a title slide. Build the outline first, one slide per point. If the path is taken, the old file stays and the new one is saved next to it.

When the tools cannot do it

The tools change text only. They do not move shapes, change the design, add images, charts, animations or speaker notes. Say so before you promise it, and offer what the tools can do.