copying to powerpoint...error message

[Jay]

I execute the following code and the error message "View.Paste: Invalid
request. Clipboard is empty or contains data which may not be pasted here."

Can anyone figure out why this is happening? Thanks. Here's my code, just
assume the variable rngPicture is a range of cells in Excel.

Dim P As Object
Dim SI As Long
Dim S As Object

Set P = app.Presentations.Open(Filename:=strFile, ReadOnly:=msoFalse)
'copy the first slide in the powerpoint presentation
SI = P.Slides(1).Duplicate.SlideIndex
'set the slide object S equal to the newly added slide
Set S = P.Slides(SI)
S.Select
rng.CopyPicture
S.Application.ActiveWindow.View.Paste

 

[Barb Reinhardt]

Try something like this
Dim S as Slide

S.Shapes.Paste.Select

I have this in my code, but I'm guessing I don't need the Select

 

[Barb Reinhardt]

And change This
Dim P as PowerPoint.Presentation

 

[Barb Reinhardt]

Oops.

Dim S as PowerPoint.Slide

You'll need to select PowerPoint in your references as well so that this
will work.

 

[Jay]

Barb, thanks I'll try that; however, in a recent post I asked a question
about why my PowerPoint wasn't working on someone else's PC and the work
around was to use "late binding" where I declare the variables as
objects...this worked and the code was able to function on the other's PC.
I'll at least give this a shot.

Thanks.

 

[Jay]

Barb,

This worked, even keeping the powerpoint objects defined as generic objects.
The difference was in using Shapes.Paste instead of View.Paste...I think
this is much better. Thanks again.

Jay