export all text from slides

[Guest]

i have the below code. Only problem is it gives me slide1 title text and
slide168 title text. if i replace
"& oSlide.Shapes.Title.TextFrame.TextRange.Text _"
with
& oSlide.Shapes("Rectangle 2").TextFrame.TextRange.Text _

it gives me all the stuff on any slide with a group type or shape of
"Rectangle 2". thats about the extent to which i know how this code
works...thanks!

**********************code starts here
Sub GatherTitles()

On Error GoTo ErrorHandler

Dim oSlide As Slide
Dim strTitles As String
Dim strFilename As String
Dim intFileNum As Integer
Dim PathSep As String


If ActivePresentation.Path = "" Then
MsgBox "Please save the presentation then try again"
Exit Sub
End If

#If Mac Then
PathSep = ":"
#Else
PathSep = "\"
#End If

On Error Resume Next ' in case there's no title placeholder on the slide


For Each oSlide In ActiveWindow.Presentation.Slides
strTitles = strTitles _
& "Slide: " _
& CStr(oSlide.SlideIndex) & vbCrLf _
& oSlide.Shapes.Title.TextFrame.TextRange.Text _
& vbCrLf & vbCrLf
'& oSlide.Shapes.Title.TextFrame.TextRange.Text
Next oSlide



On Error GoTo ErrorHandler

intFileNum = FreeFile

' PC-Centricity Alert!
' This assumes that the file has a .PPT extension and strips it off to make
the text file name.
strFilename = ActivePresentation.Path _
& PathSep _
& Mid$(ActivePresentation.Name, 1, Len(ActivePresentation.Name) - 4) _
& "_Titles.TXT"

Open strFilename For Output As intFileNum
Print #intFileNum, strTitles

NormalExit:
Close intFileNum
Exit Sub

ErrorHandler:
MsgBox Err.Description
Resume NormalExit

End Sub

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

i have the below code. Only problem is it gives me slide1 title text and
slide168 title text. if i replace
"& oSlide.Shapes.Title.TextFrame.TextRange.Text _"
with
& oSlide.Shapes("Rectangle 2").TextFrame.TextRange.Text _

it gives me all the stuff on any slide with a group type or shape of
"Rectangle 2". thats about the extent to which i know how this code
works...thanks!

Do the slides in question have body and title text placeholders? That is, if
you look at them in outline view, do you see the text there as well?

 

[Guest]

in outline view there is no text. i kinda got it to work well enough to
paste in excel and mess with it there... http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00274.htm
its the last part of this page where it uses a second function to get the
text out of groups as well...

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

in outline view there is no text.

OK, that's why it didn't work. The routine only picks up text from the title and
body text placeholders. I was going to suggest that other routine instead, but
you're way ahead of me.

i kinda got it to work well enough to