Macro to replace PowerPoint pictures from one set of slides to another

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I create many PPT with pictures (one picture per slide). Many times, I need to replace a series of pictures from one PPT to another PPT. I don’t want to change anything else on the “receiving” PPT. I need to keep all of the slide notes.

Here is what I need:

1. Go to “new” PPT – slide 1, copy the picture
2. Go to “current” PPT – slide 1, delete the current picture and paste the copied picture
3. Then go to slide 2, slide 3, etc. and do the same thing

Can a macro do this? Anyone have any existing code I can start with?

Many thanks!

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Can’t you just use ‘save as’ to the new PPT then edit as required? This will keep the notes as well.

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Thanks for your thought —but I need to replace the current picture with the new picture. This is typically about 20+ pictures per Presentation – so it is a lot of copying, deleting, and pasting back and forth. So it would be great to have a macro that would do this for me.

A different approach would be to have a macro that deletes all of the pictures for slides X1 to X20 and then insert selected slides from a directory (just need to make sure the new pictures completely scale to the slide.)

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Hey manray,

Can you provide me with the below details which will assist in a deciding a Macro build.

You said No. of Slides is 20[Is it fixed in both Presentations]
What is the Picture’s name in every slide is it static across all slides[Ex : Picture1] or does it vary across slides[Both Presentations]
are there multiple Pictures/Shapes in every slide[To identify the actual image to be copied]

If you can confirm the above, may be I can assist you with a Macro.

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Ravicious
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OK, sorry, I should have read your post more carefully.:huh:

Perhaps VBA would be the answer. I have experience in Access, but not PP, but there are guides like http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905465.aspx and http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00033_How_do_I_use_VBA_code_in_PowerPoint.htm.

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