MATLAB controls and writes PowerPoint

MATLAB as a COM client, Microsoft PowerPoint (or any Office 2003 application) as a COM server

Description

The MATLAB functions XLSREAD and XLSWRITE open Microsoft Excel as a COM Automation Server in the background, and read or write data. Using the same mechanism, it is possible to open, write to, and fully control Microsoft PowerPoint from MATLAB. The advantage is that from a single tool, both the data analysis and the presentation creation can be scripted.

This is the same functionality used in Mark Brown's submission referenced below. Mark Brown's "saveppt.m" is a cleanly packaged solution, whereas this submission is an open script intended to show what's going on, and empower users to create their own customized "pptwrite" functions.

Acknowledgements

The author wishes to acknowledge the following in the creation of this submission:
saveppt

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.4 (R2007a)
• Other requirements: Windows only

[Andres]

Very helpful demo script to get started. Thanks!

[Rodrigo Carvallo]

Im a begginner using matlab and im interested in writting ppts from matlab 6.5 to microsoft ppt 2003.
I tried with this code but i couldnt do it. Someone knows how to use this code in 6.5. Do you have to change some lines of the code or something else to have success using this?
Is there another useful code to write ppt 2003 from matlab 6.5?

Thanks in Advance

[Van]

This code easily works, but for Office 2010, it fails.