open

Class: mlreportgen.ppt.Presentation
Package: mlreportgen.ppt

Open presentation

Syntax

open(presentation)

Description

open(presentation) opens a presentation and parses the template.

Examples

Open a Presentation

Import the PPT package so that you do not have to use long, fully qualified names for the PPT API classes.

import mlreportgen.ppt.*

Create a presentation.

ppt = Presentation('myPresentation.pptx');

Open the presentation.

open(ppt);

Add a title slide to the presentation.

slide = add(ppt,'Title Slide');
replace(slide,'Title','My Title');

Close and view the presentation.

close(ppt);
rptview(ppt);

Input Arguments

presentation — Presentation to open

mlreportgen.ppt.Presentation object

Presentation to open, specified as an mlreportgen.ppt.Presentation object.

Tips

• To create a copy of the PPT API default template for customization, you can create a presentation and open and close the presentation without adding any slides.