Extracting all text from a powerpoint file in VBA

Question

I have a huge set of powerpoint files from which I want to extract all the text and just lump it all into one big text file. Each source (PPT) file has multiple pages (slid

Answer 1

The following example shows code to loop through a list of files based on Otaku's code given above:

Sub test_click2()

Dim thePath As String
Dim src As String
Dim dst As String
Dim PPT As PowerPoint.Application
Dim p As PowerPoint.Presentation
Dim s As Slide
Dim sh As PowerPoint.Shape
Dim i As Integer
Dim f(10) As String

f(1) = "abc.pptx"
f(2) = "def.pptx"
f(3) = "ghi.pptx"

thePath = "C:\Work\Text parsing PPT\"

For i = 1 To 3
  src = thePath & f(i)
  dst = thePath & f(i) & ".txt"

  On Error Resume Next
  Kill dst
  Open dst For Output As #1
    Set PPT = CreateObject("PowerPoint.Application")
    PPT.Activate
    PPT.Visible = True
    'PPT.WindowState = ppWindowMinimized
    PPT.Presentations.Open filename:=src, ReadOnly:=True
    For Each s In PPT.ActivePresentation.Slides
        For Each sh In s.Shapes
            If sh.HasTextFrame Then
                If sh.TextFrame.HasText Then
                    Debug.Print sh.TextFrame.TextRange.Text
                End If
            End If
        Next
    Next
    PPT.ActivePresentation.Close
  Close #1
Next i
Set PPT = Nothing

End Sub