Passing a variant through COM object via PowerShell to run a macro in PowerPoint

Question

Trying to string the title together was enough of a challenge...

I am trying to run some PowerPoint macros from PowerShell. I have gotten quite good at running macro

Answer 1

Maybe try removing the [ref] in the line of code below or try changing it to [val]

$PowerPoint.run("macros.pptm!IAM",[ref]"Feb")

So either:

$PowerPoint.run("macros.pptm!IAM","Feb")

or:

$PowerPoint.run("macros.pptm!IAM",[val]"Feb")

And then also make sure that the PowerPoint macro is expecting the variable to be passed ByVal. For example something like this:

Sub IAM(ByVal sMonthName As String)