When I try to use UI Automation for PowerPoint 2013, I can only get the first character/word when I use RangeFromPoint

Question

The code works for Word and Outlook but fails with PowerPoint in that only the first character or first word of the textbox ever gets selected. Is this a bug? Is there any w

Answer 1

I can suggest only Python code getting caption text of the slide (for example). Sorry, I have no time to re-write it on C#. You can play with the PowerPoint.Application COM object and MSDN example of Power Point automation.

from __future__ import print_function
import win32com.client as com
pp = com.Dispatch('PowerPoint.Application')
print(pp.Presentations[0].Slides[8].Shapes[0].TextFrame.TextRange.Text)