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Andry
Andry

Reputation: 16845

How to get PowerPoint current slide index in Office Add-In API?

I'm developing an Office Add-In for Power Point. An example from the documentation about how to change slide is:

function goToSlideByIndex() {
    var goToNext = Office.Index.Next;

    Office.context.document.goToByIdAsync(goToNext, Office.GoToType.Index, function (asyncResult) {
        if (asyncResult.status == "failed") {
            showMessage("Action failed with error: " + asyncResult.error.message);
        }
        else {
            showMessage("Navigation successful");
        }
    });
}

However, with this API I want to get the current slide id. Seems like there is no such a function in the Office-JS API.

How do I get this information?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1624

Answers (1)

Fei Xue
Fei Xue

Reputation: 14649

We can get the current index of active slide via using the document.getSelectedDataAsync method. Here is an example for your reference:

Office.context.document.getSelectedDataAsync(Office.CoercionType.SlideRange, function (asyncResult) {
            if (asyncResult.status == "failed") {
                app.showNotification("Action failed with error: " + asyncResult.error.message);
            }
            else {

                app.showNotification(asyncResult.value.slides[0].index);
            }
        });

Note, the function is an asynchronous method. The result maybe not expected when you change the slide quickly after you call this method

Upvotes: 2

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