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Melendowski
Melendowski

Reputation: 454

All slide master placeholders default to type 14

I am playing around with using win32com to create power points programmatically. I have a issue when snooping around in the slide master.

Open a power point, go to

Home -> Editing -> Select -> Selection Pane

Then do

View -> Slide Master

I deleted all the contents of layout 1 and inserted a picture placeholder as shown below

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import win32com.client
pp = win32com.client.Dispatch("PowerPoint.Application")
pres = pp.Presentations.Open("<your pptx file name>.pptx")
design = pres.Designs
design = pres.Designs(1)
master = design.SlideMaster
layouts = master.CustomLayouts
>>> layouts(1).shapes(1).Type
14 
>>> layouts(1).shapes(1).Name
'Picture Placeholder 7

My issue is that the Type enumeration, which I reference here, 14 is for ppPlaceholderHeader. Why is it not ppPlaceholderPicture? I.e. a Type of 18.

Perhaps I am navigating incorrectly and looking at wrong objects?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 341

Answers (1)

Steve Rindsberg
Steve Rindsberg

Reputation: 14809

ALL placeholders are Type 14 objects. If you want to know the type of placeholder, use:

.PlaceholderFormat.Type

Upvotes: 1

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