Replacing some text in PowerPoint

Question

I use Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint to replace some specific token at each slide from a *.pptx presentation.

The problem is that the text box in which the token resides has lines which are formatted in different ways (e.g. lines with different font size).

I actually tried doing the replacement by both

shape.TextFrame.TextRange.Text = strStartText + replacementString + strEndText;

and

shape.TextFrame.TextRange.Text = 
    shape.TextFrame.TextRange.Text.Replace(oldString, replacementString);

But it unifies and thus spoils all the formatting of my textbox. All the lines and words are now having the same size/colour etc.

Is there any solution to this?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 25 '11 at 00:34

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PowerPoint's .TextRange objects have a .Replace method that works similarly to VB/VBA's Replace command, but it preserves formatting.

Example, assuming you have a reference to the shape in the variable oSh:

With oSh
    With .TextFrame.TextRange
        .Replace findwhat:=oldString, replacewhat:= replacementString
    End With
End With

answered Jul 25 '11 at 00:34

Steve Rindsberg

VBA. Sorry, forgot to mention that you'd have to translate to .NETness, along the lines of ... = shape.TextFrame.TextRange.Replace(oldString, replacementString); In this case, TextRange.Replace is a method; it does the replacement directly on the object, unlike .Text.Replace, which returns a string but doesn't affect the .TextRange.Text – Steve Rindsberg Jul 25 '11 at 13:38

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