PPT2000: Sample VBA Code to Create a Graph from a Text File

• Microsoft PowerPoint 2000

SUMMARY

This article provides a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro (Sub procedure) that creates a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that contains a Microsoft Graph object. The graph is created using data imported from a data file.

NOTE: This file must be in comma-separated values (CSV) format or tab-separated values format.

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Q230746 PPT: Viewer: Presentation Macros Don't Run

Sample Visual Basic Procedure

   Sub CreateGraphFromFile()

      Dim oGraph As Object
      Dim oDataSheet As Object
      Dim shpGraph As PowerPoint.Shape
      Dim lRowCnt As Long
      Dim lColCnt As Long
      Dim lValue As Long

      ' Add the graph to the slide.
      With ActivePresentation.Slides(1)
         ' Create the Graph object on the slide.
         Set shpGraph = .Shapes.AddOLEObject(ClassName:="MSGraph.Chart", _
                                           Link:=msoFalse)
      End With

      ' Set references.
      Set oGraph = shpGraph.OLEFormat.Object
      Set oDataSheet = oGraph.Application.DataSheet

      ' Place headers into data table.
      ' Create four column headers.
      oDataSheet.Cells(1, 2).Value = "Col1"
      oDataSheet.Cells(1, 3).Value = "Col2"
      oDataSheet.Cells(1, 4).Value = "Col3"
      oDataSheet.Cells(1, 5).Value = "Col4"

      ' Create four row headers.
      oDataSheet.Cells(2, 1).Value = "Row1"
      oDataSheet.Cells(3, 1).Value = "Row2"
      oDataSheet.Cells(4, 1).Value = "Row3"
      oDataSheet.Cells(5, 1).Value = "Row4"

      ' We already know the number of columns and rows
      ' from the data we are importing.
      Open "<YourPathAndFileNameHere>" For Input As #1

      ' Get four rows of data.
      For lRowCnt = 2 To 5
         For lColCnt = 2 To 5

            ' Get value from file.
            Input #1, lValue

            ' Place in data table.
            oDataSheet.Cells(lRowCnt, lColCnt).Value = lValue
         Next lColCnt
      Next lRowCnt
      Close #1

      ' Release the reference.
      Set oGraph = Nothing
      Set oDataSheet = Nothing

   End Sub 

REFERENCES

For more information about using the sample code in this article, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q212536 OFF2000: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

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Version : WINDOWS:2000
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