Create Presentation Objects

Create and format text, paragraph, table, link and picture objects

You can add presentation content objects, such as text, tables, and pictures, to a presentation. You can format those content objects by defining styles that use format objects specific to the type of content object. Also, you can specify formats using content object formatting properties. To get started, see Add and Replace Presentation Content.

Functions

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Add and Clone Content

`add`	Add paragraph to text box
`append`	Append content to paragraph
`clone`	Copy PPT API paragraph (Since R2021b)
`append`	Append row to table
`append`	Append table entry to table row
`append`	Append text or paragraph to table entry

Replace Content

`replace`	Replace text box paragraphs
`replace`	Replace picture
`replace`	Replace table with another table

Table Content

`row`	Access table row
`entry`	Access table entry

View Presentations

`pptview`	Open Microsoft PowerPoint presentation or convert it to PDF
`rptview`	Display report or presentation

Classes

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Content Objects

`mlreportgen.ppt.ExternalLink`	Hyperlink to location outside of presentation
`mlreportgen.ppt.InternalLink`	Hyperlink to a slide in a presentation (Since R2021a)
`mlreportgen.ppt.Number`	Number to include as formatted text in document (Since R2024b)
`mlreportgen.ppt.Paragraph`	Formatted block of text (paragraph)
`mlreportgen.ppt.Picture`	Picture to include in presentation
`mlreportgen.ppt.Presentation`	Create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation container
`mlreportgen.ppt.Slide`	Presentation slide
`mlreportgen.ppt.Table`	Table in presentation
`mlreportgen.ppt.TableEntry`	Table entry
`mlreportgen.ppt.TableRow`	Table row
`mlreportgen.ppt.Text`	Text to include in a presentation
`mlreportgen.ppt.TextBox`	Text box

Format Objects

`mlreportgen.ppt.AutoFit`	Scale text to fit placeholder or text box (Since R2020a)
`mlreportgen.ppt.BackgroundColor`	Background color of presentation element (Since R2020a)
`mlreportgen.ppt.Bold`	Bold for text object
`mlreportgen.ppt.FontColor`	Font color
`mlreportgen.ppt.FontFamily`	Font family
`mlreportgen.ppt.FontSize`	Font size
`mlreportgen.ppt.HAlign`	Horizontal alignment of paragraph
`mlreportgen.ppt.Italic`	Italic for text object
`mlreportgen.ppt.Strike`	Strikethrough text
`mlreportgen.ppt.Subscript`	Subscript text
`mlreportgen.ppt.Superscript`	Superscript text
`mlreportgen.ppt.Underline`	Underline text
`mlreportgen.ppt.NumberFormat`	Number formatting (Since R2024b)

Format Table Objects

`mlreportgen.ppt.Border`	Border of a table or table entry (Since R2020a)
`mlreportgen.ppt.ColSep`	Table column separators (Since R2020a)
`mlreportgen.ppt.ColSpec`	Formatting for table column
`mlreportgen.ppt.ColWidth`	Table column width
`mlreportgen.ppt.FlowDirection`	Table column flow direction (Since R2020a)
`mlreportgen.ppt.RowHeight`	Table row height (Since R2020a)
`mlreportgen.ppt.RowSep`	Table row separators (Since R2020a)
`mlreportgen.ppt.TableStyleOptions`	Stripe table rows and columns
`mlreportgen.ppt.TextOrientation`	Orientation of text in a table entry (Since R2020a)
`mlreportgen.ppt.VAlign`	Vertical alignment of table entry content

Topics

Presentation Formatting Approaches
Format a presentation by using style sheets, format objects, or format properties.
Presentation Format Inheritance
The PPT API allows you to use a PowerPoint^® template and PPT API format objects and properties to format presentation objects.
Create and Format Text
You can create a Text object using an mlreportgen.ppt.Text constructor, specifying a character vector.
Create and Format Paragraphs
To create a Paragraph object, use the mlreportgen.ppt.Paragraph constructor.
Create and Format Tables
Create a table using an mlreportgen.ppt.Table object.
Create and Format Pictures
To create a picture for a presentation, use the mlreportgen.ppt.Picture constructor.
Create and Format Links
In a presentation, you can create an internal link, from one slide to another slide, or an external link to a location outside of the presentation.
Define a Style Using Format Objects
Create an array of formats, such as color, font family, and font size, that specify the appearance of a paragraph or other content object.
Use Format Properties
Most PPT API presentation objects (such as a Paragraph object) include properties that you can use to set the format of the content of an object.