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replace

Class: mlreportgen.ppt.TextBox
Namespace: mlreportgen.ppt

Replace text box paragraphs

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Syntax

paraObj = replace(textBox,content)
replace(textBox,contents)

Description

paraObj = replace(textBox,content) replaces a paragraph in a text box.

replace(textBox,contents) replaces multiple paragraphs in a text box placeholder.

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Examples

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Create a presentation.

import mlreportgen.ppt.*
ppt = Presentation('myTextBoxReplacePresentation.pptx');
slide = add(ppt,'Blank');

Create an mlreportgen.ppt.Paragraph object.

p = Paragraph('Hello World');

Add a text box to the blank slide (slide).

tb = TextBox();
tb.X = '1in';
tb.Y = '1in';
tb.Width = '4 in';
tb.Height = '2in';

add(slide,tb);

Add the paragraph to the text box.

add(tb,p);

Replace the content of the text box.

replace(tb,'This is the real content');

Close and view the presentation.

close(ppt);
rptview(ppt);

Input Arguments

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Text box replace text in, specified as an mlreportgen.ppt.TextBox object.

Text to use as replacement, specified as a character vector, string scalar, or mlreportgen.ppt.Paragraph object.

Multiple paragraphs to use as replacement, specified as a string array or as a cell array that can contain character vectors, mlreportgen.ppt.Paragraph objects, or combination of character vectors, strings scalars, string arrays, or mlreportgen.ppt.Paragraph objects. For a cell array, contents of inner cell arrays or string arrays are indented from the contents of the outer cell array.

Output Arguments

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Paragraph, returned as an mlreportgen.ppt.Paragraph object.

Version History

Introduced in R2015b

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