If you want to close a PowerPoint presentation that you opened earlier in your script, you can use the Close method of the Presentation object. Here is an example:
import mlreportgen.ppt.*
% Open the PowerPoint presentation
presentation = Presentation('my_presentation.pptx');
open(presentation);
% ... some code that modifies the presentation ...
% Close the presentation
close(presentation);
If you want to check if PowerPoint is running before opening or closing a presentation, you can use the system function to execute a command line that lists all running processes, and then check if "Powerpnt.exe" is in the list. Here is an example:
% Check if PowerPoint is running
[status, result] = system('tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq Powerpnt.exe"');
is_running = contains(result, 'Powerpnt.exe');
% If PowerPoint is running, close the presentation
if is_running
try
% Open the presentation
presentation = Presentation('my_presentation.pptx');
open(presentation);
% ... some code that modifies the presentation ...
% Close the presentation
close(presentation);
% Close PowerPoint
system('taskkill /F /IM Powerpnt.exe');
catch ME
% Handle any errors
warning('Failed to close the PowerPoint presentation: %s', ME.message);
end
end
This code tries to open and close the presentation, and then close PowerPoint using the taskkill command. If any errors occur, a warning message is displayed.
