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replace

Class: mlreportgen.ppt.Presentation
Package: mlreportgen.ppt

Replace text, tables, or pictures in presentation

Description

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replace(presentation,contentName,content) replaces existing content in a presentation content object with the specified content which can be one or more paragraphs, a table, or a picture. If the type of content that you specify in the content argument is not valid for the content object identified by contentName, the replace method has no effect.

Examples

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Import the PPT package so that you do not have to use long, fully qualified names for the PPT API classes.

import mlreportgen.ppt.*

Create a presentation and add two slides that have titles.

ppt = Presentation('myPresentation.pptx');
open(ppt);
add(ppt,'Title Slide');
add(ppt,'Title and Content');

Replace all the titles in the presentation with the title My Slide Title.

replace(ppt,'Title','My Slide Title');

Close and view the presentation.

close(ppt);
rptview(ppt);

Input Arguments

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Presentation to replace content in, specified as an mlreportgen.ppt.Presentation object.

Name property value of the objects that contain the content that you want to replace, specified as a character vector or string scalar.

When you add a slide to a presentation, the add method sets the Name property of the content objects on the slide based on the slide layout. See getLayoutNames. The Name property values include:

  • 'Title'

  • 'Content'

  • 'Table'

  • 'Picture'

  • 'Text'

  • 'Vertical Text'

The Name property can also be set to a custom value.

Replacement content, specified as one of these values:

  • character vector or string scalar

  • mlreportgen.ppt.Paragaph object

  • cell array of character vectors or Paragraph objects, or a combination of both

  • string array

  • mlreportgen.ppt.Table object

  • mlreportgen.ppt.Picture object

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Version History

Introduced in R2015b