Chapter 24. Understanding the PowerPoint Object Model and Key Objects

This chapter shows you how to start working with the PowerPoint object model, the architecture underlying PowerPoint. The chapter demonstrates how to perform common actions with the most immediately useful PowerPoint objects. These objects include the Presentations collection and the Presentation object, the ActivePresentation object, the Slides collection and Slide objects, Window objects, and Master objects.

In this chapter you will learn to do the following:

  • Understand the PowerPoint object model

  • Understand PowerPoint's creatable objects

  • Work with presentations

  • Work with windows and views

  • Work with slides

  • Work with masters

Getting an Overview of the PowerPoint Object Model

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