Bugs with solutions
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PowerPoint User Interface
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PowerPoint VBA Programming
Pasting text into an existing shape
This should work and it did prior to PowerPoint 2007:
Application.ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Shapes(1).TextFrame.TextRange. _ InsertAfter.Paste
But since 2007, it generates the error -2147024809 (80070057) “The specified parameter has an invalid value.”
Workaround:
Application.ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Shapes(1).TextFrame.TextRange. _
InsertAfter(" ").Paste
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I have a macro that pulls charts from different workbooks and pastes them into powerpoint. It loops through about 80 different files. The bottom line is…for each iteration, I can get different results every time with the same code, Some charts don’t paste, others do. Then I run it again, and it works fine. Its frustrating because obviously all the logic and syntax is working correctly.