replace
Class: mlreportgen.ppt.TablePlaceholder
Package: mlreportgen.ppt
Replace table placeholder with table
Description
replacementTableObj = replace(tablePlaceholder,table)
Examples
Replace Table Placeholder with Table
Add a Title and Table slide to a presentation and then replace the title and table placeholders with your own title and table.
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.
ppt = Presentation("myTablePlaceholderPresentation.pptx");
open(ppt);Add a slide that has a Title and Table layout.
slide = add(ppt,"Title and Table");Use the find method of the slide object to find the placeholder object that has the name Title.
titlePlaceholderObj = find(slide,"Title")titlePlaceholderObj =
TextBoxPlaceholder with properties:
Bold: []
Font: []
ComplexScriptFont: []
FontColor: []
FontSize: []
Italic: []
Strike: []
Subscript: []
Superscript: []
Underline: []
BackgroundColor: []
VAlign: []
Name: 'Title'
X: []
Y: []
Width: []
Height: []
Style: []
Children: []
Parent: [1×1 mlreportgen.ppt.Slide]
Tag: 'ppt.TextBoxPlaceholder:30:96'
Id: '30:96'
The find method returns an mlreportgen.ppt.TextBoxPlaceholder object.
Replace the placeholder content with the title text.
replace(titlePlaceholderObj,"Fourth-Order Magic Square");Use the find method of the slide object to find the placeholder object that has the name Table.
tablePlaceholderObj = find(slide,"Table")tablePlaceholderObj =
TablePlaceholder with properties:
Bold: []
Font: []
ComplexScriptFont: []
FontColor: []
FontSize: []
Italic: []
Strike: []
Subscript: []
Superscript: []
Underline: []
BackgroundColor: []
VAlign: []
Name: 'Table'
X: []
Y: []
Width: []
Height: []
Style: []
Children: []
Parent: [1×1 mlreportgen.ppt.Slide]
Tag: 'ppt.TablePlaceholder:31:97'
Id: '31:97'
The find method returns an mlreportgen.ppt.TablePlaceholder object.
Replace the table placeholder with a table for a fourth-order magic square.
replace(tablePlaceholderObj,Table(magic(4)));
Close and view the presentation
close(ppt); rptview(ppt);
Here is the slide in the generated presentation:
