InsertFromFile Method

Microsoft PowerPoint Visual Basic

Inserts slides from a file into a presentation, at the specified location. Returns an integer that represents the number of slides inserted.

expression.InsertFromFile(FileName, Index, SlideStart, SlideEnd)

expression    Required. An expression that returns a Slides collection.

FileName    Required String. The name of the file that contains the slides you want to insert.

Index    Required Long. The index number of the Slide object in the specified Slides collection you want to insert the new slides after.

SlideStart    Optional Long. The index number of the first Slide object in the Slides collection in the file denoted by FileName.

SlideEnd    Optional Long. The index number of the last Slide object in the Slides collection in the file denoted by FileName.

Example

This example inserts slides three through six from C:\Ppt\Sales.ppt after slide two in the active presentation.

ActivePresentation.Slides.InsertFromFile _
    "c:\ppt\sales.ppt", 2, 3, 6