About the Presentations activity package

The Presentations activities package helps you automate tasks you perform in presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint.

Indicate the presentation to work with by adding it to a Use PowerPoint Presentation activity, and then add activities inside it to automate adding text, media, and files, replacing content, executing macros, or saving the file with a different name or format.

When you configure PowerPoint activities, you can browse the contents of the file and select PowerPoint data that matches the type of a property, such as slides, shapes, and layouts directly from the Plus menu of each property. In the Studio profile, this functionality is available starting with Studio v2021.10 and UiPath.Presentations.Activities v1.2.0.

If the file you want to automate does not exist yet, you can still use the options in the Plus menu by defining a file with the same structure as a template in the Use PowerPoint Presentation activity.

You can also indicate layouts, placeholders (shapes), slide masters, and macros using their name, and indicate slides using their number. To find out the name of the shapes in a presentation, in PowerPoint go to Home, then select Arrange, and then Selection Pane.