Save slides 1 to 20 as new presentation-CodePudding

Can someone please help me with the VBA Code to Copy Slides 1 to Slide 20 (I have a ppt with 450 slides)and save as a new presentation (New Presentation name should be XYZ.pptx

I have tried

Sub ExportSlides() 
    Dim myPresentation As Presentations 
    Set myPresentation = Presentations("PPTWITH450SLIDES.pptx").Slides.range(Array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)) 

    myPresentation.Export ("C:\Users\rajat.kapoor\Droom Overview.pptx",FilterName:="pptx")  
End Sub

but it is giving compile error: Syntax Error in the last line

myPresentation.Export ("C:\Users\rajat.kapoor\Droom Overview.pptx",FilterName:="pptx")

CodePudding user response：

It's usually simpler to delete unwanted slides from a saved copy of your original presentation. Like so:

Option Explicit

Sub ExportSlides()

Dim x As Long

' Presentation not PresentationS
Dim myPresentation As Presentation

' If the presentation is already open:
' Set myPresentation = Presentations("exportable.pptx")

' otherwise
Set myPresentation = Presentations.Open("c:\temp\exportable.pptx")

myPresentation.SaveAs ("c:\temp\exported.pptx")
' The current presentation is now Exported.pptx

With myPresentation
    ' change 5 to the highest number slide you want to include   1
    For x = .Slides.Count To 6 Step -1
        .Slides(x).Delete
    Next
End With

myPresentation.Save

End Sub

CodePudding user response：

You get the syntax error because you need to remove the parenthesis from

myPresentation.Export ("C:\Users\rajat.kapoor\Droom Overview.pptx",FilterName:="pptx")

As the official documentation describes the Presentation.Export method has no return value. Therfore it is not a function and has no parentesis for the parameters:

myPresentation.Export "C:\Users\rajat.kapoor\Droom Overview.pptx", FilterName:="pptx"

Alternatively you can use the Call statement (with parenthesis):

Call myPresentation.Export("C:\Users\rajat.kapoor\Droom Overview.pptx", FilterName:="pptx")

For further explanation also see: https://stackoverflow.com/a/56579194/3219613

To do what you want it is easier to copy the entire presentation and delete the unnecessary slides as @SteveRindsberg suggested in his answer. The Export method is better used for exporting slides into images.