PowerPoint Macro: Deleting TextBoxes from an Active Slide

This PowerPoint VBA macro removes all the text-boxes from an active slide.

Macro Example

Sub RemoveTextboxes()

  Dim shp As Shape

  For Each shp In ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.Shapes　

    If shp.Type = msoTextBox Then
      shp.Delete
    End If

  Next shp

End Sub

Description

Variable Declaration

Sub...

  Dim shp As Shape

The 3rd line declares an object variable named shp that refers to a Shape object.

The Shape object represents a placeholder, shape, freeform, OLE object or picture.

Starts Looping Through All Shapes

Sub...

  Dim shp As Shape
　
  For Each shp In ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.Shapes

The 5th line starts to loop through all the elements (Shape) of a collection (Shapes). I will explain about the object model hierarchy:ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.Shapes .

[Application.]ActiveWindow

  For Each shp In ActiveWindow...

The Application.ActiveWindow property returns the DocumentWindow object that represents an active document window.

The ActiveWindow property is a member of the PowerPoint.Global class, so we can omit the Application property.

ActiveWindow.Selection [DocumentWindow.Selection]

  For Each shp In ActiveWindow.Selection...

The ActiveWindow.Selection (DocumentWindow.Selection property) returns the Selection object that represents the selection in the document window.

Selection.SlideRange

  For Each shp In ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange...

The Selection.SlideRange property returns the SlideRange object that represents a range of selected slides.

SlideRange.Shapes

  For Each shp In ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.Shapes

Finally, the SlideRange.Shapes property returns a Shapes collection object that represents all the shapes that have been placed on a slide.

Checking the Shape Type

Sub...

  Dim shp As Shape

  For Each shp In ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.Shapes　

    If shp.Type = msoTextBox Then

The 7th line checks whether the shape is a text-box.

Shape.Type

The Shape.Type property returns a MsoShapeType value that represents the shape type.

If the shape is a text-box then the Shape.Type property returns a const:msoTextBox .

Deleting the Shape

Sub...

  Dim shp As Shape

  For Each shp In ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.Shapes　

    If shp.Type = msoTextBox Then
      shp.Delete

The 8th line deletes the shape by the Shape.Delete method.

Loops Back

Sub...

  Dim shp As Shape

  For Each shp In ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.Shapes　

    If shp.Type = msoTextBox Then
      shp.Delete
    End If

  Next shp

The 11th line loops back to evaluate the next shape.

After every shape is evaluated, this macro ends.

Sub RemoveTextboxes()

  Dim shp As Shape

  For Each shp In ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.Shapes　

    If shp.Type = msoTextBox Then
      shp.Delete
    End If

  Next shp

End Sub

Properties

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Apply to

• PowerPoint 2013
• PowerPoint 2010
• PowerPoint 2007