How do you identify the ID of a picture in PowerPoint?

JohnWilson · #1 04-13-2012, 07:07 AM

AFAIK Excel doesn't show the shape ID in the GUI. It does show the Shape name (not the same thing the ID cannot be changed the name can)

If this is what you need you need to show the selection pane. HOME Tab.. select drop menu (far right in Editing) This will show the name and allow you to rename the picture.

If you really want the ID you can only get it with code
msgbox ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange(1).Id

If you use names you need to be sure noone is going to change them!

PowerPoint has a cool feature "Shape tags" You can add a tag to any shape to identify it. This is ONLY possible in code and the average user cannot change them:

Some info

CatMan · #2 04-13-2012, 04:41 PM

Hi John, Thanks for the info, it really helps! I discovered I can get the picture ID by applying an animation, the animation pane reports the picture ID but this is a round about way to do it. Selection Pane gets me a little closer to solving my problem. When I apply selection pane to an arbitrary PowerPoint example one slide has two pictures with the same name 'Picture 30' (twice). That surprised me. When I use your code suggestion '....ShapeRange(1).Id' each Picture 30 has a different ID, which is more logical to me.

Can you offer some code that would allow me to delete a picture by Picture name or by Picture ID. Also I would like to adjust the location of a picture on the slide (move it). Here's what I have tried so far (but it doesnt work)

Code:

'Delete picture (by Picutre number or ID number)
ActiveWindow.Name("Picture 30").Delete
ActiveWindow.ShapeRange(1).ID("13340").Delete.

'Move picture (by points)
ActiveWindow.ShapeRange(1).ID("13340').left(30)
ActiveWindow.ShapeRange(1).ID("13340').top(30)

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