Powerpoint content of placeholders

Seems simple enough but I need help.

I have a pptx file will multiple slides and each one with a title.

How can I import the powerpoint and then read/show all of the titles and their content (i.e. creat a list of the title texts), not just their tags or ids, but the actual content?

[Sean de Wolski]

What's the use case for needing to know this? Do you have placeholders in the text that need to be replaced?

[Adam Danz]

Why not do this within Powerpoint? I recently had to do something similar in order to make a table of contents.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/manually-create-a-table-of-contents-in-powerpoint-b811d08d-f0ca-45c9-b7a4-0243310fb3c1

[RV]

I'm working on concatenating a collection of pptx files. They all use the same pptx page template thus having similar layout. But there will be a lot of overlap. Therefore I want to import each one and read the title content so that I can concetnate without duplicating. This will take far to long to scrub them one by one. And yes I do have place holders.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

What I usually do is to record a macro to do what I want. Then I create an ActiveX server to do the same commands from MATLAB. Attached are demos where I've done that for Excel. Just do something similar in Powerpoint.