Rick-Kirkham commented 1 month ago

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Tables added to a slide by the user are treated as shapes in the PowerPoint APIs. But any reference to the shape's TextFrame property throws an InvalidArgument error.

Your Environment

Platform PC desktop
Host PowerPoint
Office version number: 2405 17616.20002
Operating System: Win11

Expected behavior

A reference to the Shape.TextFrame property should not throw any errors.

Current behavior

Tables added to a slide by the user are treated as shapes in the PowerPoint APIs. But any reference to the shape's TextFrame property throws an InvalidArgument error.

Steps to reproduce

In Script Lab, remove all shapes from a slide.
Add a table to a slide so it is the only shape on the slide.
Select the shape.
Run this code.

  await PowerPoint.run(async (context) => {
    const shapes = context.presentation.getSelectedShapes();
    const myshape = shapes.getItemAt(0);
    myshape.load();
    await context.sync();
    console.log(JSON.stringify(myshape,null,4));
    console.log(myshape.id);
    console.log(JSON.stringify(myshape.lineFormat));
    console.log(myshape.name);

    // The next line throws InvalidArgument error and specifies line "var textFrame = selectedShape.textFrame;"

    myshape.textFrame.load("isNullObject");  
    await context.sync();
    if (!myshape.textFrame.isNullObject) {
      console.log(JSON.stringify(myshape.textFrame));
      console.log(JSON.stringify(myshape.textFrame.textRange));
      myshape.textFrame.textRange.load("text");
      await context.sync();
      console.log(JSON.stringify(myshape.textFrame.textRange.text));
    } else {
      console.log("textFrame is a null objext");
    }
  });

Context

This customer is blocked: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78347608/how-to-update-data-in-powerpoint-table-using-office-js

samantharamon commented 1 month ago

Thanks for reporting this, @Rick-Kirkham.

@EsterBergen, could you please investigate this issue?

EsterBergen commented 1 month ago

@Rick-Kirkham - Thanks! From the stack overflow, it sounds like there is desire to insert and modify tables via office.js. Can you confirm.? That functionality is not currently available but being worked on. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78347608/how-to-update-data-in-powerpoint-table-using-office-js

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