Can I add color to table column content in a PowerPoint presentation?

[tleclaire]

Hello,

before purchasing, I need to know, if the CollapseRegion sample would also work for PowerPoint presentations?

Thanks Thomas

[zapov]

Hi,

collapse is supported in PowerPoint too. If you want to paste text with color in table you have to do it similarly to other examples.

PP uses something like this (XML type):

<a:r xmlns:a="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main">
    <a:rPr lang="en-US" dirty="0" smtClean="0">
        <a:solidFill>
            <a:srgbClr val="C00000"/>
        </a:solidFill>
    </a:rPr>
    <a:t>in color</a:t>
</a:r>

it would replace tag with red in color text. There is relevant example here: https://github.com/ngs-doo/TemplaterExamples/tree/master/Beginner/DataSet%20(.NET)

[tleclaire]

I'll check it out... Thanks!

[tleclaire]

Hi Zapov,

I can't get this to work, tried to modifiy the PresenationTables sample but when I inject the provided XML, PowerPoint wants to repair the slide or there is no content, do you have a working sample available? I tried the tag like this: [[table1.colB]:merge-xml] or add a Color Tag like this [[Color]:merge-xml]. I need to color the background conditionally.

Thanks and best regards Thomas

[zapov]

If you want to change background too XML must be somewhat different. This works:

<a:tc xmlns:a="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main">
  <a:txBody>
    <a:bodyPr/>
    <a:p>
      <a:r>
        <a:rPr>
          <a:solidFill>
            <a:srgbClr val="000000"/>
          </a:solidFill>
        </a:rPr>
        <a:t>in black</a:t>
      </a:r>
    </a:p>
  </a:txBody>
  <a:tcPr>
    <a:solidFill>
      <a:srgbClr val="C00000"/>
    </a:solidFill>
  </a:tcPr>
</a:tc>

I did notice that merge-xml does not behave as expected in some cases ;( but you can use replace-xml

I can put it in some example later if you cant get it to work with this example

[tleclaire]

This works, thank you very much!

[zapov]

Hi @tleclaire

hopefully you got everything working. Next version will support this special metadata directly through xml for easier usage. I'll close this as it should be resolved.