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Office.js API get selected shapes method for PowerPoint

Office.js API get selected shapes method for PowerPoint
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 Nov 17 2021
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Hello!

In the current version, we can get selected data in PowerPoint/Excel/Word using `Office.context.document.getSelectedDataAsync`. However, this method can only work for some specific types of data such as `Office.CoercionType`.

In PowerPoint, `ShapeType` is a very important kind of data, I want to modify some selected shapes in slides. Maybe I missed some methods to get the selected shapes in PowerPoint, I would be appreciated if you have any ideas about that. I believe this is also really needed for developers.

Thank you so much in advance!
 

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FabienSinquin
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‎Feb 18 2022 10:26 AM
‎Feb 18 2022 10:26 AM

Office.CoercionType.Ooxml is rather convenient in Word to get and set formatted content.
I would love to be able to use it in PowerPoint (and I can think of use cases in Excel too).

tjerkdb
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‎Mar 10 2022 01:37 AM
‎Mar 10 2022 01:37 AM

This is realy needed in order to create a meaningfull productivity add-in. Can the team give an update on this?

FromTheArctic
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‎Aug 22 2023 01:33 AM
‎Aug 22 2023 01:33 AM

You can use the 

context.presentation.getSelectedShapes();

See the sample https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OfficeDev/office-js-snippets/prod/samples/powerpoint/shapes/get-se... for more details. 

 

I got confused by this too as intuitively getting selected shapes sounds like it belongs in the getSelectedData method. Hope this helps.

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