Reading a PowerPoint file

I was given collection of PowerPoint files that had the main text 'all over the place' in title boxes, multiple text boxes, etc. Basically, it was a real mess and almost impossible to search.

I wanted to extract all of the text from the files, dump it into a Notes database and then sort out the mess so we could put it back into a standard template.

There are plenty of COM examples for interacting with Word and Excel, but almost nothing for PowerPoint. The following example is part of my overall solution. This gets a

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hold of the text on slides. Once you have all of the text then you can do what you like with it -- in this case it pastes into the current document's body field.

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