PowerPoint Office JS Task Pane Addin functionality to copy and paste shape

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I must be missing something, but I cannot seem to figure out how to build a simple function to copy and paste a shape in my Office Addin for PowerPoint. Seems there is no support for this. At least not what I can find in the APIs for PowerPoint. Really hope I am missing something obvious here...

The work around I use at the moment is to copy all available attributes of the shapes I want to copy and then add a new shape with the same attributes. This would be fine (even though cumbersome), but only some attributes are accessible (like height, width etc.). Many text / paragraph formatting attributes are still missing.

Hope someone knows a better way to do this! Any support will be greatly appreciated!

error message I receive in ScriptLab:

$("#run").click(run);

function run() {
  Office.context.document.getSelectedDataAsync(Office.CoercionType.XmlSvg, {}, (asyncResult) => {
    if (asyncResult.status === Office.AsyncResultStatus.Failed) {
      //await context.sync();
      console.error(asyncResult);
    } else {
      //await context.sync();
      console.log(asyncResult);
    }
  });
}

Rick Kirkham · Accepted Answer · 2023-04-05 17:52:52Z

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I think this can be done with the Common APIs. Try using document.getSelectedDataAsync and setSelectedDataAsync. The reference for the Common APIs is office package.

answered Apr 5, 2023 at 17:52

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tompen78 Over a year ago

I was hoping for a better solution, but I think you are right that this is the only way available for now. The drawback with the setSelectedDataAsynch for SVGs is that it is not a "real" shape (it is obviously a SVG). Which means that adjustment points and other shape specific attributes are lost in the process. For the getSelectedDataAsynch part I have not been successful in getting the function to return a value. I only get "undefined" returned.

tompen78 Over a year ago

This is my function as it is written now; getSelectedSVG = async () => { await PowerPoint.run(async (context) => { Office.context.document.getSelectedDataAsync( Office.CoercionType.XmlSvg, function (result) { const dataValue = result.asyncContext as string; console.log(dataValue); return dataValue as any; } ); await context.sync(); }); }; My understanding is it should return a string for the XML, but I get only undefined. Any ideas where I go wrong? Thanks!

Rick Kirkham Over a year ago

It would be great if you could reproduce this in the Script Lab tool. If you can, create a gist and provide the URL to the gist.

tompen78 Over a year ago

Good idea. I get the same issue in ScriptLab as well. Hope you can access the gist the way I provided it! Many thanks for your support! <script src="gist.github.com/ThomasHeron/…> gist.github.com/ThomasHeron/038f463c41e095d1da11a4f3c56c0c0c

Rick Kirkham Over a year ago

ScriptLab is telling me that that is not a valid gist URL. https://gist.github.com/ThomasHeron/038f463c41e095d1da11a4f3c56c0c0c

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