I've written/compiled a macro that opens an Excel file, creates a PowerPoint chart and populates the chart worksheet with data from a worksheet in the Excel file.
I'm trying to alter the macro to loop through the Excel file's worksheets and:
- for each worksheet create a PowerPoint slide and chart
- populate the PowerPoint chart with data from the worksheet in the Excel file
Presently when I run the macro, the first PowerPoint chart and slide is created correctly. The second slide is created for the Excel file's second worksheet but the PowerPoint chart is not created correctly. The workbook that I'm testing the macro on has two worksheets.
What is the correct way to dynamically reference each new PowerPoint slide? As of now I've been using:
Set pptWorkSheet = pptWorkBook.Worksheets(ActivePresentation.Slides.Count) 'sorta works-changed 8/19
When I go to the debugger it says ActivePresentation.Slides.Count = 2
so I am not sure as to why its not transferring the data to the second PowerPoint chart.
I also may not be referring to the Excel file worksheets correctly here:
pptWorkSheet.Range("a2:b5").Value = xlWB.ActiveSheet.Range("a2:b5").Value
Below is the full macro:
Sub CreateChartAllWKs()
'Create variables
Dim myChart As Chart
Dim pptChartData As ChartData
Dim pptWorkBook As Excel.Workbook
Dim pptWorkSheet As Excel.Worksheet
Dim xlApp As Excel.Application
Dim xlWB As Workbook
Dim xlWS As Worksheet
' Create new excel instance and open relevant workbook
Set xlApp = New Excel.Application
xlApp.Visible = True 'Make Excel visable
Set xlWB = xlApp.Workbooks.Open("C:\filepath\ExcelData.xlsm", True, False) 'Open relevant workbook
'Loop through each worksheet in xlWB and transfer data to new pptWorkBook and
'create new PowerPoint chart
For Each xlWS In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets
'Add a new slide where we will create the PowerPoint worksheet and chart
ActivePresentation.Slides.Add ActivePresentation.Slides.Count + 1, ppLayoutText
ActiveWindow.View.GotoSlide ActivePresentation.Slides.Count
Set activeSlide = ActivePresentation.Slides(ActivePresentation.Slides.Count)
' Create the chart and set a reference to the chart data.
Set myChart = activeSlide.Shapes.AddChart.Chart 'changed 8/19
Set pptChartData = myChart.ChartData
' Set the PowerPoint Workbook and Worksheet references.
Set pptWorkBook = pptChartData.Workbook
Set pptWorkSheet = pptWorkBook.Worksheets(ActivePresentation.Slides.Count) 'sorta works-changed 8/19
' Add the data to the PowerPoint workbook.
pptWorkSheet.ListObjects("Table1").Resize pptWorkSheet.Range("A1:B5")
pptWorkSheet.Range("Table1[[#Headers],[Series 1]]").Value = "Items"
pptWorkSheet.Range("a2:b5").Value = xlWB.ActiveSheet.Range("a2:b5").Value 'transfer data from ExcelWB to pptWorkSheet (i.e. the PowerPoint workbook)
' Apply styles to the chart.
With myChart
.ChartStyle = 4
.ApplyLayout 4
.ClearToMatchStyle
End With
' Add the axis title.
With myChart.Axes(xlValue)
.HasTitle = True
.AxisTitle.Text = "Units"
End With
'Apply data labels
myChart.ApplyDataLabels
Next xlWS
' Clean up the references.
Set pptWorkSheet = Nothing
' pptWorkBook.Application.Quit
Set pptWorkBook = Nothing
Set pptChartData = Nothing
Set myChart = Nothing
'Clean up Excel references.
Set xlApp = Nothing
'Option to close excel workbook
'ExcelWB.Close
End Sub