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Goblin82
05-12-2010, 11:23 AM
Hi I need to be able to run a macro to change the languageID of text boxes and tables in powerpoint documents. I was able to do it with normal textboxes with textframe but I am having a hard time figuring out how to to do it with tables. I also need to do it with grouped text. Can anyone help or at least point me in the right direction?

Thanks.

John Wilson
05-13-2010, 06:06 AM
Free Trial here might do what you need.
http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/Real_Lingo.html

It will help if you say which version of Powerpoint. In 2007/10 it's not possible to change smart art with a macro but there are ways round this in the xml.

Goblin82
05-15-2010, 08:02 AM
I'm using office 2003, actually I've figured most of it out, I still can't do it for tables though, I can cycle the table cell by cell and change it to another language but I still haven't figured out how to change the languageID of the table as a whole. I doubt it matters much really, I figure the spell check is going to pick up the language of the cells anyway but it's still tedious.