Excel VBA code to export charts to PowerPoint as metafile

Writing Excel VBA (Office 2010) code to launch an existing PPT template and paste in an Excel generated chart as a metafile. Can't get the pasting to work. Here's what I have so far.

Dim PPT As PowerPoint.Application
Dim pptPres1 As PowerPoint.Presentation


Set PPT = New PowerPoint.Application
PPT.Visible = True
PPT.Presentations.Open Filename:="C:\template.pptx"
Set pptPres1 = PPT.ActivePresentation


'copy first bar chart from Excel
ActiveSheet.ChartObjects("Chart 1").Activate
ActiveChart.ChartArea.Copy


Appreciate any help. Thanks.

Code:

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ActiveSheet.ChartObjects("Chart 1").Chart.CopyPicture
pptPres1.Slides(2).Shapes.PasteSpecial ppPasteEnhancedMetafile

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Seems to work. Thanks for the help!

Hi anyone can help me to debug the error? I have tried for few weeks but notable to figure out why.
The function of macro in this file is used to copy the chart from excel to presentation slides. I saved the presentation slides template at desktop and copy the link to the excel macro file.
When running the 1st time macro, it's able to works well. After close the presentation file and re-run again the macro, the error message prompted said run time error. I have no idea how to debug the error. Hope anyone can help me?


Sub Xls2Ppt()
Dim objPPT As Object
Dim Shapes As Object


Dim pptApp As Object
Dim pptPres As Object
Dim pptSlide As Object
Dim pptShape As Object


Dim MacroFile As String
Dim strTemplate As String
Dim strSheet As String
Dim strTitle As String


Dim intTotalSlide As Integer
Dim i As Integer
Dim j As Integer


Dim SlideCount As Long


MacroFile = ActiveWorkbook.Name
strTemplate = Range("C4")
strSheet = Range("C5")
intTotalSlide = LastRow - 5


Set objPPT = CreateObject("PowerPoint.Application")
objPPT.Visible = True
objPPT.Presentations.Open strTemplate


Set pptApp = GetObject(, "Powerpoint.Application")
Set pptPres = pptApp.ActivePresentation
pptApp.ActiveWindow.ViewType = ppViewSlide

j = pptPres.Slides.Count 'count slides
j = 2
i = 6

Windows(MacroFile).Activate
Sheets("Macro").Select
strSheet = Range("C" & i)
strTitle = Range("D" & i)
Sheets(strSheet).Select


' 1st slide- Q1
'********************************
Windows(MacroFile).Activate
Sheets("Macro").Select
strSheet = Range("C" & i)
strTitle = Range("D" & i)
Sheets(strSheet).Select
'*********************************


'Copy Q1
'Range("D3", "L" & Sheet6.Range("F65536").End(xlUp).Row).Select
Range("D2:K24").Select
Selection.Copy

SlideCount = pptPres.Slides.Count
Set pptSlide = pptPres.Slides.Add(j, ppLayoutTitleOnly)
pptApp.ActiveWindow.View.GotoSlide pptSlide.SlideIndex
pptSlide.Shapes.PasteSpecial ppPasteBitmap

With pptSlide
.Shapes(1).TextFrame.TextRange.Text = strTitle
End With

pptSlide.Shapes(pptSlide.Shapes.Count).Select
Set sr = pptApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange
sr.Align msoAlignMiddles, True
pptApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.Top = 120

sr.ScaleHeight 0.9, msoTrue
sr.ScaleWidth 0.9, msoTrue

sr.Left = 120



'2nd slide - Q2
'************************************
j = j + 1
i = i + 1
Windows(MacroFile).Activate
Sheets("Macro").Select
strSheet = Range("C" & i)
strTitle = Range("D" & i)
Sheets(strSheet).Select
'*************************************



'Copy Q2
'Range("D3", "L" & Sheet6.Range("F65536").End(xlUp).Row).Select
Range("D28:K49").Select
Selection.Copy

SlideCount = pptPres.Slides.Count
Set pptSlide = pptPres.Slides.Add(j, ppLayoutTitleOnly)
pptApp.ActiveWindow.View.GotoSlide pptSlide.SlideIndex
pptSlide.Shapes.PasteSpecial ppPasteBitmap

With pptSlide
.Shapes(1).TextFrame.TextRange.Text = strTitle
End With

pptSlide.Shapes(pptSlide.Shapes.Count).Select
Set sr = pptApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange
sr.Align msoAlignMiddles, True
pptApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.Top = 120

sr.ScaleHeight 0.9, msoTrue
sr.ScaleWidth 0.9, msoTrue

sr.Left = 120


'3 slide - Q3
'************************************
j = j + 1
i = i + 1
Windows(MacroFile).Activate
Sheets("Macro").Select
strSheet = Range("C" & i)
strTitle = Range("D" & i)
Sheets(strSheet).Select
'*************************************



'Copy Q3
'Range("D3", "L" & Sheet6.Range("F65536").End(xlUp).Row).Select
Range("D55:K76").Select
Selection.Copy

SlideCount = pptPres.Slides.Count
Set pptSlide = pptPres.Slides.Add(j, ppLayoutTitleOnly)
pptApp.ActiveWindow.View.GotoSlide pptSlide.SlideIndex
pptSlide.Shapes.PasteSpecial ppPasteBitmap

With pptSlide
.Shapes(1).TextFrame.TextRange.Text = strTitle
End With

pptSlide.Shapes(pptSlide.Shapes.Count).Select
Set sr = pptApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange
sr.Align msoAlignMiddles, True
pptApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.Top = 120

sr.ScaleHeight 0.9, msoTrue
sr.ScaleWidth 0.9, msoTrue

sr.Left = 120



End




End Sub




Attached the original excel file with macro coding. Thank you very much.