Automatically deleting final (empty) paragraph from textboxes

[GertVC]

Hello,

i've created a macro in excel that creates slides in PowerPoint using a predefined slide and the data in excel.
In some of my text boxes, the last (bullet-ed) paragraph only contains a space and i would like to delete this paragraph
The code below is code i found online and which i adapted (tried to adapt) to suit my needs.

 Sub ClearPara(ActivePresentation As Object)
' Replace matching paragraphs with nothing
    Dim sld As Object, shp As Object, intCount As Integer, para As Object, strTarget As String
    strTarget = Chr(32)
    For Each sld In ActivePresentation.Slides
        For Each shp In sld.Shapes
            If shp.HasTextFrame Then
                If shp.TextFrame.TextRange.Paragraphs.Count > 0 Then
                ' More than one paragraph; loop backwards
                    For intCount = shp.TextFrame.TextRange.Paragraphs.Count _
                        To 1 Step -1
                        Set para = shp.TextFrame.TextRange.Paragraphs(intCount)
                        If intCount = shp.TextFrame.TextRange.Paragraphs.Count Then
                            ' No trailing CR+LF to match; leaves a blank bullet
                            'MsgBox (para.Text)
                            If para.Text = strTarget Then
                                para.ParagraphFormat.Bullet.Type = ppBulletNone
                                para.Delete
                                
                            End If
                        Else
                            If para.Text = strTarget & Chr(13) & Chr(10) Then
                                para.Delete
                            End If
                        End If
                    Next
                End If
            End If
        Next
    Next
End Sub

the command

 para.delete

does remove any text that is present, but it doesn't remove the paragraph brake. Because of this an empty bullet and paragraph brake remain present in the text box.

Any ideas on how the remove this page break?

any help is immensely appreciated
Best regards
Gert

[John Wilson]

Maybe

Sub ClearPara()
    Dim sld As Object, shp As Object
    Dim otxR   As Object
    Const SPACE As String = " "
    strTarget = Chr(32)
    For Each sld In ActivePresentation.Slides
        For Each shp In sld.Shapes
            If shp.HasTextFrame Then
                If shp.TextFrame.HasText Then
                    Set otxR = shp.TextFrame.TextRange
                    While otxR.Characters(otxR.Characters.Count) = SPACE _
                    Or otxR.Characters(otxR.Characters.Count) = vbCr
                    otxR.Characters(otxR.Characters.Count).Delete
                    Wend
                End If
            End If
        Next shp
    Next sld
End Sub

[GertVC]

That did exactly what i wanted it to do.
Thank you so much!

[John Wilson]

Yep

I had this exact problem with an AddIn I wrote for a Multi National Bank so had the code already done!

It's good when normal people can BENEFIT from the big banks!