Adding and deleting slides in PowerPoint are essential actions that allow presenters to control the structure and content of their presentations. Adding slides provides the opportunity to expand and enhance the presentation by introducing new topics or providing supporting information. On the other hand, deleting slides helps streamline the presentation by removing redundant, repetitive, or irrelevant content. In this article, we will demonstrate how to add or delete slides in a PowerPoint Presentation in Python using Spire.Presentation for Python.
- Add a New Slide at the End of the PowerPoint Document in Python
- Insert a New Slide Before a Specific Slide in PowerPoint in Python
- Delete a Specific Slide from a PowerPoint Document in Python
Install Spire.Presentation for Python
This scenario requires Spire.Presentation for Python and plum-dispatch v1.7.4. They can be easily installed in your Windows through the following pip command.
pip install Spire.Presentation
If you are unsure how to install, please refer to this tutorial: How to Install Spire.Presentation for Python on Windows
Add a New Slide at the End of the PowerPoint Document in Python
Spire.Presentation for Python provides the Presentation.Slides.Append() method to add a new slide after the last slide of a PowerPoint presentation. The detailed steps are as follows.
- Create an object of the Presentation class.
- Load a PowerPoint presentation using Presentation.LoadFromFile() method.
- Add a new blank slide at the end of the presentation using Presentation.Slides.Append() method.
- Save the result presentation using Presentation.SaveToFile() method.
- Python
from spire.presentation.common import *
from spire.presentation import *
# Create a Presentation object
presentation = Presentation()
# Load a PowerPoint presentation
presentation.LoadFromFile("Sample.pptx")
# Add a new slide at the end of the presentation
presentation.Slides.Append()
# Save the result presentation to a .pptx file
presentation.SaveToFile("AddSlide.pptx", FileFormat.Pptx2013)
presentation.Dispose()
Insert a New Slide Before a Specific Slide in PowerPoint in Python
You can use the Presentation.Slides.Insert() method to insert a new slide before a specific slide of a PowerPoint presentation. The detailed steps are as follows.
- Create an object of the Presentation class.
- Load a PowerPoint presentation using Presentation.LoadFromFile() method.
- Insert a blank slide before a specific slide using Presentation.Slides.Insert() method.
- Save the result presentation using Presentation.SaveToFile() method.
- Python
from spire.presentation.common import *
from spire.presentation import *
# Create a Presentation object
presentation = Presentation()
# Load a PowerPoint presentation
presentation.LoadFromFile("Sample.pptx")
# Insert a blank slide before the second slide
presentation.Slides.Insert(1)
# Save the result presentation to a .pptx file
presentation.SaveToFile("InsertSlide.pptx", FileFormat.Pptx2013)
presentation.Dispose()
Delete a Specific Slide from a PowerPoint Document in Python
To delete a specific slide from a PowerPoint presentation, you can use the Presentation.Slides.RemoveAt() method. The detailed steps are as follows.
- Create an object of the Presentation class.
- Load a PowerPoint presentation using Presentation.LoadFromFile() method.
- Remove a specific slide from the presentation using Presentation.Slides.RemoveAt() method.
- Save the result presentation using Presentation.SaveToFile() method.
- Python
from spire.presentation.common import *
from spire.presentation import *
# Create a Presentation object
presentation = Presentation()
# Load a PowerPoint presentation
presentation.LoadFromFile("Sample.pptx")
# Remove the first slide
presentation.Slides.RemoveAt(0)
# Save the result presentation to a .pptx file
presentation.SaveToFile("RemoveSlide.pptx", FileFormat.Pptx2013)
presentation.Dispose()
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