Format PowerPoint Presentation and Content

R2026b

Specify presentation layout and content formatting using the PPT API

Specify presentation layout and content formatting programmatically using the MATLAB^® API for PowerPoint^® (PPT API) by using

PPT API format objects
PPT API object properties
modifying the default presentation template

You do not have to specify any presentation formatting in your presentation generator to generate a presentation as all presentations and presentation content objects have default formatting. Use these approaches when you want to customize the formatting from the default choices. To get started with presentation formatting, see Presentation Formatting Approaches.

Functions

`getMasterNames`	Get names of slide masters for presentation
`getLayoutNames`	Get names of layouts for presentation slide master
`getTableStyleNames`	Get table style names for presentation
`mlreportgen.ppt.getDefaultNumberFormat`	Get default formatting for PPT API numeric data (Since R2024b)
`mlreportgen.ppt.setDefaultNumberFormat`	Set default formatting of numeric data generated by PPT API (Since R2024b)

Classes

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Format Presentation Content

`mlreportgen.ppt.AutoFit`	Scale text to fit placeholder or text box
`mlreportgen.ppt.BackgroundColor`	Background color of presentation element
`mlreportgen.ppt.Bold`	Bold for text object
`mlreportgen.ppt.FontColor`	Font color
`mlreportgen.ppt.FontFamily`	Font family
`mlreportgen.ppt.FontSize`	Font size
`mlreportgen.ppt.HAlign`	Horizontal alignment of paragraph
`mlreportgen.ppt.Italic`	Italic for text object
`mlreportgen.ppt.OuterMargin`	Outer margin between bounding box and adjacent presentation objects (Since R2026a)
`mlreportgen.ppt.Strike`	Strikethrough text
`mlreportgen.ppt.Subscript`	Subscript text
`mlreportgen.ppt.Superscript`	Superscript text
`mlreportgen.ppt.Underline`	Underline text
`mlreportgen.ppt.NumberFormat`	Number formatting (Since R2024b)

Format Presentation Tables

`mlreportgen.ppt.Border`	Border of a table, table entry, picture, or video
`mlreportgen.ppt.ColSep`	Table column separators
`mlreportgen.ppt.ColSpec`	Formatting for table column
`mlreportgen.ppt.ColWidth`	Table column width
`mlreportgen.ppt.FlowDirection`	Table column flow direction
`mlreportgen.ppt.InnerMargin`	Margin between content and bounding box (Since R2026a)
`mlreportgen.ppt.RowHeight`	Table row height
`mlreportgen.ppt.RowSep`	Table row separators
`mlreportgen.ppt.TableStyleOptions`	Stripe table rows and columns
`mlreportgen.ppt.TextOrientation`	Orientation of text in a table entry
`mlreportgen.ppt.VAlign`	Vertical alignment of table entry content

Topics

Presentation Formatting Approaches
Format a presentation by using style sheets, format objects, or format properties using the PPT API.
Customize a PowerPoint Presentation Template
Customize a presentation template using the PPT API.
View and Modify PowerPoint Template Elements
View and modify presentation template elements.
Presentation Format Inheritance
Control how formatting properties inherit through presentation objects using the PPT API.
Define a Presentation Style Using Format Objects
Create an array of formats that specify the appearance of a presentation content object using the PPT API.