Add Paragraph

VB C#

using IronPPT;
using IronPPT.Models;

// Create new PowerPoint presentation
var document = new PresentationDocument();

// Add text to paragraph
var paragraph = new Paragraph();
paragraph.AddText("First paragraph.");

// Add paragraph
document.Slides[0].AddParagraph(paragraph);

// Export PowerPoint presentation
document.Save("addParagraph.pptx");

Imports IronPPT
Imports IronPPT.Models

' Create new PowerPoint presentation
Private document = New PresentationDocument()

' Add text to paragraph
Private paragraph = New Paragraph()
paragraph.AddText("First paragraph.")

' Add paragraph
document.Slides(0).AddParagraph(paragraph)

' Export PowerPoint presentation
document.Save("addParagraph.pptx")

Install-Package IronPPT

Add Paragraph

Adding paragraphs to a PowerPoint presentation programmatically saves considerable manual work, particularly as the slide count grows.

IronPPT gives developers control over paragraph content on each slide. Populating a slide takes only a couple of lines of code.

5-Step Guide to Adding Paragraphs

var document = new PresentationDocument();
var paragraph = new Paragraph();
paragraph.AddText("First paragraph.");
document.Slides[0].AddParagraph(paragraph);
document.Save("addParagraph.pptx");

Code Explanation

Before we add a new paragraph, we first instantiate a new PresentationDocument as our empty PowerPoint presentation. Afterwards, we instantiate a new Paragraph object, and use the AddText method to add some text to it.

Finally, we access the slides by accessing the Slides property, which returns an array of Slide objects that represent the slides in the current PowerPoint presentation. We pass the Paragraph object to the AddParagraph to add the paragraph to the first slide, then finally save the edited PowerPoint presentation with Save.

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