Sorry folks, I really have no idea what I am doing here, but this is my goal. I am building a powerpoint presentation that will be a compilation of various presentations. Right now I am having trouble adding the slides from the second file to the first file. The following code returns this error: Win32::OLE(0.1502) error 0x80048240 in METHOD/PROPERTYGET "Slides" at powerpoint_create_withEDM.pl line 256 Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call at powerpoint_create_withEDM.pl line 259. 
sub addMyFile{
    my $file = shift;  #this is the filename of the file i am adding
    my $fullpath = "$edmdir\\$file";  #full filename with path
    my $pptadd = Win32::OLE->new( 'PowerPoint.Application', 'Quit' )or
+ die "Can't create PowerPoint OLE: $!\n";
        $pptadd->{Visible} = 1;
    my $addpres = $pptadd->Presentations->Open( $fullpath ) or die "Ca
+n't open PowerPoint file '$fullpath': $!\n";  # this is the second pr
+esentation....  i need to add it to the first one which has variable 
+$pres
 
    my @slides;
    my $j = 1;
    my $slide;
    
    while ($addpres->Slides($j)){$slides[$j] = $addpres->Slides($j);$j
+++};  #this goes one too many, but I am working on it.

    my $k = 1;
    foreach $slide (@slides){ $pres -> Slides($slideIndex) = $slides[$
+k]; $slideIndex++; $k++};
        
}

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Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
~~David~~

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