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Alas, my only thought would be Win32::OLE, and have never found any other modules for power point manipulation. The only Microsoft Office™ software (with the exception of Access™) that i have seen interfaced without OLE is Excel™ via Spreadsheet::ParseExcel. I do wonder, has anyone seen any non-OLE support for Powerpoint™ or Word™ documents ?

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Re: Re: Manipulate Powerpoint Docs?
by da (Friar) on Jul 25, 2001 at 21:20 UTC
    I do wonder, has anyone seen any non-OLE support for Powerpoint™ or Word™ documents ?

    My favorite support program for Word™ documents is 'strings'. :-)

    Works really nice as a filter from Pine... 

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