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Original Post: Automating PowerPoint with Ruby
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I knew that Ruby had some support for Windows OLE Automation—I vaguely remembered skimming over that part in Programming Ruby, once upon a time—but I’d honestly just never had any need to use it.
Well, that changed today. A client needed some code, as part of a more complicated tool chain, to open a named PowerPoint [...]