Hi,
I am running the code below in Excel VBA. The main idea of the code is to read some info from excel and create a power point file.

I appreciate your help, thanks

Sub Macro1()
Dim XLApp As Excel.Application
Dim PPApp As PowerPoint.Application
Dim PPPres As PowerPoint.Presentation
Dim PPSlide As PowerPoint.Slide
Dim Title(10) As Variant, Connector(10) As String, Chart_Names(10) As Variant, i As Integer



Set PPApp = CreateObject("Powerpoint.Application")
Set PPPres = PPApp.Presentations.Add



For i = 1 To 8

Title(i) = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(4 + i, 19)
Chart_Names(i) = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(4 + i, 20)
Connector(i) = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(4 + i, 21)


Next i



For i = 1 To 8

If (i < 4 Or i = 5) Then

Set PPSlide = PPPres.Slides.Add(i, ppLayoutTitleOnly)
PPSlide.Select

' Reference active slide
Set PPSlide = PPPres.Slides _
(PPApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.SlideInde x)

'Add a Tittle

PPSlide.Shapes.Title.TextFrame.TextRange.Text = Title(i)
Worksheets("Sheet1").ChartObjects(Chart_Names(i)). Select

' Copy chart as a picture
ActiveChart.CopyPicture Appearance:=xlScreen, Size:=xlScreen, _
Format:=xlPicture

' Paste chart
PPSlide.Shapes.Paste.Select

With PPApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange
.Height = 275 ' resize
.Width = 425 ' resize
.Top = 120 ' reposition
.Left = 140 ' reposition
End With


Set XLApp = GetObject(, "Excel.Application")
XLApp.Range(Connector(i)).Select
XLApp.Selection.CopyPicture Appearance:=xlScreen, Format:=xlPicture
PPSlide.Shapes.Paste.Select

With PPApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange
' .Height = 275 ' resize
' .Width = 425 ' resize
.Top = 415 ' reposition
.Left = 197 ' reposition
End With

Else

Set PPSlide = PPPres.Slides.Add(i, ppLayoutTitleOnly)
PPSlide.Select

' Reference active slide
Set PPSlide = PPPres.Slides _
(PPApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.SlideInde x)


Set XLApp = GetObject(, "Excel.Application")
XLApp.Range(Chart_Names(i)).Select
XLApp.Selection.CopyPicture Appearance:=xlScreen, Format:=xlPicture
PPSlide.Shapes.Paste.Select

With PPApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange
.Height = 275 ' resize
.Width = 425 ' resize
.Top = 120 ' reposition
.Left = 140 ' reposition
End With


Set XLApp = GetObject(, "Excel.Application")
XLApp.Range(Connector(i)).Select
XLApp.Selection.CopyPicture Appearance:=xlScreen, Format:=xlPicture
PPSlide.Shapes.Paste.Select

If i = 6 Then

With PPApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange
.Height = 275 ' resize
.Width = 425 ' resize
.Top = 315 ' reposition
.Left = 146 ' reposition
End With

Else
If i = 7 Or i = 8 Then
With PPApp.ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange
.Height = 1 ' resize
.Width = 1 ' resize
.Top = 1 ' reposition
.Left = 1 ' reposition
End With
End If
End If

End If


Next



With PPPres
.SaveAs "C:\Users\DG93796\Documents\MyPreso.ppt"
.Close
End With

PPApp.Quit

Set PPSlide = Nothing
Set PPPres = Nothing
Set PPApp = Nothing

'End If



End Sub

Hi

Can you please specify where the error occurs (line of code)

The chances are the code is trying to reference the object (either Powerpoint or Excel) but the application/object is not available

Cheers
Shasur

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Thank Shasur. The problems is that the error is inconsistent and doesnt give the the typical yellow line, it just breaks while running.

The strange thing is that it doesn't brake all the time, out 10 trials 2 run fine.
I was reading a lot trying to find possible causes and found:

1. Go to Macro security and "Trust vbA"
2. Turn calculation to manual.


This seems to help immediately the run after but then when I tried to run it
again it gives me the same error.

Thanks a lot- I've never got such an inconsistent error before.

David