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Read and Inspect PowerPoint Decks

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Open existing presentations, enumerate slides and shapes, inspect notes and layouts, and summarize a deck before changing it.

Use the PowerPoint read surface to inventory a deck before modification, build a presentation catalog, extract speaker notes, or verify that a generated deck has the expected structure.

Inspect slide by slide

$presentation = Get-OfficePowerPoint -FilePath '.\Briefing.pptx'
for ($index = 0; $index -lt $presentation.Slides.Count; $index++) {
    $slide = Get-OfficePowerPointSlide -Presentation $presentation -Index $index
    Get-OfficePowerPointSlideSummary -Slide $slide
    Get-OfficePowerPointShape -Slide $slide
    Get-OfficePowerPointNotes -Slide $slide
}
Close-OfficePowerPoint -Presentation $presentation

The inspection family covers slides, shapes, placeholders, notes, themes, layouts, sections, transitions, charts, tables, and presentation metadata. Start with a summary, then query the structures relevant to the job.

The inspect-deck recipe creates a representative deck and reports title, shape, and note counts per slide.