how to close powerpoint

i am opening powerpoint and would like to check that pp is open and close it at the beginning of the script.

to avoid crashing later in the code when i open and write to powerpoint with same name.

Close(presentaion) does not work - somehow it doe snot have permission to do so

i tried delete

exit but nothing works

%Powerpoint function

import mlreportgen.ppt.*

taskToLookFor = 'Powerpnt.exe';

% Now make up the command line with the proper argument

% that will find only the process we are looking for.

commandLine = sprintf('tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq %s"', taskToLookFor)

% Now execute that command line and accept the result into "result".

[status result] = system(commandLine)

% Look for our program's name in the result variable.

itIsRunning = strfind(lower(result), lower(taskToLookFor))

if itIsRunning

if exist('Plotted Circulator', 'file')==0

system('taskkill /F /IM powerpoint.EXE');

end

else

end

Answer 1

[Jack]

If you want to close a PowerPoint presentation that you opened earlier in your script, you can use the Close method of the Presentation object. Here is an example:

import mlreportgen.ppt.*

% Open the PowerPoint presentation
presentation = Presentation('my_presentation.pptx');
open(presentation);

% ... some code that modifies the presentation ...

% Close the presentation
close(presentation);

If you want to check if PowerPoint is running before opening or closing a presentation, you can use the system function to execute a command line that lists all running processes, and then check if "Powerpnt.exe" is in the list. Here is an example:

% Check if PowerPoint is running
[status, result] = system('tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq Powerpnt.exe"');
is_running = contains(result, 'Powerpnt.exe');

% If PowerPoint is running, close the presentation
if is_running
    try
        % Open the presentation
        presentation = Presentation('my_presentation.pptx');
        open(presentation);
        
        % ... some code that modifies the presentation ...
        
        % Close the presentation
        close(presentation);
        
        % Close PowerPoint
        system('taskkill /F /IM Powerpnt.exe');
    catch ME
        % Handle any errors
        warning('Failed to close the PowerPoint presentation: %s', ME.message);
    end
end

This code tries to open and close the presentation, and then close PowerPoint using the taskkill command. If any errors occur, a warning message is displayed.

[Ihaveaquest]

this works great thank you - one thing i noticed it kills all open powerpoint files - how may i pinpoint to a specific powerpoint