http://simonwillison.net/2009-04-03T15:13:23+00:00Simon Willison2009-04-03T15:13:23+00:002009-04-03T15:13:23+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/3/automating/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.s-anand.net/blog/automating-powerpoint-with-python/">Automating PowerPoint with Python</a></strong></p> Useful tutorial on using ActivePython’s win32com module to automate PowerPoint. The example code pulls in the top 50 banks by assets from the Guardian Data Store and generates a treemap using PowerPoint’s shape drawing primitives. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/activepython">activepython</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/datastore">datastore</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/guardian">guardian</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/powerpoint">powerpoint</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/treemap">treemap</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/visualisation">visualisation</a></p>