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mlreportgen.ppt.Table Class

Namespace: mlreportgen.ppt

Table in presentation

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Description

Use an object of the mlreportgen.ppt.Table class to include a table in a PPT API presentation.

Create a table using one of these approaches:

  • Create an empty table and append table rows that have table entries for each column.

  • Create a table from an array or cell array that specifies the table content.

After you create a table, you can add rows to the table, and add entries to each table row.

The mlreportgen.ppt.Table class is a handle class.

Class Attributes

HandleCompatible
true
ConstructOnLoad
true

For information on class attributes, see Class Attributes.

Creation

Description

tableObj = mlreportgen.ppt.Table creates an empty Table object.

tableObj = mlreportgen.ppt.Table(nCols) sets the NCols property to nCols.

tableObj = mlreportgen.ppt.Table(tableValues) returns a table that has the content specified by tableValues.

example

tableObj = mlreportgen.ppt.Table(tableValues,styleName) returns a table that has the specified content and sets the StyleName property to styleName. To get the list of valid style names, use the getTableStyleNames method of the mlreportgen.ppt.Presentation object.

Input Arguments

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Table values, specified as a two-dimensional numeric array, categorical array, or cell array of numbers, character vectors, string scalars, or mlreportgen.ppt.Paragraph objects.

Properties

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Number of table columns, specified as an integer. This property is read-only. To specify the number of columns, create a table by using the syntax mlreportgen.ppt.Table(nCols). Otherwise, the Table constructor determines the number of columns from the table content. If you add rows to a table or entries to a row and the number of columns changes, the NCols property value is updated. If the rows do not all have the same number of entries, the row with the largest number of table entries determines the number of columns in the table.

Table style name, specified as a character vector or string scalar. To get the list of valid style names, use the getTableStyleNames method of the mlreportgen.ppt.Presentation object.

Attributes:

NonCopyable
true

Data Types: char | string

Table background color, specified as a character vector or string scalar that consists of a CSS color name or hexadecimal RGB value.

Array of mlreportgen.ppt.ColSpec objects that specify the width, alignment, and other formatting properties of the table columns. The first object applies to the first column, the second object applies to the second column, and so on.

Table column flow direction, specified as a character vector or string scalar. Specify one of these values:

  • 'LeftToRight' — Left-to-right column order

  • 'RightToLeft' — Right-to-left column order

See Order Table Columns.

Border style, specified as a character vector or string scalar. Specify one of these values:

  • "none"

  • "solid"

  • "dot"

  • "dash"

  • "largeDash"

  • "dashDot"

  • "largeDashDot"

  • "largeDashDotDot"

  • "systemDash"

  • "systemDot"

  • "systemDashDot"

  • "systemDashDotDot"

Border color, specified as a character vector or string scalar that consists of a CSS color name or hexadecimal RGB value.

Border width, specified as a character vector or string scalar that consists of a number followed by an abbreviation for a unit of measurement. For example, '3pt' specifies three points. Valid abbreviations are:

  • "px" — pixels

  • "cm" — centimeters

  • "in" — inches

  • "mm" — millimeters

  • "pc" — picas

  • "pt" — points

Column separator style, specified as a character vector or string scalar. Specify one of these values:

  • "none"

  • "solid"

  • "dot"

  • "dash"

  • "largeDash"

  • "dashDot"

  • "largeDashDot"

  • "largeDashDotDot"

  • "systemDash"

  • "systemDot"

  • "systemDashDot"

  • "systemDashDotDot"

Document element color, specified as a character vector or string scalar that consists of a CSS color name (see https://www.w3.org/wiki/CSS/Properties/color/keywords) or a hexadecimal RGB (truecolor) value in the form #RRGGBB.

Note

Setting the Color property adds a corresponding mlreportgen.dom.Color format object to the Style property. Setting the Color property to an empty value removes the object.

Example: 'blue'

Example: '#0000ff'

Attributes:

NonCopyable
true

Data Types: char | string

Column separator width, specified as a character vector or string scalar that consists of a number followed by an abbreviation for a unit of measurement. Valid abbreviations are:

  • "px" — pixels

  • "cm" — centimeters

  • "in" — inches

  • "mm" — millimeters

  • "pc" — picas

  • "pt" — points

Example: "10pt"

Data Types: char | string

Row separator style, specified as a character vector or string scalar. Specify one of these values:

  • "none"

  • "solid"

  • "dot"

  • "dash"

  • "largeDash"

  • "dashDot"

  • "largeDashDot"

  • "largeDashDotDot"

  • "systemDash"

  • "systemDot"

  • "systemDashDot"

  • "systemDashDotDot"

Color of lines separating table rows, specified as a character vector or string scalar that consists of a CSS color name or a hexadecimal RGB value.

Example: "blue"

Example: "#0000ff"

Attributes:

NonCopyable
true

Data Types: char | string

Width of the row separator, specified in the form valueUnits where Units is an abbreviation for the units. Valid abbreviations are:

  • "px" — pixels

  • "cm" — centimeters

  • "in" — inches

  • "mm" — millimeters

  • "pc" — picas

  • "pt" — points

Attributes:

NonCopyable
true

Data Types: char | string

Font family for the text in this table, specified as a character vector or string scalar. Specify a font that appears in the font list in Microsoft® PowerPoint®. To see the font list, in PowerPoint, on the Home tab, in the Font group, click the arrow to the right of the font.

Font family for complex scripts, specified as a character vector or string scalar. Specify a font family to use when substituting in a locale that requires a complex script, such as Arabic or Asian, for rendering text.

Font color for text in this table, specified as a character vector or string scalar that consists of a CSS color name or hexadecimal RGB value.

Font size to use for document element that consists of a number followed by an abbreviation for a unit of measurement, specified as a character vector or string scalar. For example, "12pt" specifies twelve points. Valid abbreviations are:

  • "px" — pixels

  • "cm" — centimeters

  • "in" — inches

  • "mm" — millimeters

  • "pc" — picas

  • "pt" — points

Note

Setting the FontSize property adds a corresponding mlreportgen.dom.FontSize format object to the Style property. Setting the FontSize property to an empty value removes the object.

Example: "12pt"

Attributes:

NonCopyable
true

Data Types: char | string

Table name, specified as a character vector or string scalar.

Attributes:

NonCopyable
true

Data Types: char | string

Upper-left x-coordinate position, specified as a character vector or string scalar that consists of a number followed by an abbreviation for a unit of measurement. For example, "5in" specifies five inches. Valid abbreviations are:

  • "px" — pixels

  • "cm" — centimeters

  • "in" — inches

  • "mm" — millimeters

  • "pc" — picas

  • "pt" — points

Note

When the PPT API creates an mlreportgen.ppt.Table object, this property value is specified in English Metric Units (EMU). If you set this property, you must use one of the units in the previous list.

Attributes:

NonCopyable
true

Data Types: char | string

Upper-left y-coordinate position, specified as a character vector or string scalar that consists of a number followed by an abbreviation for a unit of measurement. For example, "5in" specifies five inches. Valid abbreviations are:

  • "px" — pixels

  • "cm" — centimeters

  • "in" — inches

  • "mm" — millimeters

  • "pc" — picas

  • "pt" — points

Note

When the PPT API creates an mlreportgen.ppt.Table object, this property value is specified in English Metric Units (EMU). If you set this property, you must use one of the units in the previous list.

Attributes:

NonCopyable
true

Data Types: char | string

Width of table, specified as a character vector or string scalar that consists of a number followed by an abbreviation for a unit of measurement. For example, '5in' specifies five inches. Valid abbreviations are:

  • "px" — pixels

  • "cm" — centimeters

  • "in" — inches

  • "mm" — millimeters

  • "pc" — picas

  • "pt" — points

Height of table, specified as a character vector or string scalar that consists of a number followed by an abbreviation for a unit of measurement. For example, '5in' specifies five inches. Valid abbreviations are:

  • "px" — pixels

  • "cm" — centimeters

  • "in" — inches

  • "mm" — millimeters

  • "pc" — picas

  • "pt" — points

If the table height is specified and the row height is not specified for any row, the height of all rows is the same. The row height is determined by dividing the table height by the number of rows. If the height is specified for at least one row, the PPT API ignores the table height. Microsoft PowerPoint determines the height of the rows for which the height is not specified.

Table formatting, specified as a cell array of PPT format objects. Formats that do not apply to a Table object are ignored.

Parent of this object, specified as a PPT API object. A PPT API object must only have one parent.

Attributes:

SetAccess
private
NonCopyable
true

Child elements of mlreportgen.ppt.Table object, specified as a cell array of PPT API objects.

Attributes:

NonCopyable
true

Tag for the mlreportgen.ppt.Table object, specified as a character vector or string scalar. The PPT API generates a session-unique tag as part of the creation of this object. The generated tag has the form CLASS:ID, where CLASS is the object class and ID is the value of the Id property of the object. Specify your own tag value to help you identify where to look when an issue occurs during document generation.

Attributes:

NonCopyable
true

Data Types: char | string

Object identifier for the mlreportgen.ppt.Table object, specified as a character vector or string scalar. The PPT API generates a session-unique identifier when it creates the document element object. You can specify your own value for Id.

Attributes:

NonCopyable
true

Data Types: char | string

Methods

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Examples

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Open Live Script

Use mlreportgen.ppt.Table objects to include tables in a presentation.

Create a presentation.

import mlreportgen.ppt.*

ppt = Presentation('myTablePresentation.pptx');
open(ppt);

slide1 = add(ppt,'Title and Table');
slide2 = add(ppt,'Title and Table');

Create a table from a cell array.

table1 = Table({'a','b';'c','d'});
table1.Children(1).FontColor = 'red';
table1.Children(2).FontColor = 'green';

Use the find method to find the slides that have objects with a Name property set to Table. The default PPT API Title and Table layout slide has a Table object.

contents = find(ppt,'Table');

Replace the contents of the first slide with table1.

replace(contents(1),table1);

Create a second table from the output of the MATLAB® magic function.

table2 = Table(magic(9));

Replace the contents of the second slide with table2.

replace(contents(2),table2);

Close and view the presentation.

close(ppt);
rptview(ppt);

Here are the slides in the generated presentation:

Open Live Script

To specify the order of the columns of a table in a presentation, use the FlowDirection property of the Table object.

Create a presentation.

import mlreportgen.ppt.*
ppt = Presentation('myFlowDirection.pptx');
open(ppt);

Add a slide to a presentation.

slide = add(ppt,'Title and Content');

Create a table and specify the table flow direction.

t = Table({'entry(1,1)','entry(1,2)';'entry(2,1)','entry(2,2)'});
t.FlowDirection = 'RightToLeft';

Add the slide to the table.

replace(slide,'Content',t);

Close and view the presentation.

close(ppt);
rptview(ppt);

Here is the slide in the generated presentation:

Version History

Introduced in R2015b

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