PowerPoint Generator API
  • PowerPoint Generator API
  • Getting started
    • Quick start
  • API reference
    • token/create
    • generator/create
  • Knowledge base
    • Key concepts
    • Templating your presentation
    • Building your JSON payload
    • Finding shape names
  • JSON/ PPTX Reference
    • presentation
    • slides
    • shapes
      • textbox
      • chart
      • picture
      • table
    • tags
    • Deprecated
  • Examples
    • Presentation
      • Naming output presentation
      • Using multiple templates
    • Slide
      • Change shape size and position
      • Change shape background color
      • Hide or remove shape
      • Replacing tags
    • Textboxes
      • Add text
      • Set font type and size
      • Set font color and font background color
      • Set bold, italic & underline
      • Set text alignment
      • Set text indentation
      • Set text line spacing
      • Using bullet-points
    • Chart
      • Change font settings
      • Insert data
      • Adjust chart legend
      • Appending to data labels
    • Pictures
    • Table
      • Populate simple table
      • Using `text_runs` in Table cells
      • Handling merged cells
      • Update a specific cells in existing table
    • Tags
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  1. Examples
  2. Slide

Hide or remove shape

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  1. Specify name of shape to be amended. This outlines how to find out name of the shape.

  2. Use Remove (boolean) to delete a shape from the slide

  3. Use is_hidden (boolean) to hide the shape. Can be unhidden using PowerPoint GUI.

Before:

Template Presentation

JSON Payload

{
  "presentation": {
    "template": "slides_as_template_hide_remove.pptx",
    "export_version": "Pptx2010",
    "slides": [
      {
        "type": "slide",
        "slide_index": 0,
        "shapes": [
          {
            "name": "Title 1",
            "is_hidden": true
          },
          {
            "name": "Rectangle 5",
            "remove": true
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}
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slides_as_template_hide_remove.pptx