How to Remove Chart from a PowerPoint Slide in C#, VB.NET

In previous topics, we demonstrated how to create, format, protect and copy chart in PowerPoint. In this article, we'll show you how to remove chart from a specific slide by using Spire.Presentation.

Below is a sample document which contains a chart and a textbox on the first slide, then we'll remove the chart from the slide.

Code Snippets:

Step 1: Instantiate a Presentation object and load the PowerPoint document.

Presentation ppt = new Presentation();
ppt.LoadFromFile("Sample.pptx");

Step 2: Get the first slide from the document.

ISlide slide = ppt.Slides[0];

Step 3: Remove chart from the slide.

for(int i = 0; i < slide.Shapes.Count; i++)
{
    IShape shape = slide.Shapes[i] as IShape;
    if(shape is IChart)
    {
        slide.Shapes.Remove(shape);
    }
}

Step 4: Save the document.

ppt.SaveToFile("result.pptx", FileFormat.Pptx2010);

Effective screenshot:

How to Remove Chart from a PowerPoint Slide in C#, VB.NET

Full code:

[C#]

using Spire.Presentation;
using Spire.Presentation.Charts;

namespace Remove_Chart_in_PowerPoint
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Presentation ppt = new Presentation();
            ppt.LoadFromFile("Sample.pptx");
            ISlide slide = ppt.Slides[0];
            for(int i = 0; i < slide.Shapes.Count; i++)
            {
                IShape shape = slide.Shapes[i] as IShape;
                if(shape is IChart)
                {
                    slide.Shapes.Remove(shape);
                }
            }
            ppt.SaveToFile("result.pptx", FileFormat.Pptx2010);
        }
    }
}

[VB.NET]

Imports Spire.Presentation
Imports Spire.Presentation.Charts

Namespace Remove_Chart_in_PowerPoint
	Class Program
		Private Shared Sub Main(args As String())
			Dim ppt As New Presentation()
			ppt.LoadFromFile("Sample.pptx")
			Dim slide As ISlide = ppt.Slides(0)
			For i As Integer = 0 To slide.Shapes.Count - 1
				Dim shape As IShape = TryCast(slide.Shapes(i), IShape)
				If TypeOf shape Is IChart Then
					slide.Shapes.Remove(shape)
				End If
			Next
			ppt.SaveToFile("result.pptx", FileFormat.Pptx2010)
		End Sub
	End Class
End Namespace

How to Remove Chart from a PowerPoint Slide in C#, VB.NET

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