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Class: mlreportgen.ppt.TableEntry
Namespace: mlreportgen.ppt

Append text or paragraph to table entry

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Syntax

tableEntryObj = append(tableEntry,content)

Description

tableEntryObj = append(tableEntry,content) appends text or a Paragraph object to a table entry.

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Examples

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Create a presentation.

import mlreportgen.ppt.*

ppt = Presentation('myTableEntryPresentation.pptx');
open(ppt);
add(ppt,'Title and Content');

Create a table with three columns.

table1 = Table(3);

Create the first table row.

tr1 = TableRow();
tr1.Style = {Bold(true)};

Create three table entries for the first row.

te1tr1 = TableEntry();
p = Paragraph('first entry');
p.FontColor = 'red';
append(te1tr1,p);

te2tr1 = TableEntry();
append(te2tr1,'second entry');

te3tr1 = TableEntry();
te3tr1.Style = {FontColor('green')};
append(te3tr1,'third entry');

Append the table entries to the first row.

append(tr1,te1tr1);
append(tr1,te2tr1);
append(tr1,te3tr1);

Create the second table row.

tr2 = TableRow();

Create three table entries for the second row.

te1tr2 = TableEntry();
te1tr2.Style = {FontColor('red')};
p = Paragraph('first entry');
append(te1tr2,p);

te2tr2 = TableEntry();
append(te2tr2,'second entry');

te3tr2 = TableEntry();
te3tr2.Style = {FontColor('green')};
append(te3tr2,'third entry');

Append the table entries to the second row.

append(tr2,te1tr2);
append(tr2,te2tr2);
append(tr2,te3tr2);

Append the table rows to the table.

append(table1,tr1);
append(table1,tr2);

Use the mlreportgen.ppt.Presentation.find method to find the slides that have a Content placeholder. In this case, there are two.

contents = find(ppt,'Content');

Replace the table in the second slide with table1.

replace(contents(1),table1);

Generate the presentation. Open myTableEntryPresentation.pptx. On a Windows® platform, you can open the presentation in MATLAB®:

close(ppt);
rptview(ppt);

Input Arguments

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Table entry to append content to, specified as an mlreportgen.ppt.TableEntry object.

Content to append to a table entry, specified as a character vector or one or more mlreportgen.ppt.Paragraph objects.

Output Arguments

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Content appended to table entry, returned as an mlreportgen.ppt.Paragraph object.

Version History

Introduced in R2015b

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