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Quo Vadis or The Great Thank You?

nullother0 Comment
2 min. reading

The “Remove shadow from all labels” article from October 2, 2025 seems a landmark article for this blog.

It’s one of the very first articles written nearly entirely with use of artificial intelligence and therefore possibly or probably one of the last articles published here. Why? I simply see no point in writing blog posts, if most of the nowadays knowledge is read / crawled / aggregated via AI.

Sure, that it still needs source data (like blog articles) to crawle knowledge. But billions of articles out there in the Internet and thousands of thousands other sources is surely enough.

Not many people uses search engines today. Most of them asks questions and gets answers.

Failing visitors (dramatically; 15% of a couple of years ago) plus a great shift in my life (to finally focus on my family, my health and out-of-Internet life) are great additional factors. Failing number of new articles added here each month and then each year as well…

I intend to keep this blog alive. And I don’t intend to say “bye-bye” after these great sixteen years and after all these 664 articles. But you may expect not many new articles here, sorry.

And, of course, I do want to say THANK YOU to all my visitors. You are and were always GREAT!

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Remove shadow from all labels

nullMicrosoft0 Comment
< 1 min. reading

I needed a quick and dirty solution for removing all labels in all slides in Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. CoPilot has come with the following code:

Sub NoTextShadows()
    Dim oSld As Slide
    Dim oShp As Shape

    For Each oSld In ActivePresentation.Slides
        For Each oShp In oSld.Shapes
            If oShp.HasTextFrame Then
                If oShp.TextFrame.HasText Then
                    oShp.TextFrame.TextRange.Font.Shadow = msoFalse
                    oShp.Shadow.Visible = msoFalse
                End If
            End If
        Next oShp
    Next oSld
End Sub

You need to add it as macro and therefore save your presentation in .pptm format.