ppt table set

PowerPoint: Table - Set

Modify table, row, and cell properties including style, dimensions, text, and formatting.

Path: /slide[N]/table[M]

Table Properties

Property	Accepted Values	Description
tableStyle / style	preset or GUID	Table style
x, y	EMU or units	Position
width, height	EMU or units	Size
name	text	Table name

Style presets: medium1, medium2, medium3, medium4, light1, light2, light3, dark1, dark2, none

Note: Setting properties like border*, text, bold, italic, size, font, color, underline, strike, valign, fill, baseline, charspacing on the table path cascades to all cells.

officecli set slides.pptx /slide[1]/table[1] --prop style=medium2 --prop width=22cm

Row Properties

Path: /slide[N]/table[M]/tr[R]

Property	Accepted Values	Description
height	EMU or units	Row height
c1, c2, c3, ...	text	Set text of cell by 1-based index

officecli set slides.pptx /slide[1]/table[1]/tr[1] --prop height=1cm

# Set cell text using c1/c2/c3 shorthand
officecli set slides.pptx /slide[1]/table[1]/tr[1] --prop c1="Name" --prop c2="Value" --prop c3="Description"

Cell Properties

Path: /slide[N]/table[M]/tr[R]/tc[C]

Property	Accepted Values	Description
text	text	Cell text
font	font name	Font family
size	number (pt)	Font size
bold	bool	Bold
italic	bool	Italic
color	hex RGB	Font color
fill	hex RGB or gradient	Cell background (solid: FF0000, gradient: C1-C2 or C1-C2-angle)
image	file path	Image fill for cell
align	left, center, right	Alignment
gridSpan	integer	Columns spanned
rowSpan	integer	Rows spanned
valign	top, center, bottom	Vertical alignment
underline	underline style	Text underline
strikethrough / strike	bool	Strikethrough text
border	hex RGB	Border color (all sides)
border.left	color and width	Left border
border.right	color and width	Right border
border.top	color and width	Top border
border.bottom	color and width	Bottom border
border.tl2br	color and width	Diagonal border (top-left to bottom-right)
border.tr2bl	color and width	Diagonal border (top-right to bottom-left)
hmerge	bool	Horizontal merge continuation
vmerge	bool	Vertical merge continuation
merge.right	integer	Merge this cell with N cells to the right (sets gridSpan + hMerge on neighbors)
merge.down	integer	Merge this cell with N cells below (sets rowSpan + vMerge on neighbors)

# Style header cell
officecli set slides.pptx /slide[1]/table[1]/tr[1]/tc[1] --prop text="Header" --prop bold=true --prop fill=4472C4 --prop color=FFFFFF --prop align=center

# Merge cells horizontally (the easy way)
officecli set slides.pptx /slide[1]/table[1]/tr[1]/tc[1] --prop merge.right=2

# Merge cells vertically
officecli set slides.pptx /slide[1]/table[1]/tr[1]/tc[1] --prop merge.down=3

# Manual merge (low-level)
officecli set slides.pptx /slide[1]/table[1]/tr[1]/tc[1] --prop gridSpan=3

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Based on OfficeCLI v1.0.28