Remove Comments and Comment Authors from ODP in Python

Use Aspose.Slides for Python via .NET to remove presentation comments and their associated authors.

Remove Comments from ODP via Python

Aspose.Slides for Python via .NET provides access to the comments and comment authors stored in an ODP presentation. Load the file with Presentation, clear each author’s comments collection, clear comment_authors, and save the result in ODP format.

Remove Comments from ODP in Python

with slides.Presentation("presentation.odp") as presentation:
    for comment_author in presentation.comment_authors:
        comment_author.comments.clear()

    presentation.comment_authors.clear()
    presentation.save("presentation-without-comments.odp", slides.export.SaveFormat.ODP)

How to Remove Comments from ODP via Python

Follow these steps to remove all comments and comment authors from an ODP presentation.

  1. Install Aspose.Slides for Python via .NET.
  2. Open the ODP file with Presentation.
  3. Iterate through comment_authors and clear each author’s comments collection.
  4. Clear the comment_authors collection.
  5. Call save with SaveFormat.ODP to write the updated ODP presentation.

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Remove ODP Comments Online

The free Aspose.Slides Annotation app is built with Aspose.Slides for Python via .NET, the same API as the code above. Open it and see what the API can do with your own ODP files.

  • Runs in your browser, nothing to install.
  • See how Aspose.Slides removes comments before you write code.
  • Remove all comments from your ODP file.
  • Download the cleaned file.

Other Supported Annotation Formats

Using Python, you can also remove annotations from other formats.