Remove Comments and Comment Authors from PPT in Python

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

Remove Comments from PPT via Python

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

Remove Comments from PPT in Python

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

    presentation.comment_authors.clear()
    presentation.save("presentation-without-comments.ppt", slides.export.SaveFormat.PPT)

How to Remove Comments from PPT via Python

Follow these steps to remove all comments and comment authors from a PPT presentation.

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

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Remove PPT 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 PPT files.

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

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Other Supported Annotation Formats

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