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I'm trying to edit links in the document. Every possible place:

  • textual link (not hyperlinked text)
  • hyperlinked text
  • hyperlinks attached to images
  • links in comments

I've found this thread, but it's only for getting comment's info. I haven't found how to edit comments using pywin32. Since comment's Text is a property, and I haven't see any methods or even private variables to work with comment's text.

In general I'm working with python-pptx, but it seems it doesn't have any comments support. Does anyone know the solution? I faced the same problem with docx files (python-docx also doesn't have comments support), but I've found a "bayoo-docx" fork which adds comments support to python-docx library.

I even tried to work with xml directly through ZipFile, but I only was able to find info about comments. Does anyone have an ideas how to edit them? Again, the main goal is replace links. I mean their textual representation and "target" - the real urls it's refers to.

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  • Please edit your question to clarify whether you want to modify/add comments or hyperlinks. They're two different things. Commented Nov 27, 2022 at 17:08
  • @SteveRindsberg, I edited the question. I'm talking about replacing links, in comments too. As I can see now SharePoint displays usual text as hyperlink, so replacing the comment's text only should be enough, I suppose. Commented Nov 27, 2022 at 19:32
  • Comments cannot contain links, and I have no idea what you mean by "textual link (not hyperlinked text)". I think you need to use PowerPoint's own terms to describe what you're after and NOT use PowerPoint's terms when you mean something else. Commented Nov 28, 2022 at 16:35
  • @SteveRindsberg, by "textual link (not hyperlinked text)" I mean the URL adress which was pasted into a comment. Since comment's doesn't have hyperlinks, it's just a text. So the more specific question is probably "How to edit comment's text in PowerPoint". Commented Nov 28, 2022 at 18:24
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    I found that you can edit the text of comments in the XML. There's a Comments folder in the XML that contains the individual comments. The text of the comment is included there and is editable. Commented Dec 1, 2022 at 15:21
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