I guess it might be worth mentioning that I'm using .net 2008 to modify powerpoint 2007 applications, though I think it will be the same for office/excel.

you might have better luck posting this in the ASP.net/Web Development forum

Anyone who has office automation experience know how to reach the TextRange date field or the InsertAsField field. I'm trying to parse out dates that are dynamically generated. TextRanges have insertDate methods that allow you to choose whether or not to insert them automatically, but I can't find any fields in the object model that describe the location of the date or its existence thereof. This has been holding me up for a couple days, so any help would be appreciated.

Hi, I'm trying to build a dll that makes automated changes to powerpoint presentations. I want to go through each slide and change all instances of an automatically generated date/time to one that I will provide. I'm having trouble finding in in the object model, however. I've gotten all the way to the slide.shape.textframe how can I check to see if what is in the frame is an automatically generated date/time? I was thinking maybe text fields store a collection of objects taht aren't necessarily text and I could test against a dateAndTime object or something, but it looks like this is not the case. Any Suggestions?

ActiveX controls will only work with Internet Explorer, however. I bet you could do it with java. I think saving anything to the clients side in the form of an .xml document would be tricky. You might consider using one or multiple cookies.