Understood. As I said I'm new to this and wasn't sure how much of the code you'd need and how much would just be distracting. The whole code block is; set illustratorLabel to "Adobe Illustrator" set powerpointLabel to "Microsoft PowerPoint" set buttonLabel to "Paste on Active Slide" display dialog "Please ensure the object you want to copy is selected in Adobe Illustrator before continuing." with title dialogTitle buttons {"OK"} default button "OK" set aiApp to application illustratorLabel set pptApp to application powerpointLabel set svgClipboard to "" tell aiApp activate tell front document set selectionCount to count selection if selectionCount is 0 then display alert "Please select an object in Adobe Illustrator before continuing." as critical return end if set selectedPathItem to first item of selection set name of selectedPathItem to "Selected Object" -- set a name for the object to be used in the SVG set myDoc to it set svgFile to export myDoc to file ((path to desktop as string) & "clipboard.svg") as SVG with options {sVGAutoKerning:false, sVGIncludeFileInfo:false, sVGIncludeUnusedStyles:true, sVGObjectIDPrefix:""} set svgClipboard to read svgFile close svgFile without saving delete file "clipboard.svg" end tell end tell tell pptApp activate set activePresentation to active presentation if activePresentation is missing value then display alert "Please open a presentation in PowerPoint before continuing." as critical return end if set activeSlide to slide selection of slide view of active window of activePresentation tell activeSlide make new picture at end with properties {file name:svgClipboard} end tell display dialog "The selected object has been pasted onto the active slide in PowerPoint." with title dialogTitle buttons {"OK"} default button "OK" end tell Any guidance, or pointing me in the direction of the right resources to solve this is greatly appreciated.