Removing Speaker Notes from a set of PowerPoint Presentations

Sometimes you want to prepare a set of PowerPoint presentations for distribution outside your company, and you want to remove all speaker notes from the presentations. This is easy enough to do if you only need to scrub a few presentations, but if you have a lot, then manually scrubbing each one will be tedious. Here is a bit of VBA code to iterate through all presentations (both PPT and PPTX) in a directory, removing the speaker notes from each slide in each deck. Posting this so that I can find this script the next time I need it.

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Sub RemoveSpeakerNotes()
  Set objPPT = CreateObject("PowerPoint.Application")
  objPPT.Visible = True
  strComputer = "."
  Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\" & strComputer & "rootcimv2")
  Set FileList = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
    ("ASSOCIATORS OF {Win32_Directory.Name='E:DirectoryContainingPresentations'} Where " _
    & "ResultClass = CIM_DataFile")
  For Each objFile In FileList
    If objFile.Extension = "pptx" Or objFile.Extension = "ppt" Then
      Set objPresentation = objPPT.Presentations.Open(objFile.Name)
      Set colSlides = objPresentation.Slides
      On Error Resume Next
      For Each objSlide In colSlides
        objSlide.NotesPage.Shapes(2).TextFrame.TextRange = ""
      Next
      objPresentation.Save
      objPresentation.Close
    End If
  Next
  MsgBox ("Done")
End Sub

This was from a Scripting Guy column, but was missing the On Error Resume Next.