find the next shape with a special tag - vba

Question

For internal communication purposes in a group of people I have created a macro adding comment fields to a slide - not those of PPT itself.
Dim shp As Shape
Dim sld As Slide
'Comment field
On Error GoTo ErrMsg
If ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.Count <> 1 Then
MsgBox "This function cannot be used for several slides at the same time"
Exit Sub
Else
Set sld = Application.ActiveWindow.View.Slide
Set shp = sld.Shapes.AddShape(Type:=msoShapeRectangle, Left:=0, Top:=104.88182, Width:=198.42507, Height:=28.913368)
shp.Fill.Visible = msoTrue
shp.Fill.Transparency = 0
shp.Fill.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(211, 61, 95)
shp.Line.Visible = msoTrue
shp.Line.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(255, 255, 255)
shp.Line.Weight = 0.75
shp.Tags.Add "COMMENT", "YES"
shp.Select
shp.TextFrame.TextRange.Font.Color.RGB = RGB(255, 255, 255)
shp.TextFrame.TextRange.Characters.Text = "Comment: "
shp.TextFrame.TextRange.Paragraphs.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = ppAlignLeft
shp.TextFrame.VerticalAnchor = msoAnchorTop
shp.TextFrame.TextRange.Font.Size = 12
shp.TextFrame.TextRange.Font.Name = "Arial"
shp.TextFrame.TextRange.Font.Bold = msoTrue
shp.TextFrame.TextRange.Font.Italic = msoFalse
shp.TextFrame.TextRange.Font.Underline = msoFalse
shp.TextFrame.Orientation = msoTextOrientationHorizontal
shp.TextFrame.MarginBottom = 7.0866097
shp.TextFrame.MarginLeft = 7.0866097
shp.TextFrame.MarginRight = 7.0866097
shp.TextFrame.MarginTop = 7.0866097
shp.TextFrame.WordWrap = msoTrue
shp.TextFrame.AutoSize = ppAutoSizeShapeToFitText
shp.TextFrame.TextRange.Select
End If
Exit Sub
ErrMsg:
MsgBox "Please select a slide"
End Sub
Works well.
I have tagged them, because I want it to be easy to delete all of them at once, e.g., in case you find comments 5 minutes before you have to present. Here's my way to delete them:
Sub CommDel()
Dim sld As Slide
Dim L As Long
If MsgBox("Do you want to delete ALL comments from the entire presentation?", vbYesNo) <> vbYes Then Exit Sub
On Error Resume Next
For Each sld In ActivePresentation.Slides
For L = sld.Shapes.Count To 1 Step -1
If sld.Shapes(L).Tags("COMMENT") = "YES" Then sld.Shapes(L).Delete
Next L
Next sld
End Sub
Works fine, too.
Third step I would like to do, is creating a third macro, called "find next comment". On every click it jumps to the next shape tagged with the tag "COMMENT", no matter if that shape is on the same slide or the next or somewhere else in the presentation. Just the next one, where ever it is. And now I'm completely lost. I am able to do something to all tagged shapes on one slide or inthe entire presentation - as you can see in the function to delete. But what I'm looking for is not selecting all shapes at the same time. In another try I was able to find the first one - but after clicking the macro again nothing seemed to happen, because the macro started searching at the same point and selected the same shape again and again, never jumping to the next one, except I deleted the first one.
Would be great to read your ideas. Thank you in advance. But be careful, I'm far from being a good programmer. ;-)

Answer 1

This starts at the current slide and works toward the end, dropping out of the Sub as soon as the first comment is found:
Sub FindNextComment()
Dim oSlide As Slide
Dim oShape As Shape
Set oSlide = ActiveWindow.View.Slide
For Each oShape In oSlide.Shapes
If oShape.Tags.Count > 0 Then
For y = 1 To oShape.Tags.Count
If oShape.Tags.Name(y) = "COMMENT" Then
oShape.Select
Exit Sub
End If
Next y
End If
Next oShape
For x = oSlide.SlideIndex + 1 To ActivePresentation.Slides.Count
For Each oShape In ActivePresentation.Slides(x).Shapes
If oShape.Tags.Count > 0 Then
For y = 1 To oShape.Tags.Count
If oShape.Tags.Name(y) = "COMMENT" Then
ActivePresentation.Slides(x).Select
oShape.Select
Exit Sub
End If
Next y
End If
Next oShape
Next x
End Sub
Bonus VBA Tip: You can make your code run a little faster by using With statements:
With shp.TextFrame
.MarginBottom = 7.0866097
.MarginLeft = 7.0866097
.MarginRight = 7.0866097
.MarginTop = 7.0866097
.WordWrap = msoTrue
.AutoSize = ppAutoSizeShapeToFitText
.Orientation = msoTextOrientationHorizontal
.VerticalAnchor = msoAnchorTop
With .TextRange
.Characters.Text = "Comment: "
.Paragraphs.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = ppAlignLeft
With .Font
.Size = 12
.Name = "Arial"
.Bold = msoTrue
.Italic = msoFalse
.Underline = msoFalse
End With
End With
End With