I am a beginner at VBA.
I am designing a somewhat interactive Powerpoint presentation/s. I want to be able to have three separate Powerpoint presentations open that will link together. I have been trying (without success) to create, in VBA, code which will change the current displayed slide on one Powerpoint file by clicking a button in another. I can hyperlink to the set slide but this causes this slide to pop up on the same screen in which it is clicked, despite it being already open in another screen (I don't want this).
Thanks in advance for any help,
Holly
VBA uses an object model that is a huge hierarchy of attributes and functions that represent the application. You can use this model to view and update attributes to get text, resize, and modify the application. You should look at some tutorials to get you started. When editing your code, you can press F2 to see and explore this object model. You can press F8 to run your code line by line (debug mode) and see what is happening.
To your question, you can access the open presentations in the application.presentations object (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/powerpoint.presentations). You could then use a presentation in that list and use the ActiveWindow.View.goToSlide function (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/powerpoint.view.gotoslide). Here is a free tutorial that I've used in my VBA journey (https://www.tutorialspoint.com/vba/index.htm).
PowerPoint has a Presentations collection that contains all currently open presentations. You can get a reference to any of them via Presentations("name") where "name" is the filename of the presentation, sans extension.
So ... assuming you've got three presentations open, a.pptx, b.pptx, c.pptx you can do something like this:
Sub SlideChange()
With Presentations("c")
.SlideShowWindow.View.GotoSlide (3)
End With
End Sub
If you run the above in any of the presentations, it will change the slide show window displaying presentation c to the third slide.
Related
In Excel, this should be done easily (although form me it doesn't work for some reason):
ThisWorkbook.Parent.Dialogs(xlDialogOpenLinks).Show
or simply
Application.Dialogs(xlDialogOpenLinks).Show
But how can I accomplish that under PowerPoint?
The PowerPoint.Application.Dialogs property does not exist and cannot be called at runtime...
You could loop through the slide and slide shapes, testing if the shape is a linked object or a linked picture etc. and listing out the LinkFormat.SourceFullName.
You could then amend the LinkFormat.SourceFullName.
See example here:
Edit links in Powerpoint VBA
I have this macro that copies excel tables and charts to power point. However the power point has to be visible for it to work. Unfortunately when it is visible and while the code is running and user touches the slides the program crashes.
I use this code to hide the presentation.
Set pres = Papp.presentatjons.open(path + pptfilename, with window:=msofalse).
It works, unfortunately this code (below) which is needed, needs the window or presentation slide to be open to copy charts and tables to the presentation.
Set ppslide = pres.slides(Papp.activewindow.selection.sliderange.slideindex)
Is there a code that substitute the second code so that I could hide the presentation window while running the program ?
Have a look at http://skp.mvps.org/ppt00033.htm
The code there will help you, but does not allow me to post a copy here
I have a PowerPoint presentation which consists of a single slide and some VBA code. The code displays a dialog box (not inside the presentation) which configures the slide.
I need the code to be started when the presentation is started.
I found various suggestions and ended up going with
this one however I am getting inconsistent results!
If I do the following, in sequence, it works:
Open presentation in PowerPoint
Select Developer tab
Select Visual Basic (to open VBA editor)
Close VBA editor
Select Slide Show tab
Select From Beginning
However, if I skip steps 2-4, it does not! I.E.:
1. Open presentation in PowerPoint
2. Select Slide Show tab
3. Select From Beginning
It is almost as though Visual Basic support isn't even loading until the editor is opened.
I also tried adding a slide before my main one with an auto-transition immediately and again, no-go.
This is driving me insane as I need to get this deployed to the rest of my department.
Anyone have any ideas?
It's kind of a known problem.
OnSlideShowPageChange sometimes doesn't fire. To get around it, add any of the Active-X controls from the Developer tab to the first slide. Scoot it off the slide if you don't want it visible.
Somehow the control forces VBA to initialize, so events fire.
After I did this with your presentation, it fired off right away.
I think this is a simple question, but I have spent days searching for an answer and nothing yet.
I have an OLE object embedded into a PowerPoint presentation (created using PPT 2010). I embedded it (a pdf file) through the insert>object>create from file>display as icon method, so that it displays as a little icon on a slide.
My goal is to open it on click of a shape, where the shape is on a different slide from the slide the pdf is on. The pdf is on slide 5, the trigger shape is on slide 6. The goal is to open it during slideshow viewing (and it must be done through VBA instead of animations for other reasons).
I thought the following would work:
Sub OpenMyDoc()
ActivePresentation.Slides(5).Shapes("My Doc").OLEFormat.DoVerb(1)
End Sub
I had assigned that macro as an on click "action" through the insert>links method.
I have also tried the following variations, with no luck (nothing happens at all when I click on the triggering shape):
ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.Slide.Shapes("My Doc").OLEFormat.DoVerb(1)
I also tried:
With SlideShowWindows(1).Presentation.Slides(5).Shapes("My Doc")
OLEFormat.DoVerb(1)
End With
I also tried:
ActivePresentation.Slides.Item(5).Shapes.Item("My Doc").OLEFormat.DoVerb(1)
Other macros (mostly message boxes) in the presentation, and on the same slide work, so I'm sure it's not a permissions or other setting issue.
I am using master slides, but can't seem to trace the problem to that.
You probably saw an error message when you ran your code; the error message explains the problem, though in somewhat Microsoftcryptic fashion. You can only activate OLE objects from Slide or Notes view.
Instead, you can do this:
ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Shapes(4).ActionSettings(1).Hyperlink.Follow
where Shapes(4) is hyperlinked to the PDF you want to launch.
[EDIT]
But since hyperlinking isn't an option, and since you have to be in slide view to activate the embedded object, this works here:
' Activate the presentation window
' You might need to make sure it's in normal view
ActivePresentation.Windows(1).Activate
' Launch the OLE object:
ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Shapes(1).OLEFormat.DoVerb (1)
' And immediately switch back to slide show view
SlideShowWindows(1).Activate
i am developing a large non-linear powerpoint which has many sub sections to it. This has necessitated a table of contents slide (TOC). in this slide i am representing each section with its own picture. also on the slide are 2 buttons which let the user switch between images. The buttons do this by setting the appropriate section image to visible and all the others to invisible, so that only one sections image is visible at a time. my goal is to make sure that whenever the user goes back to the table of contents slide that the slide displays the same section image each time, regardless of which section what entered the previous time, i.e. the image for section 1 should be visible whenever the user goes back to the table of contents. how do i go about doing this?
also, if i can find new sources to learn more about syntax and other vba coding, i would be most appreciative.
i already consult:
pptalchemy.co.uk
skp.mvps.org
msdn.microsoft.com
i just cannot find more good sites that will help.
I don't quite understand the situation, but one possibility:
Add another slide before the TOC. You could make it a duplicate of the TOC slide (with the image you want in place).
Instead of linking back to the "real" TOC slide, link to this one instead.
On this slide, add a rectangle that covers the entire slide, make it 99% transparent and give it a Run Macro mouse over action setting.
Have the macro do nothing more than set the image you want on slide 2 to be visible, then jump to slide 2 (the real TOC slide), eg
SlideShowWindows(1).View.GoToSlide(2)
The mouse over macro will trigger as soon as the user moves the mouse, and since that will trigger a jump from one slide to an identical one, it will be invisible to the user.
most of the solution came from [pptalchemy] (http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/PowerPoint_Auto_Open_Code.html):
I downloaded the custom ui editor for microsoft office
I added the code from ppt alchemy to the custom ui editor for the slide show.
In vba i added the code:
Sub onloadcode()
Debug.Print "Running"
End Sub
Sub OnSlideShowPageChange(ByVal SSW As SlideShowWindow)
If SSW.View.CurrentShowPosition = SSW.Presentation.Slides("TOC").SlideIndex Then
'code here'
end if
end sub
the code executes perfectly now, and i have condensed my table of contents from 9 slides down to 1. Just, don't add features to the code until you have everything in place to accept them. In my case i added the code for text boxes which did not exist yet and that messed up my code a lot. Once i made all of the objects for the code and then added the code it worked perfectly.