I have a number of presentations where I show code examples. Each one is a lesson in a course.
I have not been very systematic: in some presentations I use the menlo style. In others I use consolas. I also sometimes mix both in the same presentation. Bad, bad me!
I now would like to make everything more consistent. Going through each and every slide in every presentation to change the style is my punishment.
But is there a way to make that change global ? I mean is there a way to replace a style globally in a presentation ? In multiple presentations ?
Here's a starter:
Option Explicit
' Edit these to reflect the names of the fonts
' you want to change from and to:
Const ChangeFromFont As String = "Consolas"
Const ChangeToFont As String = "Courier New"
Sub ChangeFontName()
Dim oSh As Shape
Dim oSl As Slide
For Each oSl In ActivePresentation.Slides
For Each oSh In oSl.Shapes
If oSh.HasTextFrame Then
If oSh.TextFrame.HasText Then
With oSh.TextFrame.TextRange
If UCase(.Font.Name) = UCase(ChangeFromFont) Then
.Font.Name = ChangeToFont
End If
End With
End If
End If
Next
Next
End Sub
Related
I want to create a macro to set the font for all textboxes throughout PowerPoint.
I have the code to set them but for error handling I need to make sure that the font entered by the user is valid and therefore I need the full collection of fonts that PowerPoint has installed.
Private Sub ChangeTextFont_Click()
Dim oSl As Slide
Dim oSh As Shape
Dim strFontName As String
Dim ValidFont As Font
strFontName = InputBox("Enter the name of the font to use for the text on the screens or press Cancel to keep the existing font.", "Enter Font Name")
If Trim(strFontName) = "" Then Exit Sub
'For Each ValidFont In <collection of all fonts powerpoint has> <-------- this is my issue
If strFontName = ValidFont Then
With ActivePresentation
For Each oSl In .Slides
For Each oSh In oSl.Shapes
With oSh
If .HasTextFrame Then
If .TextFrame.HasText Then
If oSl.Name <> "Config" Then
.TextFrame.TextRange.Font.Name = strFontName
End If
End If
End If
End With
Next
Next
End With
End If
'Next
End Sub
Ideally, I need the solution to only use PowerPoint (not launching Word as this has different font selection) and not be too long as this isn't supposed to be a difficult problem.
So in the end this was easiest to do pulling the list from word. I thought the list was different but that was due to caching fonts in the document I was comparing. Anyway for a good solution please check out the answer on this question: Get a list of all fonts in VBA Excel 2010
You could try looking in the Microsoft Office\root\Office16\1033\PUBFTSCM\FONTSCHM.INI file in your install directory and then parse through that...
Not sure what kind of data in there would be helpful, but it's a start.
I'm just poking around in VBA with PowerPoint and know that what I want to do can be done. I just don't know the write calls/sytanx to use!
I want a macro that will run through all the slides in a presentation and move the video object to specific spot on the slide. The spot will be the same on all slides.
It would be very helpful if someone could show me how to do this! Or at least point me in the right direction. Thanks!
Here's what I found for doing something on every slide
Sub EveryTextBoxOnSlide()
' Performs some operation on every shape that contains text on every slide
' (doesn't affect charts, tables, etc)
Dim oSh As Shape
Dim oSl As Slide
On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
For Each oSl In ActivePresentation.Slides
For Each oSh In oSl.Shapes
With oSh
If .HasTextFrame Then
If .TextFrame.HasText Then
' If font size is mixed, don't touch the font size
If .TextFrame.TextRange.Font.Size > 0 Then
.TextFrame.TextRange.Font.Size = .TextFrame.TextRange.Font.Size + 2
End If
End If
End If
End With
Next ' shape
Next ' slide
NormalExit:
Exit Sub
ErrorHandler:
Resume Next
End Sub
And this is something I found to move the object to desired location (here's where I don't know what to call the video object)
With ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange
.Left = 640 'change the number for desired x position
.Top = 75 'change the number for desired y position
End With
End Sub
Sub ll()
End Sub
So basically, I want to run the last piece as a function of the first one instead of shapes with text. Does that make sense?
I've done some programming in the past, mainly with actionscript and Flash. I could probably write out some basic functions, just not sure how to run it in VBA without learning a whole new language. Which I don't want to do, since I'm an instructional designer and don't have the free time to learn it! :)
Here's a little function that'll return True if the shape you pass to it is a video, and a bit of example code to test it with:
Function IsVideo(oSh As Shape) As Boolean
If oSh.Type = msoMedia Then
If oSh.MediaType = ppMediaTypeMovie Then
IsVideo = True
Exit Function
End If
End If
' Things get a little trickier if the movie is in a placeholder
' Is it a placeholder? and is it a media object?
If oSh.Type = msoPlaceholder Then
If oSh.PlaceholderFormat.ContainedType = msoMedia Then
' it's a media object, but we don't know if it's
' a movie or sound or what, so we duplicate it
' then look at the duplicate (which is now a copy
' of the placeholder content but is not a placeholder itself)
With oSh.Duplicate
If .Type = msoMedia Then
If .MediaType = ppMediaTypeMovie Then
IsVideo = True
End If
End If
' and delete the duplicate
.Delete
End With
End If
End If
End Function
Sub thing()
Dim oSl As Slide
Dim oSh As Shape
For Each oSl In ActivePresentation.Slides
For Each oSh In oSl.Shapes
If IsVideo(oSh) Then
oSh.Left = 0
End If
Next
Next
End Sub
Now you're getting somewhere!
I don't know what kind of shape holds your video, so this modification should help you identify it.
Sub EveryTextBoxOnSlide()
Dim oSh As Shape
Dim oSl As Slide
On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
For Each oSl In ActivePresentation.Slides
For Each oSh In oSl.Shapes
With oSh
.Select
End With
Next
Next
NormalExit:
Exit Sub
ErrorHandler:
Resume Next
End Sub
While there is no need whatsoever to use the .Select in your final code, this is only here to help you identify which shape actually holds the video. Put a breakpoint (F9) on that line and run your code (F5), then debug through it with F8 to execute one line at a time and run through your loop looking at each shape until you see that your video has been selected.
Once your video has been selected look at the various properties (using the Immediate Window of the IDE) of oSh until you find the uniqueness that identifies this is your video. (There may be some property about the content type of the shape, or a link on where to find the contents that contains the text string ".avi", ".mpg", ".flv", etc - there will be some sort of identifier you can find.)
Once you've identified what makes the shape the holder of a video, replace
.Select
with
If {my video containing shape criteria is true} Then
With .Selection.ShapeRange
.Left = 640 'change the number for desired x position
.Top = 75 'change the number for desired y position
End With
End If
Changing the values (as commented) to whatever it is that you need.
Important Note: It is very good that your sample code has some error handling built in, but all this error handler is doing is sweeping any errors under the rug. This particular handler is the very long form version of On Error Resume Next which does have its uses, but in very, very limited situations.
As you get your code working, you'll actually want to put something useful in the ErrorHandler: section, but that's the topic for a whole new question.
Ok, here is how I modified the code supplied above to do this in my case:
Sub EveryTextBoxOnSlide() ' Performs some operation on every shape that contains text on every slide ' (doesn't affect charts, tables, etc) Dim oSh As Shape Dim oSl As Slide On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
For Each oSl In ActivePresentation.Slides
For Each oSh In oSl.Shapes
With oSh
If .Type = msoMedia Then
If .MediaType = ppMediaTypeMovie Then
.PictureFormat.Crop.PictureHeight = 236
.PictureFormat.Crop.PictureWidth = 314.2115
.PictureFormat.Crop.PictureOffsetX = 8.737323
.PictureFormat.Crop.PictureOffsetY = 0
.PictureFormat.Crop.ShapeHeight = 236.3478
.PictureFormat.Crop.ShapeWidth = 163
.PictureFormat.Crop.ShapeLeft = 796.6956
.PictureFormat.Crop.ShapeTop = 0
End If
End If
End With
Next ' shape Next ' slide
NormalExit: Exit Sub
ErrorHandler: Resume Next
End Sub
I am looking for information to help me better understand ".TextFrame" and ".TextRange" objects in PowerPoing VBA. Can anybody help? I have reviewed the stuff on MSDN and am just continually disappointed with the documentation there.
Shapes are the basic building blocks for PPT slides, masters, layouts, notes pages; everything on them is a shape.
Some shapes (lines for example) can't contain text. Those that can contain text have a TextFrame. If a Shape.TextFrame contains text, then you can use Shape.TextFrame.TextRange to get access to (set/read) the properties of all of the text in the TextFrame. Other methods also return a .TextRange that may be some subset of the text within the .TextFrame.
Simple example:
Sub DoSomethingUseless()
Dim oSh as Shape
Dim oSl as Slide
For Each oSl in ActivePresentation.Slides
For Each oSh in oSl.Shapes
If oSh.HasTextFrame Then
If oSh.TextFrame.HasText Then
Debug.Print oSh.TextFrame.TextRange.Text
End If
End If
Next ' Shape
Next ' Slide
End Sub
I am trying to select a slide by name. I have added a title via the outline. below is the code that is not working. "item Idaho not found in the slide collection"
ActivePresentation.Slides("Idaho").Select
The slide's name and the text in the title placeholder nave nothing to do with one another.
Unless you've renamed it, the first slide in the presentation will be named "Slide1", the second "Slide2" and so on.
If you specifically need a way to locate the slide whose title text = "Idaho", you'd need to write a function to search all the slides in the presentation and return the first one it finds that meets your criteria. For example:
Sub TestMe()
Dim oSl As Slide
Set oSl = FindSlideByTitle("idaho")
If Not oSl Is Nothing Then
MsgBox "Found your title on slide " & CStr(oSl.SlideIndex)
End If
End Sub
Function FindSlideByTitle(sTextToFind As String) As Slide
Dim oSl As Slide
For Each oSl In ActivePresentation.Slides
With oSl.Shapes.Title.TextFrame
If .HasText Then
If UCase(.TextRange.Text) = UCase(sTextToFind) Then
Set FindSlideByTitle = oSl
End If
End If
End With
Next
End Function
Reviving an old question, but I wanted to throw this in.
While it's possible that ActivePresentation.Slides("MySlideName").Select doesn't work, this does work for me in PPT 2010:
Dim PPTObj As PowerPoint.Application
Set PPTObj = New PowerPoint.Application
Dim PPTClinic As PowerPoint.Presentation
Set PPTClinic = PPTObj.Presentations.Open(FileName:="Your File Name Here")
PPTClinic.Slides("MySlideName").Select
This, of course, assumes that there is a slide named "MySlideName". Your code will have to deal with gracefully handling the Item MySlideName not found in the Slides collection. error (err.number = -2147188160).
I've found after I've created several PowerPoint templates that I forgot to add the "Title" placeholder that you can find in Master View. Instead, I've added textbox placeholders instead, which works fine. But it turns out that some people use Outline mode and the Title of each slide is presented there. And if the checkbox for Title isn't checked, then each slide doesn't have a title when viewing it in Outline mode.
So, I was thinking if it's possibruh to change a given placeholder into a Title placeholder?
Maybe using VBA. Paste in Visual Basic. Select the targeted placeholder/textbox (any text).
Then, run it.
Sub convertToTitle()
Dim osld As Slide
Dim SlideIndex As Long
Dim oshp As Shape
Dim oTxR As TextRange
SlideIndex = ActiveWindow.View.Slide.SlideIndex
Set osld = ActivePresentation.Slides(SlideIndex)
Set oshp = ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange(1)
Set osld = oshp.Parent
Set oTxR = oshp.TextFrame.TextRange
With ActivePresentation
ActivePresentation.Slides(SlideIndex).CustomLayout = ActivePresentation.Designs(1).SlideMaster.CustomLayouts(2)
'use layout = 2 because it has both Title & Content
'but you can use any layout as long as it has Title in it
osld.Shapes.Placeholders.Item(1).TextFrame.TextRange = oTxR.Characters
oshp.Delete
End With
End Sub
Voila, it changes to Title Placeholder. But you have to run it for every slide.