I have a PowerPoint Presentation with embedded word document. I have a macro button on the presentation which opens the embedded word document, changes some stuff in in, and saves it (word) as PDF document. But as soon as everything is done, the user is shown the powerpoint slides mode while presentation(slideshow) is still running in background. How can I bring the focus back to the running slideshow? The macro is supposed to run in slideshow mode.
Below is my code
Private Sub Gen_Click()
' I am changing the presentation to normal view, in order to execute DoVerb thing!
ActivePresentation.Windows(1).Activate
With ActivePresentation.Slides(2).Shapes(1)
If .Type = msoEmbeddedOLEObject Then
For Each sVerb In .OLEFormat.ObjectVerbs
nCount = nCount + 1
If sVerb = "Open" Then
.OLEFormat.DoVerb nCount
Exit For
End If
Next
End If
End With
'switch back to slide show view
SlideShowWindows(1).Activate
'getting opened word document object to do stuff in in
Set objWord = GetObject(, "Word.Application")
Set objDoc = objWord.ActiveDocument
objWord.Visible = False
'Doing stuff here
'closing the word doc
objDoc.Saved = True
objWord.Quit
End Sub
This code is making power point to return to normal mode with button to Resume slideshow!
Finally got it working using CommandBar controls to switchback to the slideshow mode!
added following code before End Sub
Call CommandBars.FindControl(Id:=740).Execute
If Err.Number <> 0 Then
MsgBox strErrorMessage
Err.Clear
End If
740 is the id for running slideshow from the ribbon menu!
Maybe this works as well and is even simpler:
' change focus to power point
AppActivate (ActivePresentation.Name)
Related
I do a lot of Visio ShapeSheet editing and it would save me a tremendous amount of time to automatically switch to the current shape's sheet when I select a new shape. Let's assume I only have 1 ShapeSheet open, only select 1 Shape, and have all the windows docked on the Visio app (I don't have RegEdit powers to change this).
So far, I've got the following VBA code in ThisDocument:
Private WithEvents vsoWin as Visio.Window
Private Sub ThisDocument_RunModeEntered(ByRef doc as IVDocument)
'Just assume this is the correct window
Set vsoWin = ActiveWindow
End Sub
Private Sub vsoWin_SelectionChanged(ByRef win as IVWindow)
'If nothing is selected, leave
If vsoWin.Selection.Count < 1 Then Exit Sub
'Look for a ShapeSheet (Window.SubType = 3)
For each oWin in Application.Windows
If oWin.Subtype = 3 Then
Application.ScreenUpdating = False 'Pause screen to prevent jitter
oWin.Close 'Delete old ShapeSheet
vsoWin.Selection(1).OpenSheetWindow 'Make new ShapeSheet
Application.ScreenUpdating = True 'Update visuals
Exit For 'Stop looking for ShapeSheets
End If
Next
Exit Sub
(The above code is written from memory since I don't have access to Visio at the moment. Please forgive any minor errors)
This code works, but I'm hoping for a less jittery result. Application.ScreenUpdating = False doesn't seem to do anything in this case: I still briefly witness the old ShapeSheet closing, the drawing window resizing, then the new ShapeSheet opening. Swapping the order (open new window > close old window) is a little less chaotic, but not great. Using Application.Minimize to hide the swap instead is slightly better on the eyes, but still not a smooth transition.
My question: Is there a smoother way to display the active shape's ShapeSheet?
This code works at my side! I just add variable which related with Visio Application - vsoApp.
Private WithEvents vsoWin As Visio.Window
Private WithEvents vsoApp As Visio.Application
Sub st()
Set vsoWin = ActiveWindow ' initialize Window variable
Set vsoApp = Application ' initialize Application variable
End Sub
Private Sub ThisDocument_RunModeEntered(ByRef doc As IVDocument)
'Just assume this is the correct window
Set vsoWin = ActiveWindow
End Sub
Private Sub vsoApp_SelectionChanged(ByVal Window As IVWindow)
'If nothing is selected, leave
If vsoWin.Selection.Count < 1 Then Exit Sub
'Look for a ShapeSheet (Window.SubType = 3)
For Each oWin In Application.Windows
If oWin.SubType = 3 Then
Application.ScreenUpdating = False 'Pause screen to prevent jitter
oWin.Close 'Delete old ShapeSheet
vsoWin.Selection(1).OpenSheetWindow 'Make new ShapeSheet
Application.ScreenUpdating = True 'Update visuals
Exit For 'Stop looking for ShapeSheets
End If
Next
End Sub
My workaround:
Press Alt+F8 keys and run St sub-routine.
Open ShapeSheet window for selected shape.
Select another shapes and so on...
Update with your code i get error like this.
I have been trying to modify a useful piece of code created by David Foster some time ago,
However the one really useful addition to this code is proving hard to find in the references.
I need to get the macro to make sure that the "Slide Image" checkbox is ticked when it applies the notes master to all slides, as some slides have been "frankensteined" into the project.
I am struggling to find any reference to this checkbox in powerpoint references, any ideas?
Sub DReplaceNotesMaster()
' Modified version of code originally posted to
' msnews.microsoft.com public newsgroups by
' David Foster in May of 1999
Dim ctl As CommandBarControl
Dim oSl As Slide
' 700 is the control ID for Layout
Set ctl = CommandBars.FindControl(Id:=700)
ActiveWindow.ViewType = ppViewNotesPage
If (ctl Is Nothing) Then
MsgBox "command not available"
Exit Sub
End If
For Each oSl In ActivePresentation.Slides
' go to the current slide
ActiveWindow.View.GotoSlide (oSl.SlideIndex)
DoEvents
' Bring up the dialog
ctl.Execute
DoEvents
' send it the needed keystrokes
SendKeys "%r{enter}"
DoEvents
Next
End Sub
Oddly, the slide image on a notes page is referred to as a title placeholder. This sub checks every notes page for a placeholder with "Slide Image" in the name and adds it if one is not found. This assumes that someone hasn't used the Selection pane to rename the slide image placeholder. If they have, you'll have to trap the resulting error that displays a message "Invalid request: Slide already contains maximum placeholders of this type".
Sub ShowNotesSlideImage()
Dim oSlide As Slide
Dim oShape As Shape
Dim bTitleFound As Boolean
For Each oSlide In ActivePresentation.Slides
bTitleFound = False
For Each oShape In oSlide.NotesPage.Shapes
If oShape.Type = msoPlaceholder Then
If InStr(oShape.Name, "Slide Image") > 0 Then
bTitleFound = True
End If
End If
Next oShape
If bTitleFound = False Then
oSlide.NotesPage.Shapes.AddPlaceholder Type:=ppPlaceholderTitle
End If
Next oSlide
End Sub
A handy resource for finding control names and ID numbers is Microsoft's Office 2016 Help Files: Office Fluent User Interface Control Identifiers, a free download.
Thanks to 2 posts (here and here), I know how to highlight text of a textbox in PowerPoint with VBA code.
However, the problem of unhighlighting text remains unsolved. I tried to set properties of a non-highlighted textbox to TextRange2.Font (e.g. .TextFrame2.TextRange.Font.Highlight.SchemeColor = -2) but receive errors when trying so (The typed value is out of range).
Can someone help to solve this issue, please?
Additionally, when changing the highlight color
(e.g. TextRange2.Font.Highlight.RGB = RGB(255, 255, 175)) the formatting of my textbox changes, so the font is changing its color from my preset white to black and the font size gets smaller. Is there any way to preserve the original settings for the textbox? Is this happening due to the access of .TextRange2 and not .TextRange?
Thanks for your help!
In PowerPoint 2019/365 it is possible to remove highlight by using built-in Mso "TextHighlightColorPickerLicensed".
This code sample illustrates how to unhighlight text in selected shapes. It finds Runs containing highlighting, selects them and removes highlight by programmatically invoking Command Bar "Highlight" button.
Preconditions: PowerPoint 2019 or 365. Presentation must be opened with window.
Option Explicit
Sub UnhighlightTextInSelectedShape()
Dim sh As Shape
For Each sh In ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange
UnhighlightTextInShape sh
Next
End Sub
Sub UnhighlightTextInShape(sh As Shape)
On Error GoTo Finish
Dim highlightIsRemoved As Boolean
Dim tf As TextFrame2
Set tf = sh.TextFrame2
Do
Dim r As TextRange2
highlightIsRemoved = True
For Each r In tf.TextRange.Runs
If r.Font.Highlight.Type <> msoColorTypeMixed Then
' Indicate that text contains highlighting
highlightIsRemoved = False
' The text to un-highlight must be selected
r.Select
If Application.CommandBars.GetEnabledMso("TextHighlightColorPickerLicensed") Then
' This Mso toggles highlighting on selected text.
' That is why selection must contain highlight of the same type
Application.CommandBars.ExecuteMso ("TextHighlightColorPickerLicensed")
' Unhighlighting May invalidate number of runs, so exit this loop
Exit For
Else
Exit Do
End If
End If
Next
Loop Until highlightIsRemoved
Finish:
If Not highlightIsRemoved Then
MsgBox "Unhighlighting is not supported"
End If
End Sub
Sometimes Application.CommandBars.ExecuteMso() method gives access to features not available via PowerPoint API.
The MsoId is displayed in tooltip text in PowerPoint options window:
If (Documents.count = 1) And (ActiveDocument.Name = ThisDocument.Name) Then
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
Application.Quit (wdDoNotSaveChanges)
Else
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
ActiveDocument.Close (wdDoNotSaveChanges)
End If
I'm having issues with the above code, in that when the code clears that first If statement (meaning it is the only document open and the name of the document is as expected), it still won't close out of the Word Application completely. It instead will only close the document and then leave a "blank" Word window open.
I know it is clearing the first If statement because I wrote a quick check of each element to a debug file, and everything shows up as expected. Additionally, if I step through the code it indeed moves along as it should.
Interestingly/Frustratingly if I step through the code in debug mode and get to the section in the code for Application.Quit, it does indeed quit the entire program! So I'm really not sure why it doesn't work when I just run the code as opposed to stepping through it.
Have tried:
1 - Adding an 'Exit Sub' line after Application.Quit
2 - Setting the Word Application as an object explicitly:
Dim wObj As Object
Set wObj = CreateObject("word.Application")
'Application.Quit (wdDoNotSaveChanges) '
wObj.Quit (wdDoNotSaveChanges)
Set wObj = Nothing
3 - Adding a before close event:
Sub DocumentBeforeClose()
ActiveDocument.Saved = True
End Sub
Any help would be much appreciated!
When having this issue in Excel, I found I had to tell Excel to close all documents after calling Application.Quit.
Because Excel can retain a reference to any workbook after the workbook's window closes (workbook still present in VBA Editor, unreleased object references)…
Because I can't always know that my document is the first document that has been opened by this instance of Excel…
Because I must accept the presence of an Excel add-in that can cause workbooks to appear modified immediately after a save (due to changes to invisible worbook properties)…
Because my usecase requires Excel to quit…
Adapted for Microsoft Word:
'Actual handling of unsaved documents omitted from this answer
If savedAllDocuments Or UserDoesNotCare Then
Application.Quit wdDoNotSaveChanges
Dim doc As Document
For Each doc in Application.Documents
doc.Close SaveChanges:=False
Next doc
End If
I had a simular issue with Application.Quit (quitting Word from within an Excel macro). It turned out, that it was related to the status of Application.ScreenUpdating.
The macro hung when in Excel ScreenUpdating was set to false, but continued correctly with:
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
For all of you, people who make ppt slides with animations like:
Showing bullet points one by one
Showing images one by one or zooming a plot
Showing a border on an active element
Internal navigation / menu / link to another slide
Transitions between slides
Is there a tool that can convert the ppt to PDF and keep each animation in a separate slide, for example?
I know you can create animated slides with LaTeX Beamer that convert nicely to PDF, I have made some of those, but I also have some ppt files that I want to convert to PDF.
This is what I have tried so far:
Slideshare, however not only it doesn't support animations, but internal navigation doesn't work, and the fonts are all messed up.
PDFcreator, the quality is quite superior in comparison, but it doesn't support the animations neither. As Slideshare, it will just put one image over the other. Also, it doesn't support transparency (for example, a text box with a semitransparent bg over an image)
LaTeX Beamer, already mentioned, but I would prefer to avoid typing these ppts content and animations into LaTeX just so that the animations are displayed correctly in PDF.
I have searched SO and didn't find a satisfactory answer to deal with animations. What do you use?
I found a small plugin that splits your powerpoint slides whenever they have animations. So if you have 3 animations on 1 slide he will generate 3 slides with each animation step by step. Then export it in PDF :-)
It worked for me on powerpoint 2010. I would recommend you do a backup file of presentation before splitting. And don't forget to uncheck the "Split on click-triggered animations".
http://www.dia.uniroma3.it/~rimondin/downloads.php
I also found this (but the first solution was free and worked so :-))
http://www.verypdf.com/wordpress/201306/how-to-create-a-pdf-from-powerpoint-with-animations-36850.html
This blog post provides a VBA macro script that will split every slide that has animations (e.g. images or bullet points that appear one by one) into multiple slides, and then you can save as PDF and voila!
Importantly, since it's a VBA script it should work both for Windows and Mac. I've only tried it on OSX (yosemite) with powerpoint 2011, and it worked pretty well. The only issue I had was that slides with animated bullet points (that appear one by one) were split into multiple slides but every slide contained all the bullet points, so I had to delete some manually. Still, for everything else it worked perfectly and it's a small price to pay compared to doing it all manually, especially image animations. Of course you may/may not encounter the same issue on Windows or other versions of PP. In any case, for OSX it's the only working solution I've found so far.
Instructions for adding VBA macros to powerpoint can be found here.
Hope it works for you too!
This blog post provides a VBA macro script that will split every slide that has animations into multiple slides, without keeping the original slides in front of the expanded slides (as is the case in this answer).
The problem that remains with this macro and the other macro, is that the content of a text block with multiple animations is always shown as a whole (e.g. if each sentence of the same text block has a separate animation, all sentences will always be shown together).
VBA Code:
Private AnimVisibilityTag As String
Sub ExpandAnimations()
AnimVisibilityTag = "AnimationExpandVisibility"
Dim pres As Presentation
Dim Slidenum As Integer
Set pres = ActivePresentation
Slidenum = 1
Do While Slidenum <= pres.Slides.Count
Dim s As Slide
Dim animationCount As Integer
Set s = pres.Slides.Item(Slidenum)
If s.TimeLine.MainSequence.Count > 0 Then
Set s = pres.Slides.Item(Slidenum)
PrepareSlideForAnimationExpansion s
animationCount = expandAnimationsForSlide(pres, s)
Else
animationCount = 1
End If
Slidenum = Slidenum + animationCount
Loop
End Sub
Private Sub PrepareSlideForAnimationExpansion(s As Slide)
' Set visibility tags on all shapes
For Each oShape In s.Shapes
oShape.Tags.Add AnimVisibilityTag, "true"
Next oShape
' Find initial visibility of each shape
For animIdx = s.TimeLine.MainSequence.Count To 1 Step -1
Dim seq As Effect
Set seq = s.TimeLine.MainSequence.Item(animIdx)
On Error GoTo UnknownEffect
For behaviourIdx = seq.Behaviors.Count To 1 Step -1
Dim behavior As AnimationBehavior
Set behavior = seq.Behaviors.Item(behaviourIdx)
If behavior.Type = msoAnimTypeSet Then
If behavior.SetEffect.Property = msoAnimVisibility Then
If behavior.SetEffect.To <> 0 Then
seq.Shape.Tags.Delete AnimVisibilityTag
seq.Shape.Tags.Add AnimVisibilityTag, "false"
Else
seq.Shape.Tags.Delete AnimVisibilityTag
seq.Shape.Tags.Add AnimVisibilityTag, "true"
End If
End If
End If
Next behaviourIdx
NextSequence:
On Error GoTo 0
Next animIdx
Exit Sub
UnknownEffect:
MsgBox ("Encountered an error while calculating object visibility: " + Err.Description)
Resume NextSequence
End Sub
Private Function expandAnimationsForSlide(pres As Presentation, s As Slide) As Integer
Dim numSlides As Integer
numSlides = 1
' Play the animation back to determine visibility
Do While True
' Stop when animation is over or we hit a click trigger
If s.TimeLine.MainSequence.Count <= 0 Then Exit Do
Dim fx As Effect
Set fx = s.TimeLine.MainSequence.Item(1)
If fx.Timing.TriggerType = msoAnimTriggerOnPageClick Then Exit Do
' Play the animation
PlayAnimationEffect fx
fx.Delete
Loop
' Make a copy of the slide and recurse
If s.TimeLine.MainSequence.Count > 0 Then
s.TimeLine.MainSequence.Item(1).Timing.TriggerType = msoAnimTriggerWithPrevious
Dim nextSlide As Slide
Set nextSlide = s.Duplicate.Item(1)
numSlides = 1 + expandAnimationsForSlide(pres, nextSlide)
End If
' Apply visibility
rescan = True
While rescan
rescan = False
For n = 1 To s.Shapes.Count
If s.Shapes.Item(n).Tags.Item(AnimVisibilityTag) = "false" Then
s.Shapes.Item(n).Delete
rescan = True
Exit For
End If
Next n
Wend
' Clear all tags
For Each oShape In s.Shapes
oShape.Tags.Delete AnimVisibilityTag
Next oShape
' Remove animation (since they've been expanded now)
While s.TimeLine.MainSequence.Count > 0
s.TimeLine.MainSequence.Item(1).Delete
Wend
expandAnimationsForSlide = numSlides
End Function
Private Sub assignColor(ByRef varColor As ColorFormat, valueColor As ColorFormat)
If valueColor.Type = msoColorTypeScheme Then
varColor.SchemeColor = valueColor.SchemeColor
Else
varColor.RGB = valueColor.RGB
End If
End Sub
Private Sub PlayAnimationEffect(fx As Effect)
On Error GoTo UnknownEffect
For n = 1 To fx.Behaviors.Count
Dim behavior As AnimationBehavior
Set behavior = fx.Behaviors.Item(n)
Select Case behavior.Type
Case msoAnimTypeSet
' Appear or disappear
If behavior.SetEffect.Property = msoAnimVisibility Then
If behavior.SetEffect.To <> 0 Then
fx.Shape.Tags.Delete AnimVisibilityTag
fx.Shape.Tags.Add AnimVisibilityTag, "true"
Else
fx.Shape.Tags.Delete AnimVisibilityTag
fx.Shape.Tags.Add AnimVisibilityTag, "false"
End If
Else
' Log the problem
End If
Case msoAnimTypeColor
' Change color
If fx.Shape.HasTextFrame Then
Dim range As TextRange
Set range = fx.Shape.TextFrame.TextRange
assignColor range.Paragraphs(fx.Paragraph).Font.Color, behavior.ColorEffect.To
End If
Case Else
' Log the problem
End Select
Next n
Exit Sub
UnknownEffect:
MsgBox ("Encountered an error expanding animations: " + Err.Description)
Exit Sub
End Sub
For those of you using LibreOffice or OpenOffice,
there is a plugin available on github that does this very well :
ExpandAnimations
In my experience, all of the standard appear/disappear animations are nicely split. Object movement animations also work (you get a slide with start position and one with end position of the object). I haven't had the chance to test other animation types, but that should cover about all standard needs :-)