I have powerpoint presentation with multiple master slides.I want to access current active powerpoint presentation slide master in master view using InterOp API and VB.net. When I tried to access active slide master it always select the first slide master instead of active master slide.I tried it with slides and I could access current slide.But in slideMaster view I couldn't find way to access specified slide master.
If(ActiveWindow.ActivePane.ViewType = PowerPoint.PpViewType.ppViewSlideMaster) Then 'condition
ActivePresentation.Slides(2) 'this way I can access specified slide.
ActivePresentation.SlideMaster
If by "active slide master" you mean the slide master used by the currently selected slide you can access it via
ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange(1).Design.SlideMaster
Or likewise for the master of the first slide in the presentation
ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Design.SlideMaster
Or in slide master view
If ActiveWindow.ActivePane.ViewType = ppViewMasterThumbnails Or _
ActiveWindow.ActivePane.ViewType = ppViewSlideMaster Then
ActiveWindow.View.Slide...
End If
Debug.Print ActiveWindow.View.Slide.Name
Debug.Print ActiveWindow.View.Slide.Design.Name
In Slide Master view, PPT 2010 (and probably 2007 too), the first line gives you the name of the currently selected Layout or Master, the second gives you the name of the Design that underlies the master.
In a multi-master presentation, you look at the Designs collection to arrive at the masters.
Other versions of PPT work differently. This explains more about designs, layouts, masters, lions, tigers and bears, o my:
Slides, Masters, Designs, Layouts ... how do they all fit together?
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I would like to create an Action Plan section within my PowerPoint presentation based on customer selections from various slides in presentation mode. I would like to present the topic slide and have the ability to select 1 or more items from it and once through each topic slide, copy and paste their selections beginning with the topic, followed by their selection. I have attached images of the PowerPoint. Slides 2 - 4 are topic slide examples, each containing a few comments to select from. Slide 5 is the Action Plan slide that captures their selections and is an example of what I am hoping for. I made an attempt at the coding, but failed horribly.
Removing my question. Will revise it and submit along with my coding attempt.
I need to use a template that's used in a separate PowerPoint on a PowerPoint that's made using vba (I'll refer to the one vba makes as "this:).
The way I was doing it was getting the custom layout from the slide master in the template PowerPoint and setting it equal to this PowerPoint custom layout.
What was happening was that it looked like this PowerPoint was completely relying on the template in the template PowerPoint ( I guess it was a direct reference). When I closed that one it also closed this PowerPoint. How do I copy a template (custom layout) into another PowerPoint so it's not a direct reference and relying on template slide to constantly be open
You can copy a slide master (and all its associated layouts) you like from one presentation into another.
Copy the slide master from the first presentation
Open both presentations: the one you want to copy a slide master from, and the one you want to paste the slide master into.
In the presentation that has the slide master, you want to copy, on the View tab, select Slide Master.
In the slide thumbnail pane, right-click the slide master, and then select Copy.
Paste the slide master into the new presentation
On the View tab, select Switch Windows, and then select the presentation that you want to paste the slide master to.
On the View tab, select Slide Master.
In the thumbnail pane, right-click the slide master, and then do one of the following;
3.1. To take on the theme colours, fonts, and effects of the destination presentation that you are pasting to, click Use Destination Theme.
3.2. To maintain the theme colours, fonts, and effects of the presentation that you are copying from, click Keep Source Formatting.
When you're finished, select Close Master View.
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Follow the instructions with pictures given here.
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.
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 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.