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Using PowerPoint Scripts & Macros

PowerPoint and other Microsoft Office programs come with VBA, Visual Basic for Applications. VBA is an implementation of Microsoft’s event-driven programming language, Visual Basic, and it lets you run scripts and Macros in the popular Microsoft Office applications. VBA enables building user defined functions, automating processes and accessing Windows API and other low-level functionality through dynamic-link …

What is a Macro?

You might have downloaded an Office template and received a prompt to enable macros. You might also have noticed that the prompt also comes with a warning that enabling macros can be harmful for your computer. But macros aren’t exclusive to Microsoft Office files, as a macros are widely used by programmers around the world …

Record Macro in PowerPoint 2010

Record Macro in PowerPoint 2010

Macro recording is a great way to record steps in PowerPoint and other Microsoft Office programs. Unfortunately PowerPoint 2010 has no Macro Recorder (for any reason the team behind PowerPoint decided to remove this feature from PowerPoint 2010 and 2013) and writing VBA code is the only way to create macros. If you have access …

Excel2PowerPoint: Convert Excel to PowerPoint

Excel to PowerPoint is an interesting open source project available in SourceForge that you can use to convert an Excel spreadsheet into a PowerPoint presentation. The application is bundled inside an Excel spreadsheet using Macros. As soon as you download the project from the online repository, you will need to unzip and open Excel To Powerpoint.xls …