We all may agree that sometimes it would be useful to have a plan B even during a PowerPoint presentation in case something is not going as scheduled. For example, if we are delivering an important business PowerPoint presentation where a potential client acquisition and million of dollars of revenue are in play, we may want to …
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 …
VBA (also known as Visual Basic for Applications) adds a new multi-function feature in PowerPoint. That lets you to extend the applications for the several purposes. So, before we go in deep let’s discuss about the basic terms. What is PowerPoint? PowerPoint is a complete presentation graphics package. It helps you to create a professional-looking …
If you need to save a PowerPoint presentation to PDF format programmatically using VBA code, here is a simple macro to do the job. This macro snippet will make possible to save the active presentation to an output PDF file in the same path where you have the presentation saved.
If you are interested to run a custom code when the slide changes during the slideshow, then here is a VBA script snippet that you can modify to run your own code. Basically what we are going to do is to use the OnSlideShowPageChange() event at the presentation level to detect when the slide is changed …
Sometimes you’d need to rename a shape object from the default name to any desired name. Especially if you will deal with VBA code in the future and want to use more descriptive names for shapes and objects. This snippet will help you to rename objects easily using a Macro. To use it, just create …
If you need to start a Macro automatically when a PowerPoint .ppt or .pptx file opens, then here are some tips that can be helpful to accomplish the need. There is a free addin AutoEvents that enables PowerPoint to run macros automatically on certain events. You can download the addin from http://skp.mvps.org/autoevents.htm and it will be helpful …
If you get this alert message in PowerPoint while trying to run a Macro or Macro Enabled Slideshow: “The Macros in this Project Are Disabled” in PowerPoint, then you will need to enter PowerPoint Options and then Trust Center. Here you can disable all macros except digitally signed ones, or enable all macros. Notice that …
In Excel it is straightforward the way to open VBA Editor to edit macros and functions. In PowerPoint you need to do something slightly different. However, it is pretty easy. In PowerPoint 2010 you can just create a new Macro by going to View tab and then click on Macros button. Here a new list of Macros will …
We already know that it is possible to export your PowerPoint presentations to images (a single slide or every slide in your presentation) using the File -> Save As option. However, if you need to do this programmatically you can use VBA Visual Basic for Applications to achieve this task. This can be helpful for example if …
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