Microsoft KB Archive/161485

= PPT: Sample Code to Find Slides that Don't Follow Slide Master =

Article ID: 161485

Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft PowerPoint 98 for Macintosh
 * Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q161485



SUMMARY
This article contains a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro (Sub procedure) that checks a presentation to see if any slides have backgrounds different from the Slide and/or Title Masters. If the macro finds a slide that has a different background, it displays the slide number in a message box at the end of the macro.



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Sample Visual Basic Procedure
Sub FollowMaster

' Declare the variables. Dim OmitSlides As String, Message As String Dim Index As Long, Count As Long, NumSlides As Long Dim CurrentSlide as Slide Dim Flag As Boolean

' Used to control the loop. Dim j As Long

' Initialize the index and flag. Index = -1 Flag = False

' Get the number of slides. NumSlides = ActivePresentation.Slides.Count

' Loop through the slides. For j = 1 To NumSlides Set CurrentSlide = ActivePresentation.Slides(j)

' Check to see whether slide is different from master. If CurrentSlide.DisplayMasterShapes = msoFalse Or _ CurrentSlide.FollowMasterBackground = msoFalse Then ' Add the slide number to an array. Index = Index + 1 ReDim Preserve OmitSlides(Index) OmitSlides(Index) = j

' Set the flag to True if one slide is not following the ' master. If Flag = False Then Flag = True End If        End If

Next j

' Display the results. If Flag = False Then MsgBox "All slides are following the master.", vbInformation Else

' Start building message for the message box. If Index < 1 Then Message = "The following slide is NOT following the Master:" _ & Chr(13) Else Message = "The following " & Index + 1 & " slides are NOT " _ & "following the Master:" & Chr(13) End If

' Loop until slides finished. For j = 0 To Index Message = Message & Chr(13) & Chr(9) & "Slide #" & _ OmitSlides(j) Next j

' Display the completed message box. MsgBox Message, vbInformation End If

End Sub

