Microsoft KB Archive/285520

= PPT2002: Exported Slides Not Sorted in Numerical Order in Windows Explorer =

Article ID: 285520

Article Last Modified on 1/29/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q285520





SYMPTOMS
When you save a PowerPoint presentation in a graphic format such as GIF, JPEG, PNG or WMF, the graphic image files are not listed in order when viewed in Windows Explorer. The list of images will look like this when sorted by filename:

Slide1.jpg

Slide10.jpg

Slide11.jpg

...

slide19.jpg

slide2.jpg

slide20.jpg

...



CAUSE
This behavior occurs because the slides are saved with their slide index position at the end of the file name with no leading zeroes. The tenth slide image will be sorted after the first slide image, but before the second slide image.



WORKAROUND
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NOTE: The following macro examples work only in PowerPoint. Visual Basic for Applications macros are not supported by the Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: To work around this issue, follow these steps:
 * 1) Start PowerPoint and then open the file that you want to export.
 * 2) On the Tools menu, point to Macro, and then click Visual Basic Editor (or press ALT+F11).
 * 3) Type or paste the following code in the module:

Sub SortedPicts Dim lSldCount As Long Dim lSlide As Long Dim lNumChars As Long Dim lPadZero As Long Dim strPath As String Dim strExportName As String '  ' First get the number of slides in the presentation. ' Then count the number of digits in this number. ' For example: 12 has two digits. ' The Trim function is to remove any blank spaces ' in the converted number. '  lSldCount = ActivePresentation.Slides.Count lNumChars = Len(Trim(Str(lSldCount))) '  ' Get the path to where the presentation has been saved to. '  strPath = ActivePresentation.Path '  ' Loop through the presentation exporting out each slide ' as a JPEG image. '  For lSlide = 1 To lSldCount lPadZero = Len(Trim(Str(lSlide))) lPadZero = lNumChars - lPadZero '  ' The name is created using the path + &quot;Slide&quot; + &quot;0&quot;s to   ' pad out to the left of the number + the current slide ' index position. '     strExportName = strPath & &quot;\&quot; & &quot;Slide&quot; & _ String(lPadZero, &quot;0&quot;) & lSlide & &quot;.jpg&quot; '  ' Export out the picture with the generated file name. '     With Application.ActivePresentation.Slides(lSlide) .Export strExportName, &quot;JPG&quot; End With Next lSlide End Sub



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: PPT

Keywords: kbbug kbpending KB285520

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