Microsoft KB Archive/161661

= PPT: Sample Code to Copy Slides to Another Presentation =

Article ID: 161661

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 Q161661



For a Microsoft PowerPoint 2001 version of this article, see 274700.

For a Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 version of this article, see 222780.



SUMMARY
This article contains a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro (Sub procedure) that copies all slides, as PowerPoint objects, from your active presentation to another presentation. If you have one presentation open, the macro creates and then adds the slides to the new presentation. If you have two presentations open, the macro appends the slides to the end of the second presentation.



MORE INFORMATION
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Sample Visual Basic Procedure
Sub SlideCopy

' Variable declarations. Dim SourceView, answer As Integer Dim SourceSlides, NumPres, x As Long

' Count the open presentations. NumPres = Presentations.Count

' Check to see whether more than one presentation is open. If NumPres = 0 Then ' If no presentations are open, stop the macro. MsgBox "You must have at least one presentation open", _ vbCritical + vbOKOnly, "No Presentations Open" End End If

' If more than two presentations are open, quit the macro. If NumPres > 2 Then MsgBox "Too many open presentations. Only two presentations" _ & " may be open." & Chr(13) & "The active presentation is " _ & "the source and other presentation is the destination.", _ vbOKOnly + vbCritical, "Too Many Open Presentations" End End If

' Stores the current view of the source presentation. SourceView = ActiveWindow.ViewType

' Count the number of slides in source presentation. SourceSlides = ActivePresentation.Slides.Count

' See whether only one presentation is open. If NumPres = 1 Then answer = MsgBox("Only one presentation is open. " & _           "This presentation will be used as the source. " & _            Chr(13) & "Press YES to create a new presentation as " _            & "the destination.", vbYesNo + vbQuestion, "Only One " _            & "Presentation Open")

' If no selected in the message box, quit the macro. If answer = vbNo Then End End If

' Create a new presentation for the designation. Presentations.Add

' Set up the slide size to be the same as the source. With ActivePresentation.PageSetup .SlideHeight = Presentations(1).PageSetup.SlideHeight .SlideWidth = Presentations(1).PageSetup.SlideWidth End With

' Switch the destination presentation to slide view. If ActiveWindow.ViewType <> ppViewSlide Then ActiveWindow.ViewType = ppViewSlide End If

' Switch to the source presentation. Presentations(1).Windows(1).Activate

End If

' Change the view to slide sorter if not there already. If ActiveWindow.ViewType <> ppViewSlideSorter Then ActiveWindow.ViewType = ppViewSlideSorter End If

' Loop through all the slides and copy them to destination one by     ' one. For x = 1 To SourceSlides ' Select the first slide in the presentation and copy it. ActivePresentation.Slides.Range(Array(x)).Select ActiveWindow.Selection.Copy

' Switch to destination presentation. Presentations(2).Windows(1).Activate

' Create a new slide. ActivePresentation.Slides.Add _ ActivePresentation.Slides.Count + 1, ppLayoutBlank

' Make sure the new presentation is slide view. If ActiveWindow.ViewType <> ppViewSlide Then ActiveWindow.ViewType = ppViewSlide End If

' Switch to the proper slide. ActiveWindow.View.GotoSlide Index:=ActivePresentation.Slides.Count

' Paste the slide. ActiveWindow.View.Paste

' Adjust the size of the pasted object. With ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange .Left = 0 .Top = 0 .Width = ActivePresentation.PageSetup.SlideWidth .Height = ActivePresentation.PageSetup.SlideHeight End With

' Unselect the object. ActiveWindow.Selection.Unselect

' Switch to source. Presentations(1).Windows(1).Activate

Next x

' Restore the current view to source. ActiveWindow.ViewType = SourceView

End Sub

