Microsoft KB Archive/69494

Recorded Keystrokes Don’t Advance Slide Show in Macro PSS ID Number: Q69494 Article last modified on 10-29-1991 PSS database name: W_PowerPt

2.00

WINDOWS

Summary:

When using the Windows Macro Recorder to automatically bring up Windows PowerPoint, load a presentation, and start a manually advanced slide show, you cannot successfully use the keyboard to advance to the next slide. You must use mouse clicks instead of keystrokes when recording a manually advanced slide show as part of a macro.

More Information:

As a general rule it is better to use keystrokes rather than mouse movements when recording a Windows macro because mouse movements aren’t always recorded and played back with 100-percent accuracy. For this reason, when recording the macro, you would generally advance through the slide show by pressing the SPACEBAR or the N key.

However, when playing back the macro that starts the PowerPoint slide show, these keystrokes would not be recognized. The slide show would not advance to the next slide.

A PowerPoint slide show is one of the few situations in a recorded macro for which a mouse click works better than the keyboard equivalent.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in PowerPoint for Windows version 2.00. We are researching this problem and will post new information here as it becomes available.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.