Microsoft KB Archive/165217

= PPT: Sample VB Code to Create a Custom Slide Show =

Article ID: 165217

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 Q165217



SUMMARY
Microsoft PowerPoint has a Custom Show feature that allows you to show some of the slides in a presentation as a slide show or to reorder the slides when you run a slide show.

This article contains a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro (Sub procedure) that creates a custom show. The macro creates a custom show that includes every slide in the active presentation. You can modify the code to select specific slides to be a part of your custom show.



MORE INFORMATION
Microsoft provides programming examples for illustration only, without warranty either expressed or implied. This includes, but is not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This article assumes that you are familiar with the programming language that is being demonstrated and with the tools that are used to create and to debug procedures. Microsoft support engineers can help explain the functionality of a particular procedure, but they will not modify these examples to provide added functionality or construct procedures to meet your specific requirements.

Sample Visual Basic Procedure
Sub CreateCustomShow

On Error Resume Next

'Change this value to the name you want to use for your 'custom slide show. Const strDefaultName As String = "My Custom Show"

Dim lNumSlides, lSlideList, lCount As Long Dim oSlide As Slide Dim strPrompt, strShowName As String Dim Continue As Boolean: Continue = False

'Get the number of slides in the active presentation. lNumSlides = ActivePresentation.Slides.Count

'Make sure at least 1 slide is in the presentation. If lNumSlides < 1 Then MsgBox "No slides in the presentation.", vbExclamation, "No Slides" End End If

'Initialize the counter. lCount = 0

'Loop through the slides in the presentation. For Each oSlide In ActivePresentation.Slides

'Make the array one element larger. ReDim Preserve lSlideList(lCount)

'Add the slide id to the array. lSlideList(lCount) = oSlide.SlideID

'Increment the counter. lCount = lCount + 1

Next oSlide

'Reset the counter lCount = 0

'Set the name of the custom show to the default. strShowName = strDefaultName

'Loop until a custom show is created. Do

'Increment the counter. lCount = lCount + 1

With ActivePresentation.SlideShowSettings.NamedSlideShows

'Clear the error object. Err.Clear

'Create the custom show. .Add strShowName, lSlideList

'Check to see if an error occurred creating the show. 'A run-time error occurs if the custom show name you specify 'is already being used. If Err.Number <> 0 Then

'Change the name of the custom show strShowName = strDefaultName & " " & CStr(lCount) Else Continue = True End If

End With

Loop While Continue = False

'Create and then display message box. strPrompt = "Successfully created custom show named " & strShowName _ & ". To view the show:" & Chr(13) & Chr(13) _ & Chr(9) _ & "1. On the Slide Show menu, click Custom Shows." _   & Chr(13) & Chr(9) _ & "2. Highlight the custom show you want to run." _   & Chr(13) & Chr(9) _ & "3. Click the show button to run the show." _   & Chr(13) & Chr(13) _ & "NOTE: If the Custom Shows dialog box is visible " _ & "when you run this macro. Close and" _ & Chr(13) _ & "then reopen the dialog box to see the updated custom show list." MsgBox strPrompt, vbInformation, "Custom Show Created!"

End Sub

