Microsoft KB Archive/222770

= PPT2000: Sample Code to Animate All Graph Objects =

Article ID: 222770

Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q222770





SUMMARY
This article contains a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro (Sub procedure) that finds all Microsoft Graph 2000 objects in the active presentation and applies an entry custom animation to each one. The macro randomly chooses which animation effect to apply to each graph.



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Sample Visual Basic Procedure
Sub GraphAnimationRandomizor

Const NumEffects As Byte = 58

Dim SlideObject As Slide Dim ShapeObject As Shape Dim HoldRandomValue As Byte

' Make an array to store all the different types ' of Entry Animation Effects Dim EffectList(1 To NumEffects) As Long

Dim GraphCount As Long

' Initialize the graph counter GraphCount = 0

' Set up the Effect list SetUpEffectList EffectList

' Outer loop goes through every slide in the Active presentation For Each SlideObject In Application.ActivePresentation.Slides

' Inner loop goes through every shape in the presentation For Each ShapeObject In SlideObject.Shapes

' Check if the shape is an OLE object If ShapeObject.Type = msoEmbeddedOLEObject Then

' Check if the shape is a graph If ShapeObject.OLEFormat.ProgID = "MSGraph.Chart.8" Then

With ShapeObject.AnimationSettings

' This property must be set to True for any of the ' other properties of the AnimationSettings object ' to take effect. .Animate = msoTrue

' Get a Random number Randomize HoldRandomValue = Int((NumEffects * Rnd) + 1)

' Assigns a random animatation to the graph .EntryEffect = EffectList(HoldRandomValue) End With

' Increment the graph counter GraphCount = GraphCount + 1 End If

End If

Next ShapeObject

Next SlideObject

' Check if any graphs were changed If GraphCount = 0 Then MsgBox "No Graphs are available. No changes were made " _ & "to the presentation.", vbInformation, "No Graphs" Else

' Set up the message box If GraphCount = 1 Then MsgBox "One Graph was given a random custom animation.", _ vbInformation, "Random Custom Animation" Else MsgBox "Suscessfully applied a custom animation to all " _ & "Graphs.", vbInformation, GraphCount & " Graphs Animated" End If

End If

End Sub

' Assigns effect constants to the List Array Sub SetUpEffectList(ByRef List As Long)

' Appear List(1) = ppEffectAppear

' Fly Effects List(2) = ppEffectFlyFromBottom List(3) = ppEffectFlyFromBottomLeft List(4) = ppEffectFlyFromBottomRight List(5) = ppEffectFlyFromLeft List(6) = ppEffectFlyFromRight List(7) = ppEffectFlyFromTop List(8) = ppEffectFlyFromTopLeft List(9) = ppEffectFlyFromTopRight

' Blinds Effects List(10) = ppEffectBlindsHorizontal List(11) = ppEffectBlindsVertical

' Box Effects List(12) = ppEffectBoxIn List(13) = ppEffectBoxOut

' Checkerboard Effects List(14) = ppEffectCheckerboardAcross List(15) = ppEffectCheckerboardDown

' Crawl Effects List(16) = ppEffectCrawlFromDown List(17) = ppEffectCrawlFromLeft List(18) = ppEffectCrawlFromRight List(19) = ppEffectCrawlFromUp

' Dissolve List(20) = ppEffectDissolve

' Flash Effect List(21) = ppEffectFlashOnceFast List(22) = ppEffectFlashOnceMedium List(23) = ppEffectFlashOnceSlow

' Peek Effect List(24) = ppEffectPeekFromDown List(25) = ppEffectPeekFromLeft List(26) = ppEffectPeekFromRight List(27) = ppEffectPeekFromUp

' Random Effects List(28) = ppEffectRandomBarsHorizontal List(29) = ppEffectRandomBarsVertical

' Spiral List(30) = ppEffectSpiral

' Split Effects List(31) = ppEffectSplitHorizontalIn List(32) = ppEffectSplitHorizontalOut List(33) = ppEffectSplitVerticalIn List(34) = ppEffectSplitVerticalOut

' Stretch Effects List(35) = ppEffectStretchAcross List(36) = ppEffectStretchDown List(37) = ppEffectStretchLeft List(38) = ppEffectStretchRight List(39) = ppEffectStretchUp

' Strips Effects List(40) = ppEffectStripsDownLeft List(41) = ppEffectStripsDownRight List(42) = ppEffectStripsLeftDown List(43) = ppEffectStripsLeftUp List(44) = ppEffectStripsRightDown List(45) = ppEffectStripsRightUp List(46) = ppEffectStripsUpLeft List(47) = ppEffectStripsUpRight

' Swivel List(48) = ppEffectSwivel

' Wipe Effects List(49) = ppEffectWipeDown List(50) = ppEffectWipeLeft List(51) = ppEffectWipeRight List(52) = ppEffectWipeUp

' Zoom Effects List(53) = ppEffectZoomBottom List(54) = ppEffectZoomCenter List(55) = ppEffectZoomIn List(56) = ppEffectZoomInSlightly List(57) = ppEffectZoomOut List(58) = ppEffectZoomOutSlightly

End Sub

