Microsoft KB Archive/222789

= PPT2000: Sample Code to Name a Slide =

Article ID: 222789

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 Q222789





SUMMARY
This article contains a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro (Sub procedure) that demonstrates how to assign a name to a slide. Once you name a slide, you can refer to that slide by name within your code.



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. 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: The following sample code adds a slide to the end of your presentation, names that slide

My New Slide, and then changes the background color

of My New Slide. Sub NameSlide

' Declare the variables. Dim SlideCount, CurrentView As Long Dim Changed As Boolean Dim Answer As Integer

' Code for error trapping. On Error Resume Next Err.Clear

' Count the slides in the presentation. SlideCount = ActivePresentation.Slides.Count

' Add a new slide to the end of the presentation. With ActivePresentation.Slides

' Change the name of the slide to My New Slide. ' You can name the slide anything you like. You can even ' assign the Name property to a string variable. .Add(SlideCount + 1, ppLayoutBlank).Name = "My New Slide"

' If slide name exists, an error will occur. If Err.Number <> 0 Then SlideCount = ActivePresentation.Slides.Count ActivePresentation.Slides.Range(Array(SlideCount)).Select ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.Delete MsgBox "The slide name is already being used." End End If     End With

' Save the current view. CurrentView = ActiveWindow.ViewType

' Change to slide view. If CurrentView <> ppViewSlide Then ActiveWindow.ViewType = ppViewSlide Changed = True Else Changed = False End If

' This code changes the background of the slide called My New Slide. With ActivePresentation.Slides("My New Slide")

' Stop the slide from following the master. .FollowMasterBackground = False

' Change the background color. With .Background.Fill .PresetGradient msoGradientDiagonalDown, 1, msoGradientFog End With

End With

' Restore the original view if needed. If Changed = True Then

Answer = MsgBox("Do you want to restore your original view? " _          , vbQuestion + vbYesNo)

' If the answer is yes... If Answer = vbYes Then ' ...restore the view. ActiveWindow.ViewType = CurrentView End If     End If

End Sub

