Article ID: 222718
Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q222718
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
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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
REFERENCES
For more information about how to use the sample code in this article, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
212536 OFF2000: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles
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