Article ID: 161392
Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft PowerPoint 98 for Macintosh
- Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q161392
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 elsewhere in 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. 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 just 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
REFERENCES
For more information about creating Visual Basic for Applications macros, click the Office Assistant in Microsoft PowerPoint, type how to create a macro, click Search, and then click to view "Create a macro in Visual Basic Editor."
For more information about running Visual Basic for Applications macros, click the Office Assistant in Microsoft PowerPoint, type how to run a macro click Search, and then click to view "Run a macro."
NOTE: If the Assistant is hidden, click the Office Assistant button on the Standard toolbar. If the Assistant is not able to answer your query, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
176476 OFF: Office Assistant Not Answering Visual Basic Questions
For more information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
163435 VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications
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