Article ID: 162090
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 Q162090
SUMMARY
This article contains a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro (Sub procedure) that turns off the Mouse Click and Mouse Over events for every object within the active presentation. At the end of the macro a message box is displayed indicating if any changes were made to the presentation.
MORE INFORMATION
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Sample Visual Basic Procedure
Sub ResetActionSettings()
Dim SlideObject As Slide
Dim ShapeObject As Shape
Dim MouseClickCount As Long
Dim MouseOverCount As Long
Dim Total As Long
' Initialize the counters.
MouseClickCount = 0
MouseOverCount = 0
Total = 0
' 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
' See whether object has Mouse click events.
With ShapeObject.ActionSettings(ppMouseClick)
' Reset the object action to none, add 1 to counter.
If .Action <> ppActionNone Then
.Action = ppActionNone
MouseClickCount = MouseClickCount + 1
End If
End With
' See whether object has mouse over events.
With ShapeObject.ActionSettings(ppMouseOver)
' Reset the object action to none.
If .Action <> ppActionNone Then
.Action = ppActionNone
MouseOverCount = MouseOverCount + 1
End If
End With
Next ShapeObject
Next SlideObject
' See whether any objects were changed.
If MouseOverCount = 0 And MouseClickCount = 0 Then
MsgBox "No objects had mouse events. No changes were made " _
& "to the presentation.", vbInformation, _
"No Mouse Events Found"
Else
' This is the total number of objects changed.
Total = MouseOverCount + MouseClickCount
' Set up the message box.
If Total = 1 Then
MsgBox "The action settings were successfully reset.", _
vbInformation, Total & " Object Reset"
Else
MsgBox "The action settings were successfully reset.", _
vbInformation, Total & " Objects Reset"
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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