Article ID: 162783
Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q162783
SUMMARY
This article provides a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro example that adds a picture to the first slide in the active presentation, sizes the picture to the same size as the slide and sends the picture to the background.
MORE INFORMATION
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Sub MakePictureFullScreen()
' Specify the path to graphic file.
Const strFileName As String = "c:\win95\setup.bmp"
' Specify the slide on which you want to place the graphic.
Const lngSlideNumber As Long = 1
' Store the shape reference.
Static shapePicture As Shape
' Store slide height and width.
Dim lngHeight As Long
Dim lngWidth As Long
' Get the slide height and width.
lngHeight = ActivePresentation.PageSetup.SlideHeight
lngWidth = ActivePresentation.PageSetup.SlideWidth
' Add the picture.
With ActivePresentation.Slides(lngSlideNumber).Shapes
Set shapePicture = .AddPicture(strFileName, _
msoFalse, _
msoTrue, _
0, 0, _
lngWidth, _
lngHeight)
End With
' Send the picture to the back.
shapePicture.ZOrder msoSendToBack
End Sub
REFERENCES
For additional 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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