Article ID: 162816
Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q162816
SUMMARY
This article provides a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro that saves the active presentation in PowerPoint 3.0, 4.0, 7.0, and 97 formats.
MORE INFORMATION
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Sample Visual Basic Procedure
Sub SaveAsAllFormats()
Dim FileName As String
Dim ThePath As String
' Retrieve the name of the active presentation.
FileName = ActivePresentation.Name
' Retrieve the path to the active presentation.
ThePath = ActivePresentation.Path
With ActivePresentation
' Save the presentation in PowerPoint 3.0 format.
.SaveAs ThePath & FileName & " 3", ppSaveAsPowerPoint3
' Save the presentation as in PowerPoint 4.0 format.
.SaveAs ThePath & FileName & " 4", ppSaveAsPowerPoint4
' Save the presentation in PowerPoint 7.0 format.
.SaveAs ThePath & FileName & " 95", ppSaveAsPowerPoint7
' Save the presentation in PowerPoint 97 format.
.SaveAs ThePath & FileName & " 97", ppSaveAsPresentation
End With
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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