Microsoft KB Archive/165216

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Article ID: 165216

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 Q165216

SUMMARY

This article contains a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro (Sub procedure) that counts the number of custom shows within the active presentation and displays a message box indicating the number of custom shows in the active presentation.

MORE INFORMATION

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Sample Visual Basic Procedure

      Sub CountCustomShows()

      Dim lTotalCustomShows As Long
      Dim strPrompt As String

      'Get the total number of custom slide shows defined in the
      'active presentation.
      lTotalCustomShows = ActivePresentation _
         .SlideShowSettings.NamedSlideShows.Count

      'Create the message for the message box.
      If lTotalCustomShows = 1 Then
         strPrompt = "You have " & lTotalCustomShows _
            & " custom show defined."
      Else
         strPrompt = "You have " & lTotalCustomShows _
            & " custom shows defined."
      End If

      'Display the message.
      MsgBox strPrompt, vbExclamation

   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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