Article ID: 171571
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 Q171571
SUMMARY
Microsoft PowerPoint has the ability to create custom slide shows, which are subsets of existing slides within your presentation. When you print a custom show, PowerPoint prints the page number defined for that slide. For example, if you print a custom show named My Show that consists of slides 2, 8, and 13 of your presentation, the numbers 2, 8, and 13 appear on the printed output (assuming you have slide numbering turned on).
This article provides a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro (Sub procedure) that prints out a specified custom show and numbers the pages consecutively, beginning with the number 1.
NOTE: You can change the beginning number by changing the value of the lStartNum constant.
MORE INFORMATION
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Sample Visual Basic Procedure
' These are user-defined data types; you need to place them in the
' Declarations section at the beginning of the module that contains
' the macro.
Type PageBoxSize
l As Long
h As Long
t As Long
w As Long
End Type
Type SlideInfo
ID As Long
IsVisible As Boolean
End Type
Sub PrintCustomShow()
' Change this number to specify your starting slide number.
Const lStartNum as Long = 1
' Ask the user which custom show they want to print.
Dim strShowToPrint As String, strPrompt As String
Dim strTitle As String, strDefault As String
' See if any custom shows are defined.
If ActivePresentation.SlideShowSettings.NamedSlideShows.Count _
< 1 Then
' No custom shows are defined.
' Set up the string for the message box.
strPrompt = "You have no custom shows defined!"
' Display the message box and stop the macro.
MsgBox strPrompt, vbCritical
End
End If
' Find the page number placeholder; if found, pick up the style.
Dim rect As PageBoxSize
Dim oPlaceHolder As Shape
Dim bFound As Boolean: bFound = False
For Each oPlaceHolder In _
ActivePresentation.SlideMaster.Shapes.Placeholders
' Look for the slide number placeholder.
If oPlaceHolder.PlaceholderFormat.Type = _
ppPlaceholderSlideNumber Then
' Get the position of the page number placeholder.
rect.l = oPlaceHolder.Left
rect.t = oPlaceHolder.Top
rect.w = oPlaceHolder.Width
rect.h = oPlaceHolder.Height
' Get the formatting of the slide number placeholder.
oPlaceHolder.PickUp
' Found the slide number placeholder, so set the
' bFound boolean to True.
bFound = True
Exit For
End If
Next oPlaceHolder
' See if a slide number placeholder was found.
' If not found, exit the macro.
If bFound = False Then
' Unable to find slide number placeholder.
MsgBox "Your master slide does not contain a slide number " _
& "placeholder. Add a " & vbCrLf & "slide number placeholder" _
& " and run the macro again.", vbCritical
End
End If
' Set up the string for the input box.
strPrompt = "Type the name of the custom show you want to print." _
& vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "Custom Show List" & vbCrLf _
& "==============" & vbCrLf
' This is the title of the input box.
strTitle = "Print Custom Show"
' Use the first defined show as the default.
strDefault = _
ActivePresentation.SlideShowSettings.NamedSlideShows(1).Name
' Obtain the names of all custom slide shows.
Dim oCustomShow As NamedSlideShow
For Each oCustomShow In _
ActivePresentation.SlideShowSettings.NamedSlideShows
strPrompt = strPrompt & oCustomShow.Name & vbCrLf
Next oCustomShow
Dim bMatch As Boolean: bMatch = False
' Loop until a named show is matched or user clicks Cancel.
While (bMatch = False)
' Display the input box that prompts the user to type in
' the slide show they want to print.
strShowToPrint = InputBox(strPrompt, strTitle, strDefault)
' See if user clicked Cancel.
If strShowToPrint = "" Then
End
End If
' Make sure the return value of the input box is a valid name.
For Each oCustomShow In _
ActivePresentation.SlideShowSettings.NamedSlideShows
' See if the show is in the NamedSlideShows collection.
If strShowToPrint = oCustomShow.Name Then
bMatch = True
' Leave the For loop, because a match was found.
Exit For
End If
' No match was found.
bMatch = False
Next oCustomShow
Wend
' Get the array of slide IDs used in the show.
Dim vShowSlideIDs As Variant
With ActivePresentation.SlideShowSettings
vShowSlideIDs = .NamedSlideShows(strShowToPrint).SlideIDs
End With
' Loop through the slides and turn off page numbering.
Dim vSlideID As Variant
Dim oSlide As Slide
Dim Info() As SlideInfo
' Make room in the array.
ReDim Preserve Info(UBound(vShowSlideIDs) - 1)
' Save the current background printing setting and
' then turn background printing off.
Dim bBackgroundPrinting As Boolean
bBackgroundPrinting = _
ActivePresentation.PrintOptions.PrintInBackground
ActivePresentation.PrintOptions.PrintInBackground = msoFalse
' Loop through every slide in the custom show.
Dim x As Long: x = 0
For Each vSlideID In vShowSlideIDs
' The first element in the array is zero and not used.
If vSlideID <> 0 Then
' Add slide ID to the array.
Info(x).ID = CLng(vSlideID)
' Get a reference to the slide.
Set oSlide = ActivePresentation.Slides.FindBySlideID(vSlideID)
' Store the visible state of the page number.
Info(x).IsVisible = oSlide.HeadersFooters.SlideNumber.Visible
' Turn off page numbering, if needed.
If Info(x).IsVisible = True Then
oSlide.HeadersFooters.SlideNumber.Visible = msoFalse
End If
' Create a text box and add a temporary page number in it.
Dim oShape As Shape
Set oShape = _
oSlide.Shapes.AddTextbox(msoTextOrientationHorizontal, _
rect.l, rect.t, _
rect.w, rect.h)
' Apply the formatting used for the slide number placeholder to
' the text box you just created.
oShape.Apply
' Add the page number text to the text box.
oShape.TextFrame.TextRange = CStr(x + lStartNum)
' Print the slide. NOTE: You must turn background printing off.
ActivePresentation.PrintOut oSlide.SlideNumber, _
oSlide.SlideNumber
' Increment the array element positon.
x = x + 1
' Delete the temporary slide number shape.
oShape.Delete
End If
Next vSlideID
' Restore the slide information.
For x = 0 To UBound(Info)
' Get a reference to the slide.
Set oSlide = ActivePresentation.Slides.FindBySlideID(Info(x).ID)
oSlide.HeadersFooters.SlideNumber.Visible = Info(x).IsVisible
Next x
' Restore the background printing setting.
ActivePresentation.PrintOptions.PrintInBackground = _
bBackgroundPrinting
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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