Article ID: 285445
Article Last Modified on 3/19/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
- Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q285445
SYMPTOMS
When you have a Visual Basic for Applications event handler that uses the WindowActivate or WindowDeactivate events, the following actions may not cause the event handle to run:
- Switching between the Visual Basic Editor and a PowerPoint presentation.
- Switching from a PowerPoint presentation to a currently running PowerPoint slideshow.
- Switching between a PowerPoint presentation and another program.
CAUSE
This behavior can occur because switching between the Visual Basic Editor and a presentation or between any program and a presentation does not cause WM_ACTIVATEAPP and WM_MDIACTIVATE messages to be sent by Microsoft Windows. Windows instead sends a WM_ACTIVATE message, which PowerPoint cannot capture.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
MORE INFORMATION
Additional query words: PPT kbnoOfficeAlertID PPT2007
Keywords: kbbug kbpending KB285445
