Useful PowerPoint VBA code snippets

• Determine the current slide in the Slide View mode:
  
  Sub SlideIDX()
  MsgBox "The slide index of the current slide is:" & _
          ActiveWindow.View.Slide.SlideIndex
  End Sub
  
• Determine the current slide in Slide Show mode:
  
  Sub SlideIDX()
  MsgBox "The slide index of the current slide is:" & _
          ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.Slide.SlideIndex 
  End Sub
  
• Difference between SlideIndex property and SlideNumber property:
  
  The SlideIndex property returns the actual position of the slide within the
  presentation. The SlideNumber property returns the PageNumber which will appear on that slide. This property value is dependent on "Number Slide from" option in the Page Setup.
  
  Go to Page Setup and Change the value of "Number Slide from" to 2 and then while on the 1st slide in Slide View run the following Macro
  
  Sub Difference()
  MsgBox "The Slide Number of the current slide is:" & _
          ActiveWindow.View.Slide.SlideNumber & _
          " while the Slide Index is :" & _
          ActiveWindow.View.Slide.SlideIndex
  End Sub
  
• Macro to exit all running slide shows:
  
  Sub ExitAllShows()
  Do While SlideShowWindows.Count > 0
      SlideShowWindows(1).View.Exit
  Loop
  End Sub
• Code to refresh current slide during the slide show:
  
  Sub RefreshSlide()
  Dim lSlideIndex As Long
  lSlideIndex = SlideShowWindows(1).View.CurrentShowPosition
  SlideShowWindows(1).View.GotoSlide lSlideIndex
  End Sub
• Code to reset animation build for the current slide during the slide show:
  
  Sub ResetSlideBuilds()
  Dim lSlideIndex As Long
  lSlideIndex = SlideShowWindows(1).View.CurrentShowPosition
  SlideShowWindows(1).View.GotoSlide lSlideIndex, True
  End Sub
   
• Insert a slide after current slide
  
  Sub InsertSlide()
  Dim oView As View
  With ActivePresentation.Slides
       Set oView = ActiveWindow.View
       oView.GotoSlide .Add(oView.Slide.SlideIndex + 1, _
                                         ppLayoutTitleOnly).SlideIndex
       Set oView = Nothing
  End With
  End Sub