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How to extract text
from SmartArt...
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A routine to work around limitations
in extracting text and hyperlink info from smartart using vba
Required: PowerPoint 2007 or
later
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How to determine the
cursor position in slide sorter view...
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A simple workaround to arrive at the
cursor position even if no slides are selected in the slide
sorter view.
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Timeline – The
animation engine in PowerPoint 2002/2003 - Part I
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Introduction to the Timeline object
and more about animation information in PowerPoint 2002/2003
Required: PowerPoint 2002 or
later
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VBA newbie
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A section for the PowerPoint
VBA newbie. Contains commonly requested routines by a beginner
to PowerPoint VBA
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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How to activate the
outline/thumbnails tab
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Set either outline/slides tabs as the
active tab in the normal view, something which is not possible
using the object model directly.
Required: PowerPoint 2002 or
later
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Add items to the '
Presentation' task pane
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Learn how to add items to the
Presentation task pane programmatically or thru registry hacks
Required: PowerPoint 2002 or
later
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Enumerate Hyperlinks
in a presentation and associated objects
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List out all hyperlinks in the
presentation and learn more about how to use the useful Parent
property.
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Inter-presentation
communication
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Two techniques to exchange variable
values between two independent presentation.
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Extract Slide
selection as Presentation
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Select slides in the active
presentation and create a presentation from this
selection.
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Assign
interactive animation
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Code which illustrates how to assign
an animation to a shape and have it triggered by clicking
another shape.
Required: PowerPoint 2002 or later
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Ascertain if a shape
is animated
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Code which illustrates how to assign
an animation to a shape and have it triggered by clicking
another shape.
Required: PowerPoint 2002 or later
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Set table border
colour
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Create a wrapper to format borders
for a PowerPoint table
Required: PowerPoint 2000 or
later
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Delete empty autoshapes/textboxes
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A clean up routine to delete shapes
with no fill, no border and no text.
Required:
PowerPoint 97 or later
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Find and Recolor
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Learn how find and replace one color
with another on fills, text and borders
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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How to apply designs
to various slides (2002+)
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Learn how to assign a design other
than the default in PowerPoint XP using the Design property
Required: PowerPoint 2002 or
later
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Locate specific text
and format the shape containing it
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Search for text in shapes and
apply customized formatting to shapes containing the
specified text.
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Locate and highlight
instances of a specific word
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Locate the keyword and highlight each
instance with desired formatting.
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Export Slides within
a Presentation as files
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Split up slides in a presentation
into individual files while still retaining it's formatting.
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Create a
presentation of slide images
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Make use of the slide thumbnail
available in the notes page to paste slide images into a
presentation.
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Roll Over
Demonstration
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Sample demonstration to simulate a
rollover effect in PowerPoint.
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Break OLE
links programmatically
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Workaround the in-availability of
a break links method in the Object model for linked files.
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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How to extract
images from a presentation
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Routine which extracts all images
from a presentation at original resolutions.
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Copy slides with
source formatting
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Copy slides while still retaining the
source design.
Required: PowerPoint 2002 or
later
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Manipulating Tables in PowerPoint
More
manipulation of Tables in PowerPoint ...
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Learn how to insert MS word
tables into a slide and how to manipulate the native
PowerPoint table shape. The native table shape is supported
only with PowerPoint version 2000 and above.
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Multiple templates in
PowerPoint 2002/XP
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A look at the Designs object in
PowerPoint XP which introduces support for multiple design
templates.
Required: PowerPoint 2002 or
later
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The PowerPoint Add-in
FAQ
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Comprehensive collection of most
commonly asked questions related to the PowerPoint add-ins.
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Toggle images on every
click on the shape
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Code which toggles a given pair
of images every time it is clicked during the slide show.
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Automate PowerPoint
and insert an image on the slide
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Code to insert an image onto a
slide and scale it to it's original size.
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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What is a Bounding Box
in a shape's text range?
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A brief explanation of what the
bounding box associated with the text range object is!!
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Create an agenda
slide with hyperlinks to the slides
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Generate an agenda slide quickly
with hyperlinks to the component slides of the presentation.
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Programmatically
restore an image to it's original state
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Restore the default state
(original size, brightness, contrast etc) of an image shape
imported into the slide.
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Generic function to
obtain the current slide object in any view
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A generic function which accepts
the active window and returns the active slide object in
that window.
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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How to activate a
graph object in a separate window
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Graph object always opens up
within PowerPoint. Lean how to programmatically open the
object in a separate window.
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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How to display
in-built 'Open/Save As' dialogs in PowerPoint
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Manipulate hidden Dialog object
to display the common dialogs. Officially Dialogs are a part
of the PowerPoint object model. We make use of some
undocumented stuff to make it work.
Required: PowerPoint 97,
2000 only
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Offset the data labels
of a graph object on a slide
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Manipulate data labels of a graph
object using code
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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How to determine the
current cursor position in Slide View
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Locate the where the cursor is
located currently, the area of selection etc
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Reference an ActiveX
control on a slide in VBA
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Learn how to get a reference to
the activex control placed on a slide
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Get a reference to
the Title shape on a slide
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Multiple ways in which one can
get a reference to the title shape on the slide.
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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How to
programmatically pause a show.
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Pause a show, this works even in
kiosk mode of a show which otherwise does not provide any
way of pausing a show.
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Print the current
slide in a show
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How to print the current slide
being displayed in the show
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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How to determine
which shape was clicked
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A quick method to ascertain which
shape was clicked by the user.
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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How to update
information within unrelated excel objects inserted in slides of a
presentation
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Makes use of the events supported
by Excel to update values across various Excel objects in
the presentation
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Two methods to play
sound files (*.WAV) files synchronously/asynchronously
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Make use of two API calls to get
the desired effect.
Required: Word, PowerPoint,
Excel ( 97 or later)
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Global Find And
Replace routine in PowerPoint
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Learn to correctly implement the
Replace method in PowerPoint
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Power Point VBA
Equivalent of Application.ScreenUpdating method
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Learn how to prevent the Main
PowerPoint Window from redrawing while performing screen
intensive routines.
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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How to open
a PowerPoint Show (*.pps) file programatically
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Workaround the default behaviour
of Presentation.Open method to open the *.pps files in Slide
Show mode.
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Paste Excel chart as
pictures in PowerPoint (Paste Special)
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Workaround the absence of Paste
Special method. The routine explains how to make use of the
Excel
CopyPicture method to paste charts as pictures.
Required: PowerPoint /
Excel (97 or later)
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Clear all the
animations
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Helper routine to wipeout all the
custom animations set in the presentation
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Exporting All
Slide Titles To A Text File
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Helper routine to export titles
of all the slides in the presentation to a text file. Will
shortly be to copy the titles to clipboard too.
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Restore the Insert
Word Table button on the Standard toolbar (PPT 2000)
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One line routine to create the
original Insert Word Table button on the PowerPoint toolbar
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Simulate a countdown
timer using Sleep API
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Show a countdown on a slide.
Example of using the Sleep API
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Using
SetTimer-KillTimer API in PowerPoint 2000
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Learn to make use of the
AddressOf keyword introduced in Office 2000 to create a
Timer in PowerPoint.
Required: PowerPoint 2000
or later
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Disable the "Update
links" dialog box
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Prevent the Links Update box from
appearing every time you open a presentation with links.
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Quiz in PowerPoint
using VBA
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Make use of the inherent features
of VBA to create a quiz very quickly.
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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Use CreateObject to
Print Slides From A Presentation
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Example of using the CreateObject
Function to print slides .
Required: PowerPoint 97 or
later
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