VBA-Ho how to change order of designs in the collection

[Edward]

Hi everybody,
PP 2007
I have two templates in my PP. I used the following code to change the thier
order in the collection
ActivePresentation.Designs(2).MoveTo 1
but this code doesn't work.
Any suggestions how I can change this order. I In other words when you click
on layout dropdown it shows the first templates with its associated layout
and then shows next template with its layout and ... I want to switch those
twmplates position( first goes to second postion and second goes to the first
postion)

 

[John Wilson]

The code seems to work to move the master but AFAIK the layouts dropdown
always shows the last USED master first.

 

[Edward]

Thanks. If you wonder why I need to move the design template positions. I
first insert a design that is used only for the coverpage ( first slide) and
2-3 following slides, then for all other sidles( starting at slide 4) I
need a second design. I apply the new template (ApplyTemplate () ) to slide
4, and I expect after inserting new slides after slide 4 they automatically
use the second template ( the newly used one), but they use the first
template . Of course I can slide.ApplyTemplate() for each newly added
slide, but this solution adds a new design to the design collection (
although I use the same path and .potx for design , it just adds a prefix
1,2,… to the name and adds to the collection) . This is obviously isn’t a
good solution, because I don’t want to end up with hundreds of identical
templates, so I thought if I change the order of design templates It will
automatically use the correct template for newly added slides. Unfortunately
the problem with VBA is, a lot of times methods don’t work the way they are
suppose to work and we need to come up with some tricks to make it work. I
have two more options either just use one template , and because I need two
different title slides I can use the title slide layout , and 07 section
header layout , or I can first apply the second template and at the last
step apply the first template to the first slide !! ïŠ