Accessing PPA Macros

[Gary Settery]

Dear All

In Powerpoint 97 I created some simple macros which I could access with a
custom toolbar. On upgrade to Powerpoint 2002 I have lost the tool bar and
the functionality. Although Powerpoint says that the Addin is loaded I
cannot create a toolbar and "Assign Macro", a feature of the old system.
Can someone explain how I can access my macros once more before I revert to
Powerpoint 97 again

Gary Settery

 

[Kathy J]

Gary,
Check your security settings (Tools--> Macros--> Security). My guess is that
the setting is "high" or "very high", both of which will prevent macros and
add-ins from loading or running. Set it down to medium and see if that works
better.

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[Gary Settery]

Kathy
Thanks for the advice but this does not seem to be the problem. Apparently
the Addin is loaded, but I cannot find a method to activate the macros. I
used to use some custom toolbar buttons. Also I cannot access the macro
addins in the vba editor! Help please


Gary S

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks for the advice but this does not seem to be the problem. Apparently

the Addin is loaded, but I cannot find a method to activate the macros. I
used to use some custom toolbar buttons. Also I cannot access the macro
addins in the vba editor! Help please

Normally an add-in should create its own toolbars/buttons/menu items and
associate code with them. You've never been able to associate addin code with
buttons that I recall (if you remember the procedure, I can verify it; I've
still got a copy of PPT97 installed here). You *could* associate a macro in a
currently open presentation with a button (and still can; see Tools,
Customize, Commands tab).

This isn't particularly reliable, as it depends on the presentation containing
the macros being open (although in some cases/some versions/some phases of the
moon PPT will remember what file the macro's in and open it when needed if it
can find it. Not something you'd want to depend on.)

Have a look here for a more predictable way of making it work.

Normally you can't edit code in an addin. You should always save your
presentation as a normal PPT file, then as a PPA.

But see this:

http://officeone.mvps.org/vba.html