Combo boxes in powerpoint

[Guest]

Hi all:

I had a question about powerpoint. There is a sales presentation I created
for 20 salespersons. Each salesperson works with an account team. I created a
slide for each salesperson that shows that salesperson's account team. I
would like to put in a combo box in powerpoint with the salesperson's names
as options. By putting a salesperson's name within the drop down menu, I
would like powerpoint to display onlythe account team slide for that
salesperson. Does anyone know of a macro that would allow me to do this?

Thanks in advance,

steve-0

 

[Bill Foley]

I have some sample code and a sample file you can download at:

http://www.pttinc.com/ppt_faq9.html

 

[Guest]

Hi:

Thanks for your reply, but i'm not looking to navigate around a document;
rather, what I want to do is have a combobox or option button that would
allow an easy way for a salesperson to customize a presentation for his
accounts. When the salesperson opens up the powerpoint file, he would click
on a combobox with his name, which would delete or hide the 19 other account
team slides. Another idea I have if this is impossible is to have a
salesperson select his name from hthe combobox and then have powerpoint
import from another file the salesperson's account team slide. Also, this
would be done during the editing of the slide, not at the slide show. Is
there any macro that can do this?

Thanks for your help in advance,

steve-o

 

[Bill Foley]

Once again there are probably several ways to skin that cat (sorry Brian),
but a method I use is to create an add-in that has nothing but a toolbar and
a button on the toolbar. The button opens up a UserForm with a set of
option buttons on it (could be your sales people). When you select one of
the option buttons and click "OK", it goes to a network location and opens
up a new presentation based on a template with the same name.

So, for example, you can have different templates with all the customized
info you need/want for each salesperson. Then all they would need to do is
to open PowerPoint (once they all have this add-in loaded), click a button,
then select their template. With it being on a network drive they could
update their template anytime they want, and since it is saved on a common
network location, every time they go to create a new presentation, it is
there.

I have been quite a slacker and haven't gotten this FAQ sample on my web
site yet but I could send you the sample code or a sample zipped file so you
can see how it works. It works quite similar to my Word version at
http://www.pttinc.com/doc_management.html, except the code to open up a new
presentation would be different to reflect the PowerPoint object model.