Current Slide Index while in slide show

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Christoph Quix

Hi!

I want to insert a new blank slide after the current slide
while I am in a slide show, i.e. exactly the same that ctrl-m does
while in editing mode. Background is that I am using
a Tablet PC for the presentation, and I might want to write
some notes on additional blank slides.

I have figured out, that there is no direct operation
that supports this, and that I have to use an interactive
button linked to a macro to do the job.

I know that there is the Slides.Add method, but this
expects a slide index as first parameter. So I need to
find the index of the current slide, add 1, and use this
as a parameter for this method.

So far, all my tries failed. I had a macro which works fine
in normal editing mode, but it fails in the slide show mode.
The objects seems to be different.

Has anybody an idea?

Christoph
 
To insert slides you have to be in the Edit mode, not the Slideshow mode.

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Hi!

I want to insert a new blank slide after the current slide
while I am in a slide show, i.e. exactly the same that ctrl-m does
while in editing mode. Background is that I am using
a Tablet PC for the presentation, and I might want to write
some notes on additional blank slides.

I have figured out, that there is no direct operation
that supports this, and that I have to use an interactive
button linked to a macro to do the job.

I know that there is the Slides.Add method, but this
expects a slide index as first parameter. So I need to
find the index of the current slide, add 1, and use this
as a parameter for this method.

So far, all my tries failed. I had a macro which works fine
in normal editing mode, but it fails in the slide show mode.
The objects seems to be different.

Has anybody an idea?

Christoph
 
ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.Slide.SlideIndex

will get you the current slide's SlideIndex. I think that is just what
you want.

--David

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David M. Marcovitz
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Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
 
I think, that was one of the things I tried.
Anyway, my current solution uses SlideShowWindows(1).View.CurrentShowPosition
and it works.

SlideShowWindows(1).View.GotoSlide Index:=ActivePresentation.Slides.Add(Index:=(SlideShowWindows(1).View.CurrentShowPosition + 1), Layout:=ppLayoutBlank).SlideIndex
SlideShowWindows(1).View.PointerType = ppSlideShowPointerPen

Thanks,
Christoph
 
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