Go to a Slide from Combo

[Guest]

I've searched numerous posts and have gone through all the related posts but
couldn't succeed achieving my targets..

Can anybody provide an example ppt file showing navigation of slides from a
combobox....??

 

[Guest]

Hi,

Best VBA references:
http://www.mvps.org/skp/vba.htm
http://officeone.mvps.org/vba.html
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/#PROGRAMMING_POWERPOINT

But you can also achieve a "drop-down menu" without using VBA:
http://www.powerpointmagician.com/articles/dynamicppt.htm

Glenna

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I've searched numerous posts and have gone through all the related posts but
couldn't succeed achieving my targets..

Can anybody provide an example ppt file showing navigation of slides from a
combobox....??

This shows you how to populate a combo; you'd need to work out, once the user's
selected something from it, how you want to decide what slide to go to. For
example, will the slide number be in the combo?

Manipulating Listbox and Combobox controls on slides
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00439.htm

 

[Brian Reilly, MS MVP]

I posted some code a while back which did this. You can find the
thread which also has Chirag's solution in the thread by googleing on
"Brian Reilly" combobox PowerPoint

Brian Reilly, PowerPoint MVP

 

[Guest]

I've gone through the groups and found the code as well. My problem is its
not working as I wish to. I need the slide titles to apperar in the combo and
after clicking move on to the specified slide. I can't use "drop down menu"
as there are more than 150 slides in a PPT and I've to work upon more than 8
such PPTs. I need a solution that can be fitted in as generic ones to all.

I need to host these files on a public domain. Can these files be exported
in exe format or PPS projectors so that users can see the combo in their
presentations??? I wish they should not get the enable macros kinda command
for viewing my PPTs... Will this be possible???

 

[Guest]

Whatever I was trying to achieve is done almost 99%. The only difficulty I
predict to face is exporting my PPTs. I' ve a total of 150 slides in a PPT
and there are about 8 such PPTs. I want them to be exported in a Projector
file "PPS". How do I enable user to run through my presentation without going
to the source code window and compile the code manually... I'm a newbieeeee
to VBA.. Kinda help me out

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

As long as the users are running full versions of PowerPoint (not the
Viewer; VBA doesn't work in the Viewer), you should be OK to just save
the file as a PowerPoint Show (.pps). It is really the identical file as
the .ppt; the "s" just tells PowerPoint to open it as a show. It can
still be opened in Normal View by opening PowerPoint first and opening
the file. If you need to lock people out of the VBA, you can password
protect the VBA under Tools > VBAProject Properties > Protection.
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Whatever I was trying to achieve is done almost 99%. The only difficulty I
predict to face is exporting my PPTs. I' ve a total of 150 slides in a PPT
and there are about 8 such PPTs. I want them to be exported in a Projector
file "PPS".

To save a little confusion, a PPS is the same as a PPT - it just has the file
extension changed to PPS so Windows launches PPT with slightly different command
line parameters when you doubleclick the file (ie, it starts a PPS in Slideshow
view instead of Normal view)

How do I enable user to run through my presentation without going
to the source code window and compile the code manually... I'm a newbieeeee
to VBA.. Kinda help me out

Try opening your file (PPT or PPS, doesn't matter) and putting PowerPoint in
Slideshow view. Does it work as expected? If so, it should work the same way
for other users (assuming their security settings permit it).

They won't have to mess with the code. In fact, you may want to password protect
the code so they *can't* mess with it.