Macro won't run in slideshow view

[GL109]

I am in the process of making a game for a meeting resembling Wheel of
Fortune. I was planning on creating a macro for each of the letters of the
alphabet so that when clicking on the letter it automatically poplulates the
letter in the puzzle. The macro will run if i run it from clicking on
tools/macro/macro and clicking run, but they won't work when i add them in
the action setting for the slide show. I've tried both action buttons and
just text and adding the new action setting so that on click it runs the
macro, but they won't run. It underlines the text so i know it recognizes
that there is an action associated with it, but when i click on it from the
slideshow, it won't run. What am i doing wrong!?!?!

I've also tried changing my security to low, but that doesn't make it work
either.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Macros that work in Slide Show View tend to be much different from
macros that work in Normal/Edit view. For example, any code that
involves selecting (the kind of ugly code you get from the macro
recorder) will fail in Slide Show View. We'd have to see some code in
order to have any more of an idea of what is going wrong.
--David

 

[GL109]

Here's the VB code for the macro, does that help?

Sub A()
'
' Macro recorded 5/7/2008 by gmota
'

ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.Shapes("Text Box 12").Select
ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.Shapes("Text Box 12").Select

ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.TextFrame.TextRange.Characters(Start:=1,
Length:=0).Select
With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange
.Text = "A"
With .Font
.Name = "Arial Narrow"
.Size = 36
.Bold = msoTrue
.Italic = msoFalse
.Underline = msoFalse
.Shadow = msoFalse
.Emboss = msoFalse
.BaselineOffset = 0
.AutoRotateNumbers = msoFalse
.Color.SchemeColor = ppForeground
End With
End With
End Sub
Sub B()
'
' Macro recorded 5/7/2008 by gmota
'

ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.Shapes("Text Box 19").Select
ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.Shapes("Text Box 19").Select

ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.TextFrame.TextRange.Characters(Start:=1,
Length:=0).Select
With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange
.Text = "B"
With .Font
.Name = "Arial Narrow"
.Size = 36
.Bold = msoTrue
.Italic = msoFalse
.Underline = msoFalse
.Shadow = msoFalse
.Emboss = msoFalse
.BaselineOffset = 0
.AutoRotateNumbers = msoFalse
.Color.SchemeColor = ppForeground
End With
End With
ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.Shapes("Text Box 13").Select
ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.Shapes("Text Box 13").Select

ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.TextFrame.TextRange.Characters(Start:=1,
Length:=0).Select
With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange
.Text = "B"
With .Font
.Name = "Arial Narrow"
.Size = 36
.Bold = msoTrue
.Italic = msoFalse
.Underline = msoFalse
.Shadow = msoFalse
.Emboss = msoFalse
.BaselineOffset = 0
.AutoRotateNumbers = msoFalse
.Color.SchemeColor = ppForeground
End With
End With
End Sub
Sub C()
'
' Macro recorded 5/7/2008 by gmota
'

ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.Shapes("Text Box 17").Select
ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.Shapes("Text Box 17").Select

ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.TextFrame.TextRange.Characters(Start:=1,
Length:=0).Select
With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange
.Text = "C"
With .Font
.Name = "Arial Narrow"
.Size = 36
.Bold = msoTrue
.Italic = msoFalse
.Underline = msoFalse
.Shadow = msoFalse
.Emboss = msoFalse
.BaselineOffset = 0
.AutoRotateNumbers = msoFalse
.Color.SchemeColor = ppForeground
End With
End With
ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.Shapes("Text Box 28").Select
ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.Shapes("Text Box 28").Select

ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.TextFrame.TextRange.Characters(Start:=1,
Length:=0).Select
With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange
.Text = "C"
With .Font
.Name = "Arial Narrow"
.Size = 36
.Bold = msoTrue
.Italic = msoFalse
.Underline = msoFalse
.Shadow = msoFalse
.Emboss = msoFalse
.BaselineOffset = 0
.AutoRotateNumbers = msoFalse
.Color.SchemeColor = ppForeground
End With
End With
End Sub

 

[John Wilson]

Yep - that's exactly the ugly code David refers to!

It will not run in slide show mode. if you explain EXACTLY what you want to
happen I'm sure someone will point you in the right direction.
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[GL109]

I want to have the alphabet on the bottom and be able to click on the letter
and have all the letters pop up at the same time. For example, i recorded the
macro for "b" by clicking record macro, filling in the b's, and then stopping
the macro. Then, tried to save that macro to a button that has the letter B

 

[John Wilson]

Code that relys on selection (like yours) will never work except in edit
mpde. Shapes cannot be selected in show mode.

What you want does not need code - you can simply use triggered animations
See
http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/powerpoint_hints_and_tips_tutorials.html#triggers

for help on this

If you must use code one way is to have shapes with alternate text (right
click > format shape) - set the alt text to the letter needed. Now also have
shapes with the letters of the alphabet. Make all these trigger this macro


Sub fillin(oshp As Shape)
Dim strletter As String
Dim fillshape As Shape
strletter = oshp.TextFrame.TextRange
For Each fillshape In ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.Slide.Shapes
If fillshape.AlternativeText = strletter _
Then fillshape.TextFrame.TextRange = strletter
Next
End Sub

To clear the letters use this macro

Sub clearall()
Dim fillshape As Shape
For Each fillshape In ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.Slide.Shapes
If fillshape.AlternativeText <> "" Then fillshape.TextFrame.TextRange = ""
Next
End Sub

Hope that helps

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