Macros - Write Message in Status Bar

[Cathy D.]

I'm creating a PowerPoint macro that does a lot of searching an
replacing for clean-up purposes. When the macro is completed, I woul
like to have a message display in the status bar. In Word, the VB
code would read Application.StatusBar = "message". I tried this sam
code in PowerPoint and it doesn't work.

Does anyone know if this can be done in PowerPoint and, if it can, ho
exactly I would need to write the code?

Thanks alot for your time and help!

 

[Brian Reilly, MS MVP]

Cathy,
One of the others will correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think PPT
has a StatusBar. I've used a msgbox at the completion of a long
routine, or you could use a textbox and change the value of the text
box during execution and then delete the textbox after completion.

Brian Reilly, PowerPoint MVP

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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Hello Cathy,

Although PowerPoint has a status bar, there is no way to do what you are
trying to do.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that it's important that
PowerPoint provide this kind of functionality (without having to resort to
VBA or add-ins), don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS,
please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

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[Steve Rindsberg]

One of the others will correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think PPT

has a StatusBar.

For *once* you're right, Brian.

The part about "somebody will correct me if I'm wrong" that is.

'Cause you are.

PPT's status bar is the thing that shows "Slide 1 of 1" and the current design
and all that schtuff. You might have it turned off - Tools, Options, View,
Status Bar checked/unchecked.

Want to go for Two? (as in wrongs, making a right? Excellerithmetic, isn't
that what that's called?)

used a msgbox at the completion of a long
routine, or you could use a textbox and change the value of the text
box during execution and then delete the textbox after completion.

Or in PPT 2000 and up, you can use a user form (show it with Modal = False) and
update the userform as you go.