New PowerPoint indexer

[Joseph M. Newcomer]

I've put up a new version of my PowerPoint indexer. This is a significant improvement in
that it no longer uses a VBA script but reads the PowerPoint presentation directly. It
also implements a new indexing feature: if you put certain keywords in the speaker notes
field, they will be used as index terms. In addition, you can now add these keywords
directly from the Indexer program with a few mouse clicks. There is new documentation on
my MVP Tips site for this:

http://www.flounder.com/powerpoint_indexer.htm

In addition, there is a whole new section in the "Inside the PowerPoint Indexer" that
explains how I interfaced an MFC application to the PowerPoint automation interface and
shows how to parse certain aspects of the PowerPoint file, and how to modify the
PowerPoint file.

http://www.flounder.com/inside_the_powerpoint_indexer.htm

As usual, this comes with the complete source code so you can study it.
joe
Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
email: (e-mail address removed)
Web: http://www.flounder.com
MVP Tips: http://www.flounder.com/mvp_tips.htm

 

[Brian Reilly, MVP]

Joseph,

I've met you quite a few times at the MVP Summits in Seattle/Redmond.
You were usually very quiet but always very enlightening with your
perspective.

So, this new update is either a very scary Halloween idea or you are
now just a very scary person for your content.

This stuff looks great, wish I understood more about the end benefits
of it. Care to share more on that, but not in C++ (g). Sorry you don't
like VBA, we all know it is going to go away but hope we all don't
have to learn C++. Heck, I would be lucky if my programming grade
average was even D+.

Nice to hear from you. See you in Seattle/Redmond early next year. I
don't really think it is Halloween scary any more. But it is scary.

Brian Reilly, MVP