Passing documents with macros and toolbar icons for the macros

[SteveK]

I have come up with a few macros that I created by using the Macro Recorder.
For the simple macros that automate a few pulldowns and selections it seems
they are only worth while to use if you make them accessable as buttons on
the toolbar. So I have done that.

I recently went to someone else's computer and opened my document with those
macros. The document is on the network. I found that the buttons on the
toolbar were not there. I saw that the macros were inside the document
because I could get to them through Tools > Macro > Macros. But the buttons
I had created at my computer were not on the other guy's toolbar. And when
I then customized the toolbar by dragging the macros up to the tool bar I
found that the other guy's computer didn't have the custom icons that I had
created for each of the macros. They were blank buttons.

My goal is to create a few useful macros that 1) create and format a box of
text and 2) place arrows of defined lineweight and color, for other people
to use when they generate a particular type of powerpoint document. So I
would like them to be able to start a new PP document and see the available
macros as selectable buttons on the toolbar.

Steve Krause

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

My goal is to create a few useful macros that 1) create and format a box of

text and 2) place arrows of defined lineweight and color, for other people
to use when they generate a particular type of powerpoint document. So I
would like them to be able to start a new PP document and see the available
macros as selectable buttons on the toolbar.

If you want to distribute your own macros to other people, you pretty much need
to create an add-in that includes your macro code plus add'l code as needed to
create toolbars, buttons, menu items and so on.

Start here:

Create an ADD-IN with TOOLBARS that run macros
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00031.htm

Also read the next couple pages after that and be sure to see the Add-in FAQ on
http://skp.mvps.org