powerpoint form

[Guest]

Greetings everyone. This is my first time here. I rarely work with
powerpoint but have been asked to take 2 slides and make a useable form of
each. But, the form needs to be available during Normal view, not during the
presentation. Is this possible? If so, how? Deos anyone know if there are
there any example(s) available to look at?
Thanks to anyone responding to this.
*** John

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Greetings everyone. This is my first time here. I rarely work with
powerpoint but have been asked to take 2 slides and make a useable form of
each. But, the form needs to be available during Normal view, not during the
presentation. Is this possible? If so, how? Deos anyone know if there are
there any example(s) available to look at?
Thanks to anyone responding to this.

"Form" might mean different things to different people. If you would, explain a
bit more about what you want to do.

Some kind of "fill-in-the-blanks" form?

 

[Guest]

Steve, you are correct on the fill in the blank. Items such as account name,
manager name, dates, and so on. There are 14 items in all. Not sure why
they want this in a powerpoint but mine is not to reason why. The
information will not be retained. The information would be completed during
the normal view and not during the presentation.
*** John

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Steve, you are correct on the fill in the blank. Items such as account name,
manager name, dates, and so on. There are 14 items in all. Not sure why
they want this in a powerpoint but mine is not to reason why. The
information will not be retained. The information would be completed during
the normal view and not during the presentation.

OK, clear enough. Thanks.

You won't be able to do this with PPT controls on a slide since they only work in
Show view.

But if you had an add-in with a menu item or toolbar, it could invoke a VBA user form
that collects the information and then ... um ... what DO they want to do with it

 

[Brian Reilly, MVP]

John, To add to wise man Steve's comments,
You could have the 14 text boxes on a PPT slide, then invoke the VBA
userform for fill in with a variety of control types, text boxes,
option button, check boxes, list boxes etc. which would all be
assigned to the OK button which would fill them in on the PPT page and
close the form.

You could even populate the userform fields again from the values in
the textboxes on the page for editing.

Brian Reilly, MVP