Running a Powerpoint Macro from Excel

[smonczka]

I am atempting to exacute a PPT macro from inside excel. Does anyone
have a sugestion on how to do this. I am running office 2003 on an XP
machine. All files I am working with are in the same directory.

I have found the following code that is suposed to work but dosn't...

The first one errors out because it can not seem to open the PPT file.

Sub PPTTest()
Dim PPT as Object

Set PPT = CreateObject("PowerPoint.Application")

PPT.Presentations.Open "C:\My Documents\PPTAutomation.ppt", ,
,False

' Note that the file name and the module
' name are required to path the macro correctly.
PPT.Run "PPTAutomation.ppt!Module1.AutomationTest"

End Sub


The second example is used by creating an add-in in PPT and then
calling the add in from Excel but is unable to reference the object.

Sub mymacro()
Dim PPApp As PowerPoint.Application
Dim PPPres As PowerPoint.Presentation

Set PPApp = CreateObject("Powerpoint.Application")

PPApp.AddIns.Application.Run ("GetReturnValue")


End Sub

I'm open to any sugestions you might have. Thanks
Steve

 

[Tushar Mehta]

Multiposted in .powerpoint.

--
Regards,

Tushar Mehta
www.tushar-mehta.com
Excel, PowerPoint, and VBA add-ins, tutorials
Custom MS Office productivity solutions

 

[smonczka]

Tushar,

This was multi posted because after posting the original message here I
realized it was probably a Powerpoint question not an excel question.
And as I have not received any replies to this post here it would
appear that I was incorrect in posting the question to this news group.

I am sorry if I did anything inappropriate by doing so.

Thank you,
Steve

 

[Tushar Mehta]

Hi Steve,

What I was doing was alerting people that they may want to check the
other group for possible duplicate responses.

In case you would like to know and were unaware of the issues...

Multiposting means posting the same request independently to two or
more groups. Effectively, those who respond in one group are unaware
of the discussion in the other group(s).

Cross-posting, on the other hand, is posting the same message to both
groups. Typically, responses to such a post are automatically posted
to both groups. That way all those helping solve a problem are aware
of what all the others have contributed.

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Regards,

Tushar Mehta
www.tushar-mehta.com
Excel, PowerPoint, and VBA add-ins, tutorials
Custom MS Office productivity solutions

 

[smonczka]

Tushar, thank you very much for the explination. It makes perfect
sence and it is nice to have such helpfull people in the groups to
explain this stuff to the noobies like myself.

Steve