Searching for slides with notes

[Scott Meyers]

I have a presentation with nearly 600 slides (it's for a week-long training
course), only a few of which have notes associated with them. Is there some way
to identify only those slides that have notes, e.g., to search for slides with
notes or to print out only slides with notes?

I'm using Office 2002 on Windows 2000.

Thanks,

Scott

 

[Bill Dilworth]

How do you want to flag these noted slides?

1) A red border around the slides with notes
2) A red border around the notes pane?
3) A list?
4) Hiding the non-note slides?
5) Deleting the non-note slides?


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[Scott Meyers]

How do you want to flag these noted slides?

1) A red border around the slides with notes
2) A red border around the notes pane?
3) A list?
4) Hiding the non-note slides?
5) Deleting the non-note slides?

What I really want to do is search for slides with notes, i.e., find the next
slide with notes. In general, an instructor will get a copy of the PPT file
(~600 slides) and will want to review the slides with notes more carefully than
the others. So the instructor needs a way to easily move from one slide with
notes to the next. (Temporarily hiding the non-notes slides is perhaps a way to
approach this, but it's important that somebody viewing a slide with notes have
an easy way to see the context for that slide, which in almost all cases will be
slides without notes.)

Thanks,

Scott

 

[Bill Dilworth]

So... if all you want to do is jump to the next slide that has any text in
the note section

This macro will work to do that.

======Begin Code======
Sub SkipTheRests()

Windows(1).View.GotoSlide Windows(1) _
.Selection.SlideRange(1) _
.SlideIndex + 1
If Len(ActivePresentation.Slides _
(Windows(1).Selection.SlideRange(1) _
.SlideIndex).NotesPage.Shapes(2) _
.TextFrame.TextRange.Text) < 1 _
And Windows(1).Selection _
.SlideRange(1).SlideIndex < _
ActivePresentation.Slides.Count _
Then Call SkipTheRests

End Sub
======End Code======

How do I use VBA code in PowerPoint?
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00033.htm



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[Scott Meyers]

Works like a charm, thanks very much. Thanks also for the link at the bottom
showing me how to add the macro to my presentation, though there were some
resulting security issues it would have been nice to see addressed (the macro
was automatically disabled when I saved and then reopened the presentation).

Again, many thanks.

Scott

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Works like a charm, thanks very much. Thanks also for the link at the bottom
showing me how to add the macro to my presentation, though there were some
resulting security issues it would have been nice to see addressed (the macro
was automatically disabled when I saved and then reopened the presentation).

Scott, thanks for mentioning this. I've added a step to the "how-to" list
reminding users to set security to Medium right off. The new version's up on
the FAQ.