Slide names.

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Tony Rizzo

Well, this certainly appears to be the newsgroup for powerpoint. :)

I'm struggling with slide names. I'd like to give each slide a unique name,
so that I might reference the unique slide names and use them to navigate
throughout the presentation during a slide show, using VBA macros.

There is a SlildeID property mentioned in the VBA help. But I have no
idea how to retrieve this property at design time. And retrieving it at
run time is somewhat pointless, since at run time I can't design the
nagivation scheme. This is why I'd like to use unique names for the
slides. The slide names would not change even if the slides were
shuffled; they would be defined at design time; and they could be
used by the navigation macros.

Along similar lines, does anybody know how to assign names to
objects at design time?

Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

--
Cordially,

Tony Rizzo
www.pdinstitute.com
(908) 230-5348
(e-mail address removed)
 
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E. Cox

I can get it to rename shapes but how do I get it to rename a slide. I'm
not the original poster but his was one of my questions.

Thanks.

E. Cox
 
E

E. Cox

Thanks. Sorry to be so much trouble. I've never used the Slide Sorter
view. Now I just hope I can use the names in VBA.

E. Cox
 
S

Steve Rindsberg

Thanks. Sorry to be so much trouble. I've never used the Slide Sorter
view. Now I just hope I can use the names in VBA.
Click to expand...

If not, ask. It should generally be pretty simple.

With ActivePresentation.Slides("MyName")
' do stuff
End With
 
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E. Cox

I got the Rename add-in to work and was able to get my Macro to perform
an operation based on the name.

It wasn't working for me at first but I figured out why. I thought I'd
make a small recommendation. You might want to make it set the name when
it loses focus. In other words I was clicking on a slide, typing a name,
then clicking on the next slide. But it wasn't working because I wasn't
pressing "Enter" after the name.

Thank you for your help.

E. Cox
 
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E. Cox

@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl:

Thank you for the help. I'm glad I (sort of) asked. I didn't know that
I could use the name like that. I had tried a cruder method (and it
worked). I was looping through each of the slides and checking the name.
Of course, your way works much better.

I appreciate the help. This newsgroup is GREAT about helping. Now if
they could just teach me to be more artistic. I find that I am doing
this like I do just about everything else... technical, wiz-bang,
feature-rich... and ugly.

Just so everyone knows. I am wanting to make a presentation that
calculates things on the fly, allows me to show actual numbers on the
fly, creates shapes (and full diagrams) depending on what interests the
customer expresses during the presentation and can take different paths
as needed. Fully dynamic.

I didn't want to use any of the design templates... because that would
look like I just grabbed a template... can't have that. I wanted to
stick with colors used by "my" company and the company that I will be
presenting to so that means I have to come up with my own graphics. I've
got "my" company's logo but that's about it.

I'm not sure that there's really a question in there. Unless, unless
someone can give me tips on how to be artistic. :)

Thanks,

E. Cox
 
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Steve Rindsberg

I appreciate the help. This newsgroup is GREAT about helping. Now if
they could just teach me to be more artistic. I find that I am doing
this like I do just about everything else... technical, wiz-bang,
feature-rich... and ugly.
Click to expand...

You're most welcome, and this is where the lesson on two-way sharing comes
in.
If you ever work out how to become more artistic, I want to be the first on
your mailing list, ok?
I suspect it involves brain transplants, though.
 
S

Shyam

Tony,
Check for version number in the readme file. It should say 1.1 if you can
find it, you are still using the older version.
I've tested it on 2K/2K2/2k3 beta.
--
Regards
Shyam Pillai

Handout Wizard
http://www.mvps.org/skp/how/
 
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E. Cox

Yeah, I think it's that right-brain vs. left-brain thing. So I guess we
would both just need to get another half a brain and keep our logical
half.

E. Cox
 
S

Steve Rindsberg

Yeah, I think it's that right-brain vs. left-brain thing. So I guess we
would both just need to get another half a brain and keep our logical
half.
Click to expand...

I fear that they're mutually exclusive. One eats the other. ;-)
 
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E. Cox

Bummer. I'm sure I'm the *ONLY* one that wouldn't hit "Enter" so I guess
the Problem is solved. :)

E. Cox
 
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E. Cox

@news.netcarrier.net:

It worked for me. It sticks that is. I hate to ask this... but are you
sure you have added the new one in the Tools->Add-ins->Add New???

E. Cox
 

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