Storing Data Values in Powerpoint File

[Guest]

Does anyone know how to store data values in a Powerpoint file that will
remain part of the saved file?

Analogous examples in other Office applications of what I'm referring to
here are:
1. Excel - Cells
2. Word - DocVariables
3. Access - Tables

Thanks,
VBA Dabbler

 

[Shyam Pillai]

Tags is what you need. You can assign tags to presentation, slide or shapes.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the direction, that will work fine.

Do you have a recommendation for embedding tag values into a slide?

 

[Shyam Pillai]

Not sure what you mean? Could you elaborate?

 

[Guest]

Sure. I want to "display" the value of a tag on a slide, e.g., a project
name in the header of all slides within a presentation file. What do I use
to do this? In Word you would insert a "field" naming a docvariable to
display.

Regards,
VBADabbler

 

[Shyam Pillai]

Tags in PowerPoint are used to store values, but you cannot access them in
the UI. You can only access them programmatically. I may have have
mis-interpreted your requirement to store values.


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Regards.
Shyam Pillai

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[Steve Rindsberg]

Sure. I want to "display" the value of a tag on a slide, e.g., a project

name in the header of all slides within a presentation file. What do I use
to do this? In Word you would insert a "field" naming a docvariable to
display.

Unfortunately, PPT has no equivalent to Word's fields, other than a slide
number and a date field.

You'd have to write code to set the header to the text you've extracted from
whatever tag you want to use. Note that you probably can put the text on a
Slide Master (or more than one) rather than having to put it on each slide
(where users might meddle with it).

The trickier bit would be working out how you're going to force the code to
run. Can the user click a button to trigger the heading update, or do you need
it to happen automatically?