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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / August 2006Name a Power Point slide to reference in code - not slide number
I create presentations from individual slides and I want to be able to reference a slide by name (in code) instead of a slide number is there way to do this. I am trying to create help context (custom pane) specific to a Power Point slide and I will not know the order the slides are in. Example: Another user pulls slides from a collection of prebuilt slides and I want to offer help in the Custom Help Pane for that Slide. If I had an ID I could use, I would be able to pull that help context from a XML file (or whatever format) for that slide and present it to the user. Any suggestions? Example 8.7 on my site has procedures for naming shapes and slides: http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ Click on "Examples by Chapter" and "Chapter 8." --David  SignatureDavid M. Marcovitz Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology Loyola College in Maryland Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ > I create presentations from individual slides and I want to be able to > reference a slide by name (in code) instead of a slide number is there [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Any suggestions? I need to name the template slide when the slide is created, by the user. Then I need to use that name in code to retrieve other files associated with that ID. > Example 8.7 on my site has procedures for naming shapes and slides: > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > > > Any suggestions? Is the user creating a slide via automation or via standard PowerPoint? If it is via automation, you can always set the slide's Name property. If they are using standard PowerPoint, either the user will have to use the macro (probably not a good plan), or you will have to have some kind of an add-in loaded on the user's machine that does some naming automatically. --David SignatureDavid M. Marcovitz Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology Loyola College in Maryland Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ > I need to name the template slide when the slide is created, by the > user. Then I need to use that name in code to retrieve other files [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] >> > >> > Any suggestions? The users create slides that are saved on a server. We have a program (third party) that asks questions and then combines the slides into one presentation based on answers given. Once that presentation is created it is downloaded for customization. Once the user is customizing it I need to be able to know what slide they are on and go pull content files for customizing the Help Pane. > Is the user creating a slide via automation or via standard PowerPoint? > If it is via automation, you can always set the slide's Name property. If [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > >> > > >> > Any suggestions? So it seems to me that the name would take place automatically in the third-party software that combines the slides. Is that a possibility? --David SignatureDavid M. Marcovitz Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology Loyola College in Maryland Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ > The users create slides that are saved on a server. We have a program > (third party) that asks questions and then combines the slides into [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] >> >> > >> >> > Any suggestions? No that would not be, but that wouldnt help me anyway. The content files will have to be created with something I can map the original slide ID back to. If the ID was created on the fly I would not be able to link to the content files. I need the users (the slide creaters) to be able to apply a name to the slide at creation time. I was hoping there was some setting somewhere in Power Point that I can not find that would allow them to do so. > So it seems to me that the name would take place automatically in the > third-party software that combines the slides. Is that a possibility? [quoted text clipped - 43 lines] > >> >> > > >> >> > Any suggestions? There are file properties that the user can manipulate easily, but I think that anything that involves naming a slide has to be done with a macro. As long as you could get all the users to load an add-in, you could put the macro in an add-in and make it relatively easy for the users to do. --David SignatureDavid M. Marcovitz Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology Loyola College in Maryland Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ > No that would not be, but that wouldnt help me anyway. The content > files will have to be created with something I can map the original [quoted text clipped - 52 lines] >> >> >> > >> >> >> > Any suggestions? Would that property be static at that point. Meaning they create the slide and save it. Then when the third party program was to pull the slides the name would still be there for me to reference. There is no continuation of the process meaning all programming state is lost. > There are file properties that the user can manipulate easily, but I > think that anything that involves naming a slide has to be done with a [quoted text clipped - 59 lines] > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> > Any suggestions? Yes, the slide's .Name property should hang around after the programming is done. --David SignatureDavid M. Marcovitz Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology Loyola College in Maryland Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ > Would that property be static at that point. Meaning they create the > slide and save it. Then when the third party program was to pull the [quoted text clipped - 64 lines] >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> > Any suggestions? Interesting. Wonder why MS does not have that as a property for the slide that the user can set without having to use a macro. Do you know if that setting may be in 2007? > Yes, the slide's .Name property should hang around after the programming > is done. [quoted text clipped - 68 lines] > >> >> >> >> > > >> >> >> >> > Any suggestions? Sorry, I haven't ventured into 2007 beta testing (no access to a spare machine and no access to that much spare time). Maybe someone else can answer about 2007. --David SignatureDavid M. Marcovitz Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology Loyola College in Maryland Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ > Interesting. Wonder why MS does not have that as a property for the > slide that the user can set without having to use a macro. Do you [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >> programming is done. >> --David |
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