Hello all.

I create a lot of PPTs for my own business often with a large quantity of
links to documents i.e. pdfs so that I don't have to have all the information
on the slides.  Sometimes, my presentations can contain links to many
different files and folders.

I have developed a VBA based routine to automate the building of the PPTs
via MS Access like this:  the user opens the db, points the a folder dialogue
to the correct directory and then it populates the db before creating a
presentation based around a master slide.  It creates buttons allowing a user
to display the correct file during the slideshow and navigate to different
slides.  I am very happy with this but would like to extend its functionality
with a treeview.

In theory, I would like a treeview control on each slide allowing the user
to navigate backwards, forwards and to jump to any particular file in a
similar way to the Folders pane in Windows Explorer.  I would like the
treeview to be visible on all slides and the expanded nodes to reflect the
current slide and file accessed.  This would eliminate the need to follow a
linear route through the slideslow.

Through research on the web, I know who to work with the TreeView in VBA and
on WinForms but I do not know how to :

a) add the treeview to the pp slide
b) make the treeview appear on every slide so that the user can always see
where in the file structure they are.

I thought that it may be a case of setting up a frame on the master slide
and then binding the treeview to the frame when the slide is activated.

As an attempt to do all this, I downloaded the VBA Controls Assistant add-in
but the treeview cannot be applied to the master slide.  So this has left me
a little stumped.

If anyone has any pointers on the use of a treeview in Powerpoint in this
way, I would be very grateful.  ALternatively, if anyone knows any decent
sources of information or forums on this, I would be happy also.

Many thank in advance

James