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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / October 2007Macro Buttons in Presentations
I'm running PPT 2003, and was wondering if it's possible to create macro buttons in presentations. For instance, I'd like a button that, when clicked, runs the commands "left cursor" and "spacebar". Greatly appreciate the help! :-) Do you mean buttons that move to previous / next slide or something else?  SignatureAmazing PPT Hints, Tips and Tutorials- http://www.PPTAlchemy.co.uk http://www.technologytrish.co.uk email john AT technologytrish.co.uk > I'm running PPT 2003, and was wondering if it's possible to create macro > buttons in presentations. For instance, I'd like a button that, when clicked, > runs the commands "left cursor" and "spacebar". Greatly appreciate the help! > :-) Hi John: I'm looking to create a custom button that contains a custom macro instead of the usual ones. > Do you mean buttons that move to previous / next slide or something else? > > > I'm running PPT 2003, and was wondering if it's possible to create macro > > buttons in presentations. For instance, I'd like a button that, when clicked, > > runs the commands "left cursor" and "spacebar". Greatly appreciate the help! > > :-) But what would you like the macro to do? SignatureAmazing PPT Hints, Tips and Tutorials- http://www.PPTAlchemy.co.uk http://www.technologytrish.co.uk email john AT technologytrish.co.uk > Hi John: > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > > runs the commands "left cursor" and "spacebar". Greatly appreciate the help! > > > :-) I'd like the macro to run "backspace" followed by "spacebar" as a button inserted into the PPT presentation. > But what would you like the macro to do? > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > > > runs the commands "left cursor" and "spacebar". Greatly appreciate the help! > > > > :-) Macros on buttons will only run in a slide show. In a slideshow left cursor followed by space would do nothing! If you want the macro to run in edit mode you would need to write an add in with command buttons. SignatureAmazing PPT Hints, Tips and Tutorials- http://www.PPTAlchemy.co.uk http://www.technologytrish.co.uk email john AT technologytrish.co.uk > I'd like the macro to run "backspace" followed by "spacebar" as a button > inserted into the PPT presentation. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > > > > runs the commands "left cursor" and "spacebar". Greatly appreciate the help! > > > > > :-) Hi Tiki, What John is trying to say is...if you are in slideshow mode and you press <Backspace> followed by <Space> you will go back one slide, then forward one slide. There are other ways to do this with action settings, so is this what you want to achieve? Thus when John asked what you're trying to do he meant in the wider sense, and not just what keys are you trying to emulate, so repeating the initial question didn't really supply any additional information. Are you, in fact, wanting to go back one slide and forward again? Cheers, Geoff > I'm running PPT 2003, and was wondering if it's possible to create macro > buttons in presentations. For instance, I'd like a button that, when > clicked, > runs the commands "left cursor" and "spacebar". Greatly appreciate the > help! > :-) And if you simulate pressing those keys with a macro it will all happen in microseconds so you see only a flash! SignatureAmazing PPT Hints, Tips and Tutorials- http://www.PPTAlchemy.co.uk http://www.technologytrish.co.uk email john AT technologytrish.co.uk > Hi Tiki, > What John is trying to say is...if you are in slideshow mode and you press [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > help! > > :-) I understand that pressing the backspace key will go backward one slide, and pressing the spacebar will advance one slide. However, when you add animation to a particular slide, pressing these two keys will "rewind" the slide to the beginning and "replay" it. So ultimately, I want a button in the presentation that says "REPLAY". When users see the slide in presentation mode, they watch the animation. And by clicking "REPLAY", the user can "rewind" the slide to the beginning and "replay" it. And if it happens in microseconds, so much the better. > And if you simulate pressing those keys with a macro it will all happen in > microseconds so you see only a flash! [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > > help! > > > :-) Got there in the end! Try this: Sub resetme() Dim i As Integer i = ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.CurrentShowPosition ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.GotoSlide i, msoTrue End Sub Note this will rewing to the start of the slide pressing left cursor won't. SignatureAmazing PPT Hints, Tips and Tutorials- http://www.PPTAlchemy.co.uk http://www.technologytrish.co.uk email john AT technologytrish.co.uk > I understand that pressing the backspace key will go backward one slide, and > pressing the spacebar will advance one slide. However, when you add animation [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > > > help! > > > > :-) > I understand that pressing the backspace key will go backward one slide, and > pressing the spacebar will advance one slide. However, when you add animation [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > clicking "REPLAY", the user can "rewind" the slide to the beginning and > "replay" it. You could, I think, put a duplicate of the current slide immediately prior to it, remove all animations and all shapes that will animate on. In other words, create a new slide that looks just like the *real* slide when it first appears. Then set it to transition automatically to the next slide after 0 delay. On your *real* slide, put a back button or a link to the previous slide. When the user clicks the link, it'll back up one slide, advance immediately to the next slide (because of the immediate transition) and since it's transitioning to a slide that looks exactly like it, there'll be no visible transition at all. And the animations will reset. And it'll work w/o macros, so it works in the viewer and in PPT installations where macros are locked out. > And if it happens in microseconds, so much the better. > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > > > help! > > > > :-) ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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