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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / April 2008changes shape.name in powerpoint does not work
Hi, I am afcing a strange problem: In a certain presentation I am not able to change the names of some shape, like textboxes. This problem exists then for alle shapes on a slide. On other slides it work perfectly, again for all shapes. To cahnge the name I select the shape an run a makro: ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange(1).Name="test23" If I then read the name by ?ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange(1).Name the correct name is shown. But after saving, closing and opening again, the shape has its original name again... Ideas?? Thanks, Christian > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > the correct name is shown. But after saving, closing and opening again, the > shape has its original name again... Check to see if there's already an existing shape with the same name. That would cause problems.  Signature-- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ > Check to see if there's already an existing shape with the same name. > That > would cause problems. No, the name is unique. If an existing name is used, you get an error message... Hansen, For textbox I can just rename name and save it and it stays there after close and open. Which version ppt you using? does this happens to all the textboxes or just some shapes? does this happens all the time? Just checking, did you saved the presentation after running the macro? > > Check to see if there's already an existing shape with the same name. > > That > > would cause problems. > > No, the name is unique. If an existing name is used, you get an error > message... > For textbox I can just rename name and save it and it stays there after > close and open. That was what I expected ;-) >Which version ppt you using? Powerpoint 2003 SP3 >does this happens to all the textboxes or just some shapes? all textboxes and shapes on certain slides. on other slides it works > does this happens all the time? yes > Just checking, did you saved the presentation after running the macro? yes > > For textbox I can just rename name and save it and it stays there after > > close and open. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > all textboxes and shapes on certain slides. on other slides it works Thanks for mentioning this again. You may have a corrupted presentation. Try "round-tripping" it to HTML and back, then re-run your macro. HTML "Round-tripping" to repair corruption http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00526.htm Signature-- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ > > Check to see if there's already an existing shape with the same name. > > That > > would cause problems. > > No, the name is unique. If an existing name is used, you get an error > message... You're using PPT 2003 or earlier then? In 2007 you can give several shapes the same name. That's not a feature, by any means. I'm not sure what might be causing this then. Have you checked the file access time/date to ensure that it's really getting written? Signature-- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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