Any way to go to given slide when opening .ppt ?

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Pivert

Hi,

is there a way to automatically open a ppt file on the last slide edited ?

Thanks !
Phil
 
Yes, several.

How are you opening the presentation?
double click
from hyperlink
from VB program

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Hi Phil,

I've never been able to figure out a way to do that, but you can change the
mode that PP starts up in to be the slide sorter mode (which makes it easier
to find a slide). Alternatively you can run the show (F5), type the slide
number, and press Enter then press Esc (to stop the show) and you'll be on
the correct slide. It sounds like a lot, but it goes pretty quickly to get
to a particular slide.

Of course the slide numbers all change when you insert new ones. :)

Tom
 
You would need to add a fairly complex vba routine to ...

1) notice slide edits
2) store the edited slide number in perhaps a slide tag
3) notice that the presentation was opened
4) jump to the stored slide number

Doable, but not simply.

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Hello Phil,

PowerPoint does not have the ability to remember the last slide edited so
that the next time you open a presentation for editing it would open you to
the view and location you were in when you last saved the presentation..

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PowerPoint should provide this option (without having to resort to VBA or
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How funny. It used to do that.

Well, no, not exactly. It used to open on the slide and view you were in
when you last saved. When did that change? ISTR that both PPT 97 and
2000 acted this way.
 
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