Font Change Macro doesn't work in slideshow

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Jeremy's Dad

I recorded a small macro to change the font size and colour of the first
leter of each word and runs a small sound file. The macro was recorded and
works just fine as long as I'm editing the page.

I added a small button to the page and pointed the action to the macro.
When I run the slide show and hit the button, the sound file does play,
however the text does not change. I am assuming this has something to do
with PP being in slide show mode.

I would appreciate any pointers.

Tanks

Gary
 
Gary,

Unfortunately, recorded macros don't work well in Slide Show view. Your
macro probably selects some text and changes the selected text. Since
you can't select text in Slide Show view, the macro fails. You'll need
to fiddle with the VBA that the macro created. My book (Powerful
Powerpoint for Educators) has several examples of adjusting text in just
the way you intend. If you have no VBA experience, you might try to post
the macro's code and someone here can probably fix it to do what you
want. Send me email with the code (remove the NOSPAM in my address), and
I'll try to get to it.

If you don't know how to get to the code, just hit ALT-F11 to go to the
VBA editor, and you can copy and paste the code right into your email.

--David
 
David,

Thanks for your reply. I have played about rather extensively with VBA in
Word but not yet with PowerPoint. Will look up the Object Model on the web
and probably just get the macro to write the text directly. I had hoped I
just missed something simple.

I'll even go looking for your book here in Canada as I will be doing a lot
of teaching and using PPT as a tool.

Thanks for your reposne!

Gary
 
Just look up my name (David Marcovitz) at amazon.ca to find the book in Canada. Interestingly, the Canadian site lists the book as being available while the American and UK Amazon sites list it as "not yet released.
--Davi

David M. Marcovit
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technolog
Loyola College in Marylan
Author of _Powerful Powerpoint for Educators
 
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