How to add new slide during presentation?

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I'm running a class with Tablet PC - One feature that I'm looking for is how
to add a new blank slide during presentation that I can use it as a
white-board to write down some more explaination for student. I know that
there is a way by using VBA command something like
ActivePresentation.Add.Slide but not sure how to make it as a permanent float
shortcut button ontop of the presentation.
 
Thank you John. But I found that what I wrote on whiteboard doesn't save as
an additional slide (only the ink note on my slide)

I dont know if it is possible to write a VBA code to have a "float" menu
during slideshow similar to the one on the bottom right with some shortcut
buttons on it such as: add blank slide, several pen corlors.

Thanks,
Trung
 
Thank John. That would help at the moment. But in a long run, I still
prefer the feature that I have mentioned.

Thanks,
th
 
That would be very tricky if it could be done at all. If you did create a
new slide and place annotations on it, it would not be saved and when the
show ended there goes your annotations. (I don't believe you can save a
running presentation.)

A better alternative might be to place an object (button?) on the Master
Slide with a hyper link to a *.txt file. That would fire an instance of
whichever app you have it associated with. (Notepad by default?)


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com
 
Well, I have used a 3rd party software come with powerpoint recording
package and they have a feature to add new slide during the show and
save it with ink note. I would think it is possible to do-it-yourself
by writing a VBA code for this feature. I've search this group and saw
someone have attempted to write a code to add items in pop-up menu
during slideshow. I just thought why not adding a item with command add
new slide to it. Hope somebody out there have some thought on this
issue. I would think it is a great feature especially for teaching in a
class.
 
Thank you John. But I found that what I wrote on whiteboard doesn't save as
an additional slide (only the ink note on my slide)

I dont know if it is possible to write a VBA code to have a "float" menu
during slideshow similar to the one on the bottom right with some shortcut
buttons on it such as: add blank slide, several pen corlors.
Click to expand...

Not sure of a floating menu but you could add action buttons, small ones, to the
Slide/Title masters so that they appear on every slide. The buttons can be set to
run macros when you click them.

But I'm not sure that'll help ... in slide show mode, the only thing you can save is
ink notations. You can't add new text or shapes to slides.
 
Actually, it would be fairly easy, with just a little bit of VBA code. In
VBA, write code that adds a blank slide to the end of the presentation and
includes a button that will save the presentation. You would probably also
want to add a "return to last slide viewed" button on the slide so that you
could go back to where you were in your presentation.

Tie this code to a button on the slide master so that it is always available
on every slide (perhaps even a hidden button so that it is not distracting).
Then when you need a slide for whiteboarding, click the hidden button and
draw away with your pen. With the save button on the slide, you would have
the option of saving it or not.

You could use this button as many times as you needed, theoretically adding
an unlimited number of slides to your presentation.

I guess now someone is going to challenge me to do such a feat and make it
available.

Ron
 
Trung

I have what you need. E-mail me off line and I'll forward you a copy of a
one slide presentation that has some VBA code to add a blank slide at the end
of the presentation.

Just copy the VBA code from the "Add a Whiteboard" presentation to the VBA
module in the presentation you want this feature in. Add a button to the
slide (or slide master) in your presentation and tie the "AddAWhiteboard"
macro to this button.

Then when you want a whiteboard, just click the button and it will create a
whiteboard at the end of the presentation and take you to it.

I tried a couple of things to "soup it up" a little, but they didn't work
too well:

I tried a "Save" button on the whiteboard slide, and it saved the
presentation, but not with the ink markings because they are not saved to the
presentation until you exit the slide show and answer the "save ink markings"
question. You can get around this by exiting the slide show, saving the ink
markings, and then saving the presentation.

I tried a print button, and it printed the whiteboard slide, but it did not
have any ink markings on it for the same reason that the save button wasn't
effective (because the ink markings aren't saved until you exit the slide
show. You can get around this by exiting the slide show, saving the ink
markings, and printing the individual whiteboard slide(s).

I also tried a return to previous slide, which worked fine until you put ink
on the slide. When you change from the arrow-to the pen-and then back to the
arrow, the arrow remains in a visible state (instead of automatic) until you
leave the slide. Even right-clicking and changing the arrow to automatic
does not allow "the hand" icon to appear when you moved over to the return
button. You'll just have to remember which slide you came from and then
retun manually to that slide, which is easy enough by entering the slide
number and hitting enter.

Anyway, even with these short comings, it works. It will give you a
whiteboard and you can save and/or print it once you exit the slide show view.

E-mail me at (e-mail address removed) and I'll be glad to send you the file.

Ron
 
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