Intercepting Save / Exit Menu Commands in Powerpoint

[Guest]

Hi,

Following on from a similar post in the Excel Programming group I have a
programming need to be able to intercept the menus "File/Open",
"File/Exit", "File/Save" and "File/SaveAs" within Powerpoint. I've managed
to do
this in Word by overwriting the "FileOpen" "FileExit" "FileSave" and
"FileSaveAs" macros, which then drive a c# com object to stream the data to
(or from) a seperate server. Is this possible within Powerpoint, and if
so, what
are the Macro names to overwrite?

Thanks for any help or pointers, and apologies if this is the wrong group to
post this question to.

Pete

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi,

Following on from a similar post in the Excel Programming group I have a
programming need to be able to intercept the menus "File/Open",
"File/Exit", "File/Save" and "File/SaveAs" within Powerpoint. I've managed
to do
this in Word by overwriting the "FileOpen" "FileExit" "FileSave" and
"FileSaveAs" macros, which then drive a c# com object to stream the data to
(or from) a seperate server. Is this possible within Powerpoint, and if
so, what
are the Macro names to overwrite?

Thanks for any help or pointers, and apologies if this is the wrong group to
post this question to.

This is one of two groups that you might want to post to ... there are also
several Public.Office.Development.* groups that'd be worth asking in as well.

PowerPoint doesn't allow us to grab menu functions by writing macros with the
same name, alas.

I suspect your best bet will be to trap events and respond to them instead.

Make PPT respond to events
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00004.htm