Macros possibly

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Wode

I want to set up a macros that will automatically print a file when the
presentation reaches a certain point. I assumed I would be able to do this
using a macros but it doesn't seem to work. I have used macros before in
excel but never in ppt, and then only simple ones using the record facilitiy.
 
Not as easy as you would think. *Something* must fire the printing from
within PowerPoint. In order to do that you need a trappable event, say the
"NextSlide" Event. The problem is PPT doesn't monitor its events natively
so you must write your own event handler to call on your printing code. In
other words, its not a simple macro. Sorry...


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I want to set up a macros that will automatically print a file when the
presentation reaches a certain point. I assumed I would be able to do this
using a macros but it doesn't seem to work.
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It may be possible to do this.

How does the presentation run when a user's viewing it?

Do they click buttons to advance from one slide to the next or does it
auto-run?

If buttons, then a button could trigger a printout and then advance to the next
slide. You'd put this on the slide BEFORE the one you want to be on when the
printout occurs, if it matters.

Will you distribute this to other people? If so, you can't be sure it'll work.
Their macro security settings might prevent your macros from running, or if
they use the Viewer instead of PPT, your macros won't work at all.
 
PowerPoint does seem to monitor the next slide event via

Sub OnSlideShowPageChange
Do this
End Sub

It does seem a little tempremental but once it's been called once it seems
to fire on every slide change

Worth a try but bear in mind Steve's comments on user security levels
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