Open another presentation

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Sara

Please help. I need to create a macro that will open
another presentation. I have never made a macro in
Powerpoint and have never written code in Powerpoint.
This macro needs to run when I click a button. I would
just use a form in Access, but a Powerpoint presentation
would look better. Thanks so much!
 
You don't need a macro to open another presentation from within PowerPoint.
Put any object on your slide (preferably a "Custom Action Button" under the
Autoshapes menu on the drawing Toolbar. When you draw the button a dialog
box pops up asking what action you want to assign the button. Click the
"Hyperlink to" dropdown and select "Other PowerPoint presentation". Browse
to your file and select it (make sure you saved it as a PPS file so it opens
in Slide Show mode). If you want, make another button on the new
presentation that sends you back to the original presentation. You also
have the option to select which file to "link to" when you jump back and
forth between presentations.

Bill Foley
www.pttinc.com
 
Thanks! That worked perfectly. Do you know any way to
make the buttons flat instead of raised? I don't want it
to actually look like a button.
 
You can do the same thing with just a rectangle or even text. Just create
the object, select it, right click and select Action Settings > Hyperlink
to, etc.
 
Draw anything you like or import a graphic, then apply the action setting to
it. It needn't be one of PPT's action buttons.


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