Powerpoint Rolling date

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Chad

Hello, we just installed a PC screen in our employee break area that has a
rolling presentation of whats going on in the plant and our HR manager
changes the info once a week. My question is there is a page that displays a
date (How many days without a lost time accident) and we have to go and
change it every day. Is there any way we can get it to change with code like
access?
 
Glen, I found this site earlier its about the only site that had any info on
powerpoint! Anyway im new to powerpoint so could you point me to what im
looking for on this website? Thanks!
 
Im new to all this and it appears this is over my head! I dont quite
understand how it works or what to even do to get it working... Thanks!
 
Kind of depends what your coding skills are and how much time you want to
devote to it. :-)

I suppose the easiest way would be to create a "tag" for the presentation to
store a bit of information in. Use the OnSlideShowBegin function to capture
today's date and store it to the tag. Each time the presentation is ran
compare today's date with the stored value and increment a counter (n=1+1)
and then display the count on your slide.

If you are not familiar with VBA you might go to the MS web site and search
for a file called "vbapp10.chm". It has the entire PPT object model and
examples of how to use each feature.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com
 
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