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Casey Brown

Hi!
I feel like I might be missing an obvious property, but is there a way to
delete a Design's titlemaster through code? PPT XP.

A somewhat related question is: Is there any property a design has that
will tell me how many slides in the presentation use that design? If not,
it's not a big deal, as I can just loop through all the slides in the
presentation and count those that have the design name i'm after.

Thanks in advance for your time!

-Casey
 
View | Master | Slide Master. When displayed, delete the Title Master, then save
the template.

Why go to all the trouble of deleting it. You don't have to use it if you don't
want. There is only on slide that uses that design.

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Hi!
I feel like I might be missing an obvious property, but is there a way to
delete a Design's titlemaster through code? PPT XP.

A somewhat related question is: Is there any property a design has that
will tell me how many slides in the presentation use that design? If not,
it's not a big deal, as I can just loop through all the slides in the
presentation and count those that have the design name i'm after.

Thanks in advance for your time!

-Casey
 
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Hello,

PowerPoint doesn't provide the functionality (user interface which displays
number of slides using each design) that you are looking for without
resorting to VBA or add-ins.

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I feel like I might be missing an obvious property, but is there a way to
delete a Design's titlemaster through code? PPT XP.
Click to expand...

' Test first to see that it has a title master before trying to delete it
If ActivePresentation.Designs(index).HasTitleMaster Then
ActivePresentation.Designs(index).TitleMaster.Delete
End if

or

If ActivePresentation.Designs(design_name).HasTitleMaster Then
ActivePresentation.Designs(design_name).TitleMaster.Delete
End if
A somewhat related question is: Is there any property a design has that
will tell me how many slides in the presentation use that design? If not,
it's not a big deal, as I can just loop through all the slides in the
presentation and count those that have the design name i'm after.
Click to expand...

No way of doing it that I know of, other than what you've described.
 
Casey,
Use - ActivePresentation.Designs(1).TitleMaster.Delete

To detect how many slides are using a design you need to loop thru the
slides. If a design is not in use, then it will be automatically deleted if
the Preserve master property for that design is set to False.
 
Thank you, Steve and Shyam. Not sure how that nipped below my radar--I was
aware of Design's Delete method but didn't notice master's Delete().

I had been relying on designs to be automatically deleted if they weren't
being used by leaving the preserve master property false, but it wasn't
working quite correctly which prompted me to go with the "do-it-myself"
sledgehammer approach. I didn't test too thouroughly--i'm willing to admit
there's a good chance that it wasn't the Preserve property that wasn't
working, but more likely my own code. Oh well...it now does what I need it
to!

Thanks again--you guys are great!

-Casey
 
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