VBA & PowerPoint

[Senad Isanovic]

Can you give me some more information about VBA and PowerPoint. Manuals and
code examples. I understand that PPT handles VBA code on other way then for
example Word. I created a macro in PPT, then added a button in the
commandbar that runs that macro but when I send the ppt file to some other
user the button is not there. So this makes me a little bit confused..

 

[Guest]

Try here and scroll down to "programming powerpoint"
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/

A toolbar button will only work on your machine. You will need to put a
button in the presentation and use slide show>action settings to enable it to
activate the macro

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Can you give me some more information about VBA and PowerPoint. Manuals and
code examples. I understand that PPT handles VBA code on other way then for
example Word. I created a macro in PPT, then added a button in the
commandbar that runs that macro but when I send the ppt file to some other
user the button is not there. So this makes me a little bit confused..

Word, Excel and PowerPoint all handle this sort of thing in different ways.

Word templates, for example, can have code that runs automatically and toolbar
customizations that appear only when the template or a document based on it is
active. There's no equivalent in PowerPoint.

To distribute solutions that include toolbar buttons, you need to create an
add-in; anyone who wants to use your toolbar must install the addin.

More detailed information is here:

Creating and Installing Add-ins, Toolbars, Buttons
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/index.html#name_Creating_and_Installing_Add-ins
-_Toolbars-_Buttons_