FYI: Microsoft PowerPoint

[Gen-X]

For those who are interested....

I just spent the weekend "hacking" around inside MS PowerPoint. Designed myself a VBA form and some additional macros for generating CD Jewel Case covers. The Slides are created dynamically depending on what you have selected on the form as the contents to the pages.

If anyone any questions regarding PowerPoint I think I may be in a position to answer them now.

Some points to note with VBA in powerpoint :

- Works very similar to VBA in word and excel
- Occassionally gets into trouble where "shapes" on a slide
  are not updated in time to run the next command. Using
  "DoEvents" only *sometimes* works to cure this.
- The object structure isn't the easiest to navigate
- There isn't the nice "TextWidth()" method for determining
  how wide a string is using a specific font
- You have to calculate for yourself how wide 1 inch or cm
  is if you want to set lengths for things. There are no
  methods for performing these conversions that I could find

[jackbee]

Maybe you can check my thread:
General VB Questions
5-13-2000
Thanks

[jackbee]

I designed a form recently in Powerpoint and it seems that there is no such thing as a 'Tab Order' or 'EntryKey' behaviour.
The documentation seems straightforward enough, but doesn't work.
I couldn't get from one textbox to another at run time without using the mouse. Can you?
I think it must be designed this way as a presentation app. wouldn't expect user input.
If that's true, why have textboxes?
I'm confused