Learn how to use VBA in PowerPoint to make macro-enabled presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint. Use Visual Basic for Applications to enhance your presentations and slides.
Microsoft PowerPoint is a powerful tool for creating and delivering presentations. While it provides extensive functionality out-of-the-box, there are times when users need to automate repetitive tasks or implement custom solutions. This is where Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) comes in. VBA is a programming language integrated into the Microsoft Office suite, allowing users to …
Sometimes, you need to rename a shape object from the default name to any desired name, especially if you will deal with VBA code in the future and want to use more descriptive names for shapes and objects. This snippet will help you rename objects easily using a Macro. To use it, just create a …
This tutorial will give you a better idea how to create your custom PowerPoint 2010 Add-Ins using VBA code and creating a custom toolbar in the ribbon so you can call macros. This kind of add-in let you do multiple useful actions for example we can create a tool to export the presentation to PDF, …
In Excel it is straightforward the way to open VBA Editor to edit macros and functions. In PowerPoint you need to do something slightly different. However, it is pretty easy. In PowerPoint you can just create a new Macro by going to View tab and then click on Macros button. Here a new list of Macros will appear …
If you want to convert a MS Word document from the old Doc to the new Docx format, you can usually do this via File -> Save As -> Save as type. However, sometimes you might need to convert a number of old Doc files to the new Docx format. In such a case manually …
You might have downloaded an Office template and received a prompt to enable macros. You might also have noticed that the prompt also comes with a warning that enabling macros can be harmful for your computer. But macros aren’t exclusive to Microsoft Office files, as a macros are widely used by programmers around the world …
If you want to use a Macro script in PowerPoint to automatically print a slide to a specific printer that is not the default printer, or if you want to detect if a certain printer name is present in the system, then you can use the following VBA Macro to perform this task. The Macro …
We enjoy to read Viziblr blog by Saveen Reddy because he have good tutorials and tips for presenters that can help you to boost your productivity. This time we would like to show you how to use PowerPoint to make screencast titles or to run a software demo. The approach involves a bit of coding …
When we created our add-in for PowerPoint to export slides as images we faced an interesting challenge. Aside of choosing a specific output size, we needed to get the actual size of the PowerPoint presentation while iterating through each slide. This way we were able to calculate the new width and height (and aspect ratio) …
If you are writing your own macros and VBA code in PowerPoint, especially if you are creating a PowerPoint add-in, sometimes you might find useful to get and save your settings globally. In Windows, the Registry is a good place to save this kind of settings. Today we will learn how to use PowerPoint and …