Couple days ago, i wanted to automate the rather mundane task of creating some PowerPoint slides. When automating PowerPoint you typically work with the Slides and Shapes collection. Slides is rather self explanatory, and shapes is pretty much everything else including text boxes, action buttons, media objects, labels, pictures, callouts, flowcharts and so on and … Read more
A couple days ago, a reader asked about there is a way to automate creation of PowerPoint presentations from scratch and then quickly add slides to that existing presentation. I though that script might be highly in the list of the most useful PowerPoint Macros. As we indicated in the past, PowerPoint doesn’t include a … Read more
Here’s a question we got from a reader: I am trying to figure out macro development from going through code examples in your website. I figured out that some of the examples point out to the developer menu in Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook. For some reason, i don’t see that menu item in the … Read more
Last updated: June 2020 Applicable to: Office 2019 and older. Windows only. Here’s a question from a reader: As part of my quarterly report presentation to management, I often need to copy several general information slides from other presentations. Not a big deal, but it would be a significant saver to be able to automate … Read more