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Create agenda in PowerPoint
Hi,
I have many presentations with agenda slides. If I make a change to the agenda I need to update all slides. The structure of the first agenda slide is:
Section 1 (highlighted with a fill color)
* Description of section 1
Section 2
* Description of section 2
etc
The second agenda slide will look like this:
Section 1
* Summary of section 1
Section 2 (highlighted with a fill color)
* Description of section 2
etc
This is a very nice way of presenting but a pain to update if something changes.
What I want to do is to create a macro which takes information from e.g. a hidden slide and copies the right information to all agenda slides.
Questions:
1) Can I name the different textboxes in a easy way? (section1_description, section1_summary etc)
2) Can multiple textboxes have the same name?
3) How can I create the macro that actually copies the information?
Thanks!
I have many presentations with agenda slides. If I make a change to the agenda I need to update all slides. The structure of the first agenda slide is:
Section 1 (highlighted with a fill color)
* Description of section 1
Section 2
* Description of section 2
etc
The second agenda slide will look like this:
Section 1
* Summary of section 1
Section 2 (highlighted with a fill color)
* Description of section 2
etc
This is a very nice way of presenting but a pain to update if something changes.
What I want to do is to create a macro which takes information from e.g. a hidden slide and copies the right information to all agenda slides.
Questions:
1) Can I name the different textboxes in a easy way? (section1_description, section1_summary etc)
2) Can multiple textboxes have the same name?
3) How can I create the macro that actually copies the information?
Thanks!
ASKER
Hi GlennaShaw,
this would work if all the agenda slides looked the same way but as I wrote in my first post this is not the case. You could say that each of these slides are a subset of the main agenda. After each section is presented the description of that section changes into a summary of the section. Also the "highlight" is changed to the next section. See the attached example. Sorry for the confusion, hope this makes it more clear.
agenda-example.pdf
this would work if all the agenda slides looked the same way but as I wrote in my first post this is not the case. You could say that each of these slides are a subset of the main agenda. After each section is presented the description of that section changes into a summary of the section. Also the "highlight" is changed to the next section. See the attached example. Sorry for the confusion, hope this makes it more clear.
agenda-example.pdf
Did you check out the Code Sample?
Will it always be formatted like your PDF?
Will there ever be a section 3 or section 4, etc...
Within the sections will there always be only two things (description or summary) etc...?
Will there ever be a section 3 or section 4, etc...
Within the sections will there always be only two things (description or summary) etc...?
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Hi, since we did not find an exact solution I have downgraded it a bit. Hope you understand
See: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HP101171151033.aspx Although this is talking about copying and pasting excel, it works the same for a slide.
There's also this VB code example:
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00540.htm