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JRSW, it works! Thanks! 
 
But sorry, in my question I foolishly took out a few lines of code to simplify and confused the issue :( 
Yes there is an 'On Error Resume Next' in my code. So I'm still not sure why mine only looked at Slide 1. 
The full code is 
 

<pre><code class="code-10 nolinks" id="code-20-41463609-1">strShapeToSelect = &quot;Note 85&quot;

For Each sld In ActivePresentation.Slides
 On Error Resume Next
 Set shp = sld.Shapes(strShapeToSelect)
 On Error GoTo 0
 If Not IsEmpty(shp) Then
 shp.Fill.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(255, 0, 0) 
 Exit For
 End If
Next
</code></pre>
 
Just curious. Not essential to my project.
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Oh yes. It's jumping out before looking at the next slide. (like you said JRSW!) 
Thanks. I'll close this question.
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My presentation has 10 slides. The shape &quot;Note 85&quot; is on Slide 2. The following code I thought would look for the shape on any of the slides. Strangely, it seems to only look at the shapes in Slide 1. But I can't see why!!! 
Can somebody see what I'm missing please? 
Thanks. 
 
Note: if &quot;Note 85&quot; is on Slide 1 it finds it. 
 

<pre><code class="code-10 nolinks" id="code-10-28926061-1">strShapeToSelect = &quot;Note 85&quot;

For Each sld In ActivePresentation.Slides

 Set shp = sld.Shapes(strShapeToSelect)

 If Not IsEmpty(shp) Then
 shp.Fill.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(255, 0, 0)
 
 Exit For
 End If
Next
</code></pre>
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My presentation has 10 slides. The shape "Note 85" is on Slide 2. The following code I thought would look for the shape on any of the slides. Strangely, it seems to only look at the shapes in Slide 1. But I can't see why!!!
Can somebody see what I'm missing please?
Thanks.

Note: if "Note 85" is on Slide 1 it finds it.

(CODE)

PowerPoint 2016 VBA - selecting a shape problem

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Microsoft PowerPoint

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