Viewing "Slides" option in PowerPoint 2007

[Jack21]

Can anyone help?

I have a piece of PowerPoint development that allows a user to create a brand compliant PowerPoint presentation and an edit function that includes code to insert additional slides from the master. My ideal would be that when the user selects that option from the edit function I close the form and view the "Slides" option. Can this be achieved by showing the "Slides" dialog box? If so, do you know what the command would be?

Thanks in advance
Jack

[HansV]

Er, what exactly do you mean by the "Slides option" or "Slides dialog"?

[Jack21]

In PowerPoint if you click on the "Slides" drop down arrow on the Home ribbon you will see a number of slides you can select from to add to your presentation.

Regards
Jack

[HansV]

I can't test this at the moment, but does this work?

SendKeys "%HI"

[Jack21]

Opens "Help". Do you know of a list I can refer to?

Thanks
Jack

[StuartR]

In PowerPoint if you click on the "Slides" drop down arrow on the Home ribbon you will see a number of slides you can select from to add to your presentation

My copy of PowerPoint 2007 does not have a "slides drop down arrow" on the home ribbon.

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[Jack21]

Sorry, if you select "New Slide", under "Slides". I really should be more descriptive, apologies.

[HansV]

Press Alt. You'll see letters appear on top of the buttons. The key combination for the button is Alt+letter(s), and the VBA equivalent of this keyboard shortcut is

SendKeys "%letter(s)"

[Jack21]

I have typed SendKeys "%letter(s)" in the Immediate Window and receive "etters" beneath the line. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks
Jack

[HansV]

I'm sorry. What I meant is, if you press Alt, you'll see something like this:

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Some buttons have a letter, or two letters. If the New Slide button has a letter, you should use that.

I'll be able to test in PowerPoint 2007 later today.

[StuartR]

I don't see any letters for the New Slide dropdown arrow in PowerPoint 2007

[Jack21]

Tried that - A is above the New Slide but takes you to Animation. I can't see any short cut keys for New Slide.

Cheers
Jack

[StuartR]

Tried that - A is above the New Slide but takes you to Animation. I can't see any short cut keys for New Slide

Control-M is the shortcut for new slide, but this does the equivalent of pushing the big New Slide button, not clicking the little arrow that gets the dropdown.

[HansV]

I have now tested on PowerPoint 2007. Microsoft has not exposed a way to display the New Slide dropdown using VBA.

The only workaround I can think of is a rather clumsy one: add the New Slide dropdown to the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT).

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Let's say that the New Slide button is the 4th button on the QAT. You can now use the line

SendKeys "%4"

to display the dropdown list from VBA code.If the New Slide button is in a different position on the QAT, adjust the line accordingly.

[Jack21]

Many thanks Hans. It is not a solution I can use as we give the user access to create their own QAT. I will just re-invent the wheel and give them access to create from the Edit Presentation incorported in the development environment.

Regards
Jack