Chapter 9. Programming PowerPoint

     

In this chapter

• Opening, creating, and working with PowerPoint presentations.

• Creating, inserting, and manipulating PowerPoint slides.

• Adding shapes to a slide and formatting those shapes .

• Assigning slide show settings and running a slide show.

• Using VBA to create an entire PowerPoint presentation from scratch.

This chapter shows you how to leverage your VBA knowledge in the PowerPoint environment by examining a few PowerPoint objects and their associated properties, methods , and events. To illustrate these items, I'll build an example presentation strictly by using VBA code.