DOCUMENT:Q163532  13-MAY-2002  [powerpt]
TITLE   :PPT: For Each Loop Doesn't Find All Shapes on a Slide
PRODUCT :Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows
PROD/VER:MACINTOSH:98; WINDOWS:97
OPER/SYS:
KEYWORDS:kbcode kbmacro kbProgramming kbdta kbdtacode KbVBA _IK11573

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The information in this article applies to:

 - Microsoft PowerPoint 98 Macintosh Edition 
 - Microsoft PowerPoint 97 for Windows 
 - Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications 
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SYMPTOMS
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When you use a For Each...Next statement to loop through and remove all shapes
on a specified slide, some shapes are not deleted. For example, the following
code does not delete all the shapes on a slide.

      For Each shapeObject In ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Shapes
    
         shapeObject.Delete
    
      Next shapeObject

CAUSE
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When you use a For Each...Next statement in a Microsoft Visual Basic for
Applications procedure, the procedure keeps track of each shape that it finds.
When it finds the first shape, it knows that the next shape is the second shape
on the slide. However, when it finds the first shape and then deletes it, the
next shape becomes the first shape on the slide. Consequently, each subsequent
shape on the slide is assigned a new position.

RESOLUTION
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As the following sample Visual Basic procedure demonstrates, you can replace the
For Each...Next statement with a Do...Loop statement (including the While
keyword) to remove all the shapes on a slide.

      Sub DeleteAllShapes()

         ' Delete every shape on slide 1.
         With ActivePresentation.Slides(1)
            While (.Shapes.Count > 0)
               .Shapes(1).Delete
            Wend
         End With

      End Sub

MORE INFORMATION
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REFERENCES
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For more information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications,
please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   Q163435 VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications

Additional query words: 8.00 ppt8 vba vbe macppt mac_ppt ppt98 powerpt

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Keywords          : kbcode kbmacro kbProgramming kbdta kbdtacode KbVBA _IK11573 
Technology        : kbHWMAC kbOSMAC kbPowerPtSearch kbZNotKeyword6 kbPowerPt97 kbPowerPt97Search kbPowerPt98Search kbPowerPt98 kbVBASearch kbZNotKeyword3
Version           : MACINTOSH:98; WINDOWS:97
Hardware          : MAC x86
Issue type        : kbprb

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