DOCUMENT:Q163857 13-MAY-2002 [powerpt] TITLE :PPT: Sample VB Code Adds Multiple New Slides to Presentation PRODUCT :Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows PROD/VER:MACINTOSH:98; WINDOWS:97 OPER/SYS: KEYWORDS:kbcode kbmacro kbProgramming kbdta kbdtacode KbVBA _IK11573 ====================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information in this article applies to: - Microsoft PowerPoint 98 Macintosh Edition - Microsoft PowerPoint 97 for Windows - Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY ======= This article contains a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro (Sub procedure) that asks you how many slides you want to add to the current presentation and inserts the new slides based on the Bulleted List AutoLayout at the end of your presentation. 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Dim lLastSlide, i As Long Dim lToCreate, lResult As Long Dim Continue As Boolean Dim strInputPrompt, strResult, strPlural As String ' Initialize the message for the input box. strInputPrompt = "Enter the number of slides you want to create. " ' Loop until valid input. Do ' Ask how many slides do you want to create. strResult = InputBox(strInputPrompt) ' Check for valid input. If strResult = "" Then ' If NULL string returned, stop the macro. End End If ' Convert string to integer. lToCreate = CLng(strResult) ' Check for a type mismatch. If Err.Number <> 0 Then ' Reset the err object. Err.Clear ' Repeat the loop. Continue = False End If ' Check for valid entry. If lToCreate <= MAX_SLIDES And lToCreate > 0 Then Continue = True Else Continue = False End If ' Change the message of input box if invalid entry is made. If Continue = False Then strInputPrompt = "Invalid entry, please enter a value " _ & "between 1 and " & MAX_SLIDES & "." & Chr(13) _ & Chr(13) & strInputPrompt End If Loop Until Continue = True ' See whether slides or slide is needed in the MsgBox. If lToCreate = 1 Then strPlural = "slide" Else strPlural = "slides" End If ' Ask for confirmation. lResult = MsgBox("Are you sure you want to create " & lToCreate _ & " new " & strPlural & ", at the end of the presentation, using " _ & "the Bulleted List auto layout?", vbYesNo + vbQuestion) ' Find out what the user selected in the message box. If lResult = vbNo Then 'Stop the Macro. End End If ' Get the number of slides in the active presentation. lLastSlide = ActivePresentation.Slides.Count ' Create the new slides. For i = 1 To lToCreate lLastSlide = lLastSlide + 1 ActivePresentation.Slides.Add lLastSlide, DEFAULT_AUTO_LAYOUT ' Find out whether error occurred when creating the new slides. If Err.Number <> 0 Then MsgBox "Unable to add new slides to the presentation. " _ , vbCritical, "Error When Adding New Slides" ' Stop the macro. End End If Next i ' Display closing message. MsgBox "Successfully added " & lToCreate & " " & strPlural & _ " to the active presentation.", vbInformation, "Macro Done" End Sub REFERENCES ========== For more information about creating Visual Basic for Applications macros, click the Office Assistant in Microsoft PowerPoint, type "how to create a macro" (without the quotation marks) click Search, and then click to view "Create a macro in Visual Basic Editor." For more information about running Visual Basic for Applications macros, click the Office Assistant in Microsoft PowerPoint, type "how to run a macro" (without the quotation marks) click Search, and then click to view "Run a macro." NOTE: If the Assistant is hidden, click the Office Assistant button on the Standard toolbar. If the Assistant is not able to answer your query, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Q176476 OFF: Office Assistant Not Answering Visual Basic Questions 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 ppt97 macppt98 ppt98 mac ====================================================================== 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 : kbhowto ============================================================================= THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THE MICROSOFT KNOWLEDGE BASE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. 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