I have a pptm that someone else created, that I'd like to modify. They put 3 command buttons on the slidemaster that, when clicked, move the current slide into the section number corresponding to the text number on the button. So, if the button marked 3 is clicked, the slide is moved to the 3rd section in the presentation.

I'm trying to duplicate these buttons to allow more choices of sections. I'd like to have 10 sections, so I need 10 buttons. Each would have the same code behind it as the existing ones do, but (it seems to me) just edited with appropriate numbers.



The existing buttons work great. I see that there is a public sub corresponding to each button, and I see the private sub (that each button's sub calls) below those 3 public subs that does the moving of the slides to the desired sections.

The problem is that I can't seem to find how the buttons on the slidemaster call their corresponding subs, so I can't see how to create buttons that do what the existing ones do. I've looked everywhere I can think of.

Thanks!

You don't need Command Buttons at all.

Add ten shapes to the master and add text 1,2,3,... 10 etc (nothing else) so that each button has the number of the section

Now add a normal code module and add these few lines of code

Sub sectionFind(oshp As Shape)
Dim osld As Slide
Dim lngSec As Long
lngSec = Val(oshp.TextFrame.TextRange)
For Each osld In ActivePresentation.Slides
If osld.sectionIndex = lngSec Then
SlideShowWindows(1).View.GotoSlide osld.SlideIndex
Exit Sub
End If
Next
End Sub

Give each of the ten shapes the same action of run this macro.

See if that works and is maybe simpler?

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That's great! Thanks very much!