I have created a slide show and one of the main tasks is to ask the user questions and then have them press a true or false button(s) to see the answer or explanation.



The issue I have is that once a button is selected the resulting textbox value holds that result, so when I re-start the show instead of having a blank textbox it now has the last entered result.

I need to figure out how to do run a routine that will set all my objects to their intended state either upon starting the slide show or when a slide becomes active. In visual basic there is a form Load routine that does this, however in Power Point there is no form load or Slide load event

Help..

There are no similar events in PowerPoint. You would really need to write a with events class but this isn't simple and difficult to make work outside of an AddIn. IF you are accessing vba during the show (sounds like it) then there is a solution.

Sub OnSlideShowTerminate(ByVal Wn As SlideShowWindow)
Dim osld As Slide
Dim opres As Presentation
Set opres = ActivePresentation
For Each osld In opres.Slides
' insert code here to clear textbox
On Error Resume Next
' will depend whether it's an ActivX box or a normal textbox
'for ActivX
osld.Shapes("TextBox1").OLEFormat.Object.Text = "" ' use actual name of course
'normal shape
osld.Shapes("name of shape").TextFrame.DeleteText
Next osld
End Sub

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I will give this a shot.. Thank you for your help

Hi
I'm using the OnSlideShowTerminate event and it is working well if I stop the presentation in the middle but if it ends (after the last slide) I don't get it to work, any ideas?

Thank you I will give it a try

It should still run OK. so I don't know what the problem is.

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