VBA trigger for drop down list box in powerpoint

CatMan · #1 12-03-2013, 12:29 PM

Hi Forum,

I have a powerpoint presentation with 100 slides, I would like to provide a way for the user to navigate (jump) to one of these slides rather than have to step through them sequentially. I was thinking a drop down menu might be a good solution, the user would simply select from the dropdown list and an automation would jump to the corresponding slide. Please feel free to suggest a simpler approach howerver if you agree with the drop down method, below shows what I have done so far. Also I have attached a non-working example of what I am trying to accomplish.

Thanks everyone for reading this thread,

The internet is full of examples of how to make a drop down menu (most suggest using MSOFFICE InfoPath (I am using 2007) and specify these steps: (1) design a form template, (2) blank, controls, (3) drop down list box, (4) properties, (5) then add some drop down criterial. I can then copy and paste this into a powerpoint presentation and in presentation mode I now have a workng drop down menu. How do I make this drop down menu trigger some VBA code? My plan is to have the VBA code read the contents of the drop down then match it to a list on slide 101 (which is represented by slide 4 in the attachment) which will yield a slide number, and then jump to that slide number. The list on slide 101 will be copied from Excel and pasted into slide 101 (slide 4 of the attachment) for use by the macro.

Back to MSOFFICE InfoPath, if I right click on the drop down menu and select PROGRAMMING, I see Changing Event, Validating Event, Changed Event. This looks like the VBA trigger I am looking for, when I select one of these a bunch of code appears in the VBA editor of InfoPath (a message says "this form template must be saved before VBA code can be added..."). When I paste the drop down list box into PowerPoint this code is excluded. If I run the code from the vba editor of InfoPath it puts InfoPath into preview mode. Am I suppose to develop the VBA code in InfoPath or in my powerpoint presentation? Also, I could use some help writing this macro, how do I read the contents of the drop down list box?

Here is the code that InfoPath provided:

Code:

Imports Microsoft.Office.InfoPath
Imports System
Imports System.Windows.Forms
Imports System.Xml
Imports System.Xml.XPath
Imports mshtml
 
Namespace Template2
PublicClass FormCode
' Member variables are not supported in browser-enabled forms.
' Instead, write and read these values from the FormState
' dictionary using code such as the following:
'
' Private Property _memberVariable() As Object
' Get
' _memberVariable = FormState("_memberVariable")
' End Get
' Set
' FormState("_memberVariable") = value
' End Set
' End Property
' NOTE: The following procedure is required by Microsoft Office InfoPath.
' It can be modified using Microsoft Office InfoPath.
PrivateSub InternalStartup(ByVal sender AsObject, ByVal e As EventArgs) HandlesMe.Startup
AddHandler EventManager.XmlEvents("/my:myFields/my:field1").Changing, AddressOf field1_Changing
AddHandler EventManager.XmlEvents("/my:myFields/my:field1").Validating, AddressOf field1_Validating
EndSub
PublicSub field1_Changing(ByVal sender AsObject, ByVal e As XmlChangingEventArgs)
' Ensure that the constraint you are enforcing is compatible
' with the default value you set for this XML node.
' Write your code here.
EndSub
PublicSub field1_Validating(ByVal sender AsObject, ByVal e As XmlValidatingEventArgs)
' Write your code here.
EndSub
EndClass
EndNamespace

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