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Old 03-09-2020, 02:38 PM
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Hello,



I am working with an excel document with about 100 marlett checkboxes, aka 100 topics. The back end of this process works with Word macros to deliver a write up to a customer based on the topics they select.

I would also like on the front end to develop a macro in excel, to work with a PPT library. See image below:



In this example I have a PPT with slides already created that correspond to the 10 options. I want to do one of two things:
Copy that master slide deck, and erase the slides not selected.
Open the master slide deck, copy the two options (Similar Web and Uber Suggest) into a new PPT presentation.

I know I can reference slide locations using integers, but can I somehow name slides? This becomes quite an administrative task once you talk about 100 different options.

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Old 03-10-2020, 04:26 AM
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You can name the selected slide easily
Code:
ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange(1).name="myName"
The names must be unique and you can refer to the slide with
Code:
ActivePresentation.Slides("myName")
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You can name the selected slide easily
Code:
ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange(1).name="myName"
The names must be unique and you can refer to the slide with
Code:
ActivePresentation.Slides("myName")
Hi John,

Thank you for this. Great info.

Now what if I hand this project off to someone and they have no idea what I named my 100 slides. Is there code that will list the names of ALL slides? Or better yet all slides, and the index (position) of said slides?
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Try something based on this:

Code:
Sub readem()

Dim osld As Slide
Dim strReport As String
Dim inum As Integer
Dim strFileName
inum = FreeFile
strFileName = Environ("TEMP") & "\data.txt"
For Each osld In ActivePresentation.Slides
strReport = strReport & "Slide Index: " & osld.SlideIndex & vbTab _
& "Name: " & osld.Name & vbCrLf
Next osld
Open strFileName For Output As inum
    Print #inum, strReport
    Close inum
    Call Shell("NOTEPAD.EXE " & strFileName, vbNormalFocus)
End Sub
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Originally Posted by JohnWilson View Post
Try something based on this:

Code:
Sub readem()

Dim osld As Slide
Dim strReport As String
Dim inum As Integer
Dim strFileName
inum = FreeFile
strFileName = Environ("TEMP") & "\data.txt"
For Each osld In ActivePresentation.Slides
strReport = strReport & "Slide Index: " & osld.SlideIndex & vbTab _
& "Name: " & osld.Name & vbCrLf
Next osld
Open strFileName For Output As inum
    Print #inum, strReport
    Close inum
    Call Shell("NOTEPAD.EXE " & strFileName, vbNormalFocus)
End Sub
Absolutely brilliant!!!

Thank you so much.
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