by YOUpresent | Feb 2, 2015 | Blog, Presentation Automation, VBA Macros
When programming PowerPoint in VBA, VB, .Net etc., a developer will often use the Presentations.Count method to return the number of items in the Application.Presentations collection. They may then loop through each presentation in the collection and perform various...
by YOUpresent | Oct 22, 2014 | Blog, VBA Macros
Bugs with solutions Have you discovered a bug in PowerPoint? Perhaps while designing slides or programming using VBA? Let us know and we’ll add it here and discuss it with PowerPoint MVPs to see if we can find a workaround. And maybe even have Microsoft take a...
by YOUpresent | Sep 15, 2014 | Blog, Photography, PowerPoint Graphics, VBA Macros
They say a picture speak a thousand words. Sometimes though, you’d like to control the speed at which those thousand words are delivered to your audience! A great way of doing this is to gradually reveal your picture during your slide show. The built in...
by YOUpresent | Sep 11, 2014 | Blog, Presentation Automation, VBA Macros
Knowing the area of a shape in PowerPoint can be very useful when wanting to visually represent a percentage of that shape. Let’s say we have a map of a country represented by a vector shape in PowerPoint, Excel or Word and we want to visualise that half of that...
by YOUpresent | Sep 9, 2014 | Blog, VBA Macros
It’s sometimes useful to know what type of object you have selected on a slide. Why? Consider the case where someone created a circle, added text to it and then prevented someone else from editing the text by copying and pasting the shape back to the slide as a...
