Plug-in/Add-in

[rmadala]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel Hi,

I would like to develop a plug-in/Add-in for the powerpoint 2008. But, I could not find the details of how I could do that. On Windows, we have great support, but not on MAC. Can somebody point me to how I can develop this plug-in/Add-in

Thanks,
Raveendra

 

[Jim Gordon Mac MVP]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel
Hi,

I would like to develop a plug-in/Add-in for the powerpoint 2008. But, I
could not find the details of how I could do that. On Windows, we have
great support, but not on MAC. Can somebody point me to how I can
develop this plug-in/Add-in

Thanks,
Raveendra

Hi Raveendra

VBA Add-ins are not supported on Mac PowerPoint 2008. They are supported
in PowerPoint 2004 and will be supported later this year in PowerPoint
2011.

If you need to make something immediately, you can build the add-in
using AppleScript. It helps if you are already familiar with the
PowerPoint object model. This page is about Word, but it applies to
Excel and PowerPoint, as well:
http://word.mvps.org/mac/applescript-vba.html

You can build your add-in using Windows Office 2007 or 2010 for now and
then fine adapt it for Mac when PowerPoint 2011 comes out later this
year if you have the luxury of time. Keep in mind Active-X was never
ported to the Mac by the open source community, so avoid active-x. If
you need to build stuff outside of VBA then you'll need to learn
AppleScript and/or Objective-C or other language that you can access via
AppleScript.

The PowerPoint VBA object model is almost identical, so go ahead and
build on the PC.

-Jim

 

[rmadala]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for the response. Just out of curiosity, would COM Add-in work with MAC office. Would it ever work?

Thanks,
Raveendra

 

[Jim Gordon Mac MVP]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for the response. Just out of curiosity, would COM Add-in work
with MAC office. Would it ever work?

Thanks,
Raveendra

Anything that relies on the Windows Operating system rather than the
Office object model will not work on a Mac, unless you're using
Silverlight, which is cross-platform. That said, you should be able to
create a Mac version of whatever it is that you're trying to accomplish.

If you run into specific issues, this is the right forum to post your
questions.

-Jim

 

[rmadala]

Thank you it helps. I will go via Apple Script route.