Shapes.Name

[FredrikT]

Lets say I add 10 TextBox Shapes top my PowerPoint
presentaion by drawing them on the presentation. Then I
can't give them a name, like you can do with a VB Control
TextBox using Properties. In a a macro, if I want to refer
to my created Text Box Shapes, I do it like
Application.ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Shapes(#)

This is kind of messy, because the number you are
referring to isn't fixed to a certain shape. So if I
delete shape(1), all the other shapes will change their
number. And you cant see which shape is which number.

I know I can refer to the shapes by name, but the only
possibility to assign them a name, is programatically.

Any suggestions on how to handle this?

 

[FredrikT]

I found a useful tip here http://www.tek-
tips.com/gfaqs.cfm/lev2/4/lev3/32/pid/707/fid/1698

but please post other input on this, of you have some..

 

[FredrikT]

And here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?
scid=kb;EN-US;Q244379