VBA, PowerPoint Viewer and the Web

[Christine Fournier]

I use PowerPoint 2003 to make some activities for the students I work with
and I think it's a great tool. I would like to learn how to use the macros
and some VBA to enhance my activities. Only, I think I have read somewhere
that the macros and the VBA won't work with PowerPoint Viewer. Is it true ?
In the classrooms, they don't have PowerPoint 2003 so I use the PowerPoint
Viewer.
If that don't work, could I ask my school to have some Web space to convert
my presentations as Web pages ? Would the macros and the VBA work ?

And finally, do you have any suggestions on how to learn VBA ? I have a book
on using VBA with Office but it doesn't talk about PowerPoint.

Thank you

Christine./

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Christine,

Unfortunately, macros won't work with the Viewer or on the Web. You need
the full version of PowerPoint to run them. If you are still interested
in using VBA with PowerPoint, you should check out my Web site:

http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

It is the companion Web site to my book, Powerful PowerPoint for
Educators, which should be just what you need to get started.

--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

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[Chirag]

VBA/macros do not work in PowerPoint Viewer. Also, the VBA/macros in
presentations do not work or get converted to web when a presentation is
converted to web pages.

- Chirag

PowerShow - View multiple PowerPoint slide shows simultaneously
http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html

 

[Christine Fournier]

Thank you David and Chirag,

I'm a bit disappointed that it won't work with PowerPoint Viewer. I guess I
won't get through the trouble of learning VBA if I can't you it in the
classrooms I work with.

Christine./

 

[Austin Myers]

Christine,

I do understand your disappointment with the viewer. But, all is not lost!
Perhaps if you tell us what you have in mind we might be able to show you
how to do it without the need for VBA or macros.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia, PFCPro, PFCExpress
http://www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Christine Fournier]

Hi Austin,

What I would like to do is a test of different concepts. For exemple, I have
slides with colored squares. I ask "Show me the red square, RED". I don't
want to give the children a feedback because this is a test. I make the
square they click on bigger and I bring them to the next slide.

What I would have like to do is this :

When the child click on a square on page one, the name of the colour of this
square appears on a page at the end of the show so I could print the results
at the end of the test. I was thinking about something like this :

colour red : answer is red
colour blue : answer is yellow
colour green : answer is green
....

For rigth now what I did is disabled the manual transition and have a last
page written "finish" where the child can't do anything (no transition
possible). When the child is finish I use the right click of the mouse to
navigate through the slides and I can see the answers the child gave because
the square of the answer is bigger.

Any suggestions will be appreciated,

Christine./

 

[Christine Fournier]

Hi Austin,

What I would like to do is a test of different concepts. For exemple, I have
slides with colored squares. I ask "Show me the red square, RED". I don't
want to give the children a feedback because this is a test. I make the
square they click on bigger and I bring them to the next slide.

What I would have like to do is this :

When the child click on a square on page one, the name of the colour of this
square appears on a page at the end of the show so I could print the results
at the end of the test. I was thinking about something like this :

colour red : answer is red
colour blue : answer is yellow
colour green : answer is green
....

For rigth now what I did is disabled the manual transition and have a last
page written "finish" where the child can't do anything (no transition
possible). When the child is finish I use the right click of the mouse to
navigate through the slides and I can see the answers the child gave because
the square of the answer is bigger.

Any suggestions will be appreciated,

Christine./

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Without VBA, this is probably the best you are going to do in PowerPoint.
Keeping track of answers on a summary slide is a good job for VBA (and I
have examples on my site).
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

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