slides be low that. Un der the col lection of slides, put each of your
individual slides (if you chose a big pre sentation,
just pick the
first three or four slides). Under each slide, put the various ob -
jects on the slide. See Fig ure 3.4 if you are hav ing trou ble getting
started. Don’t worry if you don’t get all the ob jects;
the pur pose
of this ex ercise is to be gin to think about all the ob jects that you
will be able to ma nipulate with VBA.
Figure 3.4. Ex ample Chart of the Parts of a PowerPoint Pre sentation
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Pick one ob ject from one slide and list as many prop erties as you
can. The pur pose of this exercise is not to
get a de tailed list of ev -
erything about a presentation or an in dividual ob ject but to start
thinking about how a presentation is or ganized and what prop er-
ties ob jects might have for you to manipulate. Don’t worry if you
can’t think of all the prop erties (ob jects
contain properties about
which you don’t even know) or even if your prop erties don’t
match PowerPoint’s “official” prop erties. To get you started,
think about a rectangle’s size, lo cation, and color. You might
also se lect the ob ject within PowerPoint and try to see what prop -
erties you can change (click
on the ob ject to select it, go to the
Format menu, and choose the last item in the menu, which will
be the type of ob ject you are for matting, i.e., “Picture” if the ob -
ject
is a picture, “Text Object” if the object is a text object,
“AutoShape” if the ob ject is a drawn shape, etc.). Any thing you
can change with traditional PowerPoint
features you will be able
to change with VBA.
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