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Questions tagged [powerpoint-2013]

Use this tag for questions specific to the 2013 version of Microsoft's PowerPoint application.

Use this tag for questions specific to the 2013 version of Microsoft's PowerPoint application.

This tag should only be used if your question is programming-related. For non-programming-related PowerPoint questions, see SuperUser.

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How not to count page numbers for hidden slides in PPT?

In presentation mode, I want only unhidden slides to appear with consecutive page numbers. How can I avoid that hidden slides are counted?
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Play speed of embedded video in Powerpoint

I thought this would be an easy question to find an answer to but surprisingly I hit dead-ends when googling. My issue is that I have embedded a video from my computer in Powerpoint (in Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013) and I was hoping to…
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Use VBA to change colors of slide elements in Powerpoint 2013

I have a 150-slide powerpoint presentation that I want to revise due to a company rebranding effort. Our previous turquoise color has been used on text, lines, shapes and shape fills. I would like to build a VBA script that runs across the entire…
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PowerPoint 2013 loses focus after Export OLE VBA command

I create an OLE instance of PowerPoint and send commands to it: procedure ExportSlide(const SlideIndex : Integer); var ppt : Variant; begin ppt := GetActiveOleObject('Powerpoint.Application'); …
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How do I format individual lines in a textbox via Microsoft PowerPoint macros?

I want a textbox where the first line and subsequent lines of text have different formatting, but they must be in the same textbox. This is what I currently have, which applies the same formatting to all text. Sub geberateSlide() ... With…
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Text Alignment in VBA PowerPoint 2013

I have this code snippet which works fine, except for the last line when I try to align the text to the center. msoAlignRight was just for testing purposes to see if it moves to the right..but nothing happens. - edit: I have incorporated this from…
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Generic Way to Determine if Invoking a Property Throws an Error

Say you have one slide with one chart on it, and you run this code(in a version of Office later than 2007): Dim pptWorkbook As Object Dim result As Object Set pptWorkbook = ActivePresentation.slides(1).Shapes(1).Chart.ChartData.Workbook Set result…
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Is there a slide transition event for PowerPoint add-in (apps)

I'm working on a Office add-in for PowerPoint. This is a modern 'add-in' for the Office store, not the old style add-in. Is there a way to be notified when the active slide is changed? My scenario is that I want to do something in my add-in code…
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AfterShapeSizeChange application event not firing in PowerPoint 2013

I've got a simple test .pptm file to try to debug the failure of the AfterShapeSizeChange event in PowerPoint 2013 (15.0.4659.1001) on Windows 7 x64. In a standard module: Public EH As New ClassEH ' Run to initialise PowerPoint application…
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To fill shape with color in power point interop

I want to fill (255,168,0) color in my shape when I run this below code it kinda gives me a little lighter color in blue. private void Shape_fill_Click(object sender, RibbonControlEventArgs e) { Color_palette.Visible = true; …
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How to activate (make visible / enable / show) Selection Pane in PowerPoint using VBA?

In PowerPoint 2013, the Selection pane properties are available from a CommandBar object as follows: Application.CommandBars("Selection") (note that for PowerPoint 2010 and 2007 the name is "Selection and Visibility") When using Alt+F10 in the UI…
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Remove "Reserved" password from PowerPoint 2013

I have a PowerPoint file created in Microsoft Office 365 (2013), and we password protected it, the only thing is now I'm trying to remove it but it's still showing a password. It's showing 2 layers of password, if I set to encrypt it it shows that…
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Making bullets like in slide master

I created a slide master textbox where: * the first level of text is bold * the second level has a bullet (w/ indentation) * the third level has another bullet type (also w/ indentation) However, I have no idea how to recover this formatting once I…
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Find Wingdings character (Powerpoint 2013+)

I'm looking for a way to programatically find a special Wingdings character on a slide. e.g. the Wingdings character with a decimal code of 254. However since it seems to be easy to do in Word (see here:…
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How do I edit a PPTX file via Java while it is open in Microsoft PowerPoint?

With reference to POI - Cannot write to file while it is opened in Excel? The required functionality for my Java application under development is the PowerPoint version of the above: Using Java, create a slide and add content generated from captured…
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