PPT: Sample VB Code to Retrieve Summary Properties

• Microsoft PowerPoint 98 Macintosh Edition
• Microsoft PowerPoint 97 for Windows

SUMMARY

This article contains a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro (Sub procedure) that demonstrates how to retrieve the text from the Summary Tab of the properties dialog box. After retrieving the text, the macro prints the information to the Immediate/Debug window.

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Sample Visual Basic Procedure

   Sub GetSummaryProperties()

      ' Array used to store the summary properties.
      Dim SummaryProperties(1 To 9) As String

      With ActivePresentation.BuiltInDocumentProperties

         ' Get the Title.
         SummaryProperties(1) = .Item("Title").Value

         ' Get the Subject.
         SummaryProperties(2) = .Item("Subject").Value

         ' Get the Author.
         SummaryProperties(3) = .Item("Author").Value

         ' Get the Manager.
         SummaryProperties(4) = .Item("Manager").Value

         ' Get the Company.
         SummaryProperties(5) = .Item("Company").Value

         ' Get the Category.
         SummaryProperties(6) = .Item("Category").Value

         ' Get the Keywords.
         SummaryProperties(7) = .Item("Keywords").Value

         ' Get the Comments.
         SummaryProperties(8) = .Item("Comments").Value

         ' Get the Hyperlink Base.
         SummaryProperties(9) = .Item("Hyperlink Base").Value

      End With

      ' Display the properties in the Immediate window.
      ' To display the Immediate window:
      '    Click Immediate window on the View menu
      Dim i As Integer
      For i = 1 To 9

         ' Loop through the nine properties on the Summary tab.
         Debug.Print SummaryProperties(i)
      Next i

      MsgBox "To see the results, open the " _
         & "Immediate Window in the Visual Basic Editor." _
         , vbInformation, "Macro Completed"

   End Sub

REFERENCES

For more information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q163435
   TITLE     : VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for
               Applications