PPT2000: Sample Visual Basic Code to Save a Presentation in Multiple Formats

• Microsoft PowerPoint 2000

SUMMARY

This article provides a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro that saves the active presentation in PowerPoint 4.0, 7.0, and 2000 formats.

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NOTE: You will recieve a runtime error if the proper translators have not been installed. To ensure that the proper translators are installed, you must save as Microsoft PowerPoint 4 and Microsoft PowerPoint 7 format at least once manually, from within PowerPoint. This will trigger the Office installer to load the necessary translators if they are not present.

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Q230746 PPT: Viewer: Presentation Macros Don't Run

Sample Visual Basic Procedure

   Sub SaveAsAllFormats()

      Dim FileName As String
      Dim ThePath As String

      ' Retrieve the name of the active presentation.
      FileName = ActivePresentation.Name

      ' Retrieve the path to the active presentation.
      ThePath = ActivePresentation.Path

      With ActivePresentation

         ' Save the presentation in PowerPoint 3.0 format.
         .SaveAs ThePath & FileName & " 3", ppSaveAsPowerPoint3

         ' Save the presentation as in PowerPoint 4.0 format.
         .SaveAs ThePath & FileName & " 4", ppSaveAsPowerPoint4

         ' Save the presentation in PowerPoint 7.0 format.
         .SaveAs ThePath & FileName & " 95", ppSaveAsPowerPoint7

         ' Save the presentation in PowerPoint 97 format.
         .SaveAs ThePath & FileName & " 97", ppSaveAsPresentation

      End With

   End Sub 

REFERENCES

For more information about using the sample code in this article, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q212536 OFF2000: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

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Version : WINDOWS:2000
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