PPT2000: Cannot Set Save Picture Preview Programmatically

ID: Q222755

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft PowerPoint 2000

SUMMARY

When you save a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, you can save a preview picture along with the presentation file. A preview is a graphic representation of the first slide in the presentation. Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications does not provide a property or method for the Save Picture Preview option. This article provides a sample Visual Basic macro that uses the SendKeys command to achieve this result.

To store a preview picture with the presentation file, follow these steps:

On the File menu, click Properties.

Click the Summary tab, and click to select the Save Preview Picture check box.

To see a preview of a presentation, click Open on the File menu, select a presentation, and click Preview.

MORE INFORMATION

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NOTE: The following macro examples only work from within the PowerPoint application. Visual Basic for Applications macros are not supported by the Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer. For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q230746 PPT: Viewer: Presentation Macros Don't Run

The following Visual Basic code uses the SendKeys command to send a series of keystrokes to the active window.

NOTE: You may experience unexpected results if PowerPoint is not the active window.


   Sub ToggleSavePreviewPicture()

      ' Sends ALT+F to open the File menu.
      SendKeys ("%f"), True

      ' Sends ALT+I to open the Properties dialog box and displays the
      ' Summary tab.
      SendKeys ("i"), False

      ' Selects the Save Preview Picture check box.
      SendKeys ("%v"), True

   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
Platform : WINDOWS
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