PPT2000: Sample Code to Reset Action Settings

• Microsoft PowerPoint 2000

SUMMARY

This article contains a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro (Sub procedure) that disables the Mouse Click and Mouse Over events for every object within the active presentation. At the end of the macro a message box is displayed indicating that changes were made to the presentation.

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Q230746 PPT: Viewer: Presentation Macros Don't Run

Sample Visual Basic Procedure

   Sub ResetActionSettings()

      Dim SlideObject As Slide
      Dim ShapeObject As Shape
      Dim MouseClickCount As Long
      Dim MouseOverCount As Long
      Dim Total As Long

      ' Initialize the counters.
      MouseClickCount = 0
      MouseOverCount = 0
      Total = 0

      ' Outer loop goes through every slide in the Active presentation.
      For Each SlideObject In Application.ActivePresentation.Slides

         ' Inner loop goes through every shape in the presentation.
         For Each ShapeObject In SlideObject.Shapes

            ' See whether object has Mouse click events.
            With ShapeObject.ActionSettings(ppMouseClick)

               ' Reset the object action to none, add 1 to counter.
               If .Action <> ppActionNone Then
                  .Action = ppActionNone
                  MouseClickCount = MouseClickCount + 1
               End If
            End With

            ' See whether object has mouse over events.
            With ShapeObject.ActionSettings(ppMouseOver)

               ' Reset the object action to none.
               If .Action <> ppActionNone Then
                  .Action = ppActionNone
                  MouseOverCount = MouseOverCount + 1
               End If
            End With

         Next ShapeObject

      Next SlideObject

      ' See whether any objects were changed.
      If MouseOverCount = 0 And MouseClickCount = 0 Then
         MsgBox "No objects had mouse events. No changes were made " _
            & "to the presentation.", vbInformation, _
            "No Mouse Events Found"
      Else

         ' This is the total number of objects changed.
         Total = MouseOverCount + MouseClickCount

         ' Set up the message box.
         If Total = 1 Then
            MsgBox "The action settings were successfully reset.", _
               vbInformation, Total & " Object Reset"
         Else
            MsgBox "The action settings were successfully reset.", _
               vbInformation, Total & " Objects Reset"
         End If

      End If

   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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