microsoft.public.powerpoint

Thanks John,

That's a nice piece of code. I'll file that away until I need it.

I do hope that someone will step in and have a solution for the
minimizing of a full screen PowerPoint Slideshow.

There is always a way. I just haven't found it yet...




On Oct 23, 8:26 am, John Wilson
wrote:
> Not sure if this is useful to you but this code will reduce/increase the size
> of a slide show. Have two action buttons one to shrink and one to grow. You
> can press the buttons more than once if you wish. I don't know a way to
> minimise a slide show to the task bar programatically but there probably is
> someone out there who does.
>
> Sub shrink()
> With SlideShowWindows(1)
> If .IsFullScreen Then
> .Height = .Height / 2
> .Width = .Width / 2
> .Top = 0
> .Left = 0
> End If
> End With
> End Sub
>
> Sub grow()
> With SlideShowWindows(1)
> If .IsFullScreen Then
> .Height = .Height * 2
> .Width = .Width * 2
> .Top = 0
> .Left = 0
> End If
> End With
> End Sub
>
> Don't go mad with zoom though there are limits!
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>
>
>
> "Merlin" wrote:
> > On Oct 22, 10:05 pm, Steve Rindsberg wrote:
> > > In article <1193083209.917019.48...@z24g2000prh.googlegroups.com>, Merlin
> > > wrote:
>
> > > > I found this code to do this, however, after creating the action
> > > > button on the starting slide and creating the Macro and assigning it
> > > > to the action button, it doesn't work. Can someone tell me what the
> > > > problem is?
>
> > > > ****Start Code****
>
> > > > Sub PPShortcuts_MinimizeAllSlideShows()
> > > > Application.Run "PPShortcuts.ppa!MinimizeAllSlideShows"
> > > > End Sub
>
> > > > ****End Code****
>
> > > That code alone won't do anything. It assumes that an addin named
> > > PPShortcuts.ppa is installed.
>
> > > -----------------------------------------
> > > Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
> > > PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
> > > PPTools: www.pptools.com
> > > ================================================
>
> > No, I'm unfamiliar with PowerPoint coding. I was assuming that the
> > call for PPShortcuts.ppa was some sort of Windows or PowerPoint VBA
> > code.
>
> > Do you know of any way other than the "Alt-Tab" method that I can use
> > with an action button? Most of the users of the Slide Show are using
> > the "Esc" to terminate the program because they want to use another
> > program. This slide show was set up to act as a menu, linking a half
> > dozen files to the same screen.