Use Visual Basic for Applications to extract slide notes in PowerPoint 2002 (307792)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
  • Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications 6.4
This article was previously published under Q307792

SUMMARY

You may want to extract all note information that is associated with your slides in Microsoft PowerPoint 2002. This article contains sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code that is contained in a macro. This code demonstrates how to retrieve and how to print out comments in the Debug window from each slide in a PowerPoint presentation.

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Note The following macro examples work only in PowerPoint. Visual Basic for Applications macros are not supported by the Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

230746 PPT: Viewer: Presentation Macros Don't Run Within the Viewer 



Sub GetAllComments()

        
        'Loop through all slides in presentation
        For a = 1 To ActivePresentation.Slides.Count
        
        Debug.Print "**********Slide #" & a & "**********"
                
           'Loop through all comments on a slide
           For i = 1 To ActivePresentation.Slides(a).Comments.Count
                With ActivePresentation.Slides(a).Comments(i)
                Debug.Print .Author & " " & .DateTime
               
                Debug.Print vbTab & .Text
              
                End With
           Next
        Next
         
      MsgBox "To see the results, open the " _
            & "Immediate Window in the Visual Basic Editor." _
            , vbInformation, "Macro Completed"
         
End Sub

REFERENCES

For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

212536 How to run sample code from Knowledge Base articles

Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:12/15/2005
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