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PowerPoint: Launching Other Applications with Command Line Switches

Posted Friday, January 28, 2005 1:49 PM by Andrew May
Here's something I meant to mention a while back: did you know that when you set a shape's action setting to launch a program, you can pass command line switches to that program? This is something I stumbled across, and there doesn't seem to be any mention Read More...
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PowerPoint: Using Tags to Store Custom Data

Posted Tuesday, December 07, 2004 9:44 AM by Andrew May
So, after blogging several times about the Tags functionality in Publisher, I finally took a look in the PowerPoint object model, and guess what I found? However, the tags functionality is implemented a little differently in PowerPoint than in Publisher, Read More...
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Animating Shapes in PowerPoint 2000 and 97 (Part 4 of 4)

Posted Tuesday, June 22, 2004 11:53 AM by Andrew May
(Previous entries in this series: part one , part two , and part three .) Creating Animation Effects for Media and OLE Objects For audio and video files inserted as media objects, not only can you set the shape’s animation effect, as with other Read More...
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Animating Shapes in PowerPoint 2000 and 97 (Part 3 of 4)

Posted Monday, June 21, 2004 10:28 AM by Andrew May
Today, we talking about build effects. If you’re just joining us, you can find the first two parts of this series here and here . Creating Build Animation Effects for Text and Charts As mentioned earlier, you can create a special type of animation Read More...
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Animating Shapes in PowerPoint 2000 and 97 (Part 2 of 4)

Posted Friday, June 18, 2004 11:06 AM by Andrew May
So yesterday we started talking about how to animate shapes if you’re programming for PowerPoint 97 or 2000. Today we continue by discussing how to trigger your animation effects, and control the order in which they occur. We’ll also touch Read More...
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Animating Shapes in PowerPoint 2000 and 97 (Part 1)

Posted Thursday, June 17, 2004 3:16 PM by Andrew May
So, while I was out of town, my first article dealing with PowerPoint animation made its debut: Comparing Ways to Control Animation in PowerPoint 2002 and 2003 As I’ve mentioned in previous blog entries, there are actually two ways to programmatically Read More...
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Playing Invisible Sound Clips Revisited

Posted Tuesday, June 01, 2004 2:56 PM by Andrew May
So, it turns out there’s still more to report on how to programmatically control your media objects in PowerPoint. And it’s good news, so read on. I originally wrote about how to have a sound clip play automatically when a slide is loaded Read More...
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Assigning Build Levels to Text

Posted Friday, April 02, 2004 1:07 PM by Andrew May
So, as I may have mentioned, I’m currently writing a few articles dealing with PowerPoint animations. One of the interesting concepts here is that of the build , in which the sub-objects of a shape enter the slide, either individually or in subsets, Read More...
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Playing Sound Clips Without Seeing the Icon

Posted Friday, March 05, 2004 11:16 AM by Andrew May
So here it is, my first official blog entry dealing with programming PowerPoint presentations. It’s a modest tip, but then, I’m still learning my way around the PowerPoint object model. When you insert a sound clip into a PowerPoint presentation, Read More...
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