Controlling ActiveX textboxes

[Blueskies]

Hi,
I'm using Activex textboxes in the SHOW mode to write text on the slides. I have a menu on Slide 1 which lists the slides which I can hyperlink to. Each the destination slide has a textbox where the title of the section can go. I can change the text (in the SHOW mode) on the menu slide easily. All I want to do is to automatically make the title textbox on the destination slide automatically have the same text.

e.g. textbox1.text (on slide6 for example)=textbox1.text (on the menu slide)

Sounds simple (and probably is!) but I just can't make it happen. Any help welcomed. Thanks.

[John Wilson]

There are two ways to do this. ActivX TextBoxes live in a slide container. Confusingly the name of the container has nothing to do with the slide number.

If you right click > View Code you will see the container name here. Despite being Slid18 it is actually on Slide 1.

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You can then say Slidex.TextBox1.Text=Slidey.TextBox1.Text

OR You can Say

ActPresentation.Slides(1).Shapes("TextBox1").OLEFormat.Object.Text=ActPresentation.Slides(6).Shapes("TextBox1").OLEFormat.Object.Text

[Blueskies]

Thanks John. Have tried both your suggestions but something isn't quite right as it keeps insisting that the source textbox is not in the Shapes collection.

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Quite wacky as the textbox is there on the slide! Any thoughts. Thanks

[John Wilson]

Are you sure it is not named TextBox13

[Blueskies]

Brilliant John! I overlooked that the names were case sensitive. Thanks so much for your help.