Run Macro in non-presentation mode

[RaSHA]

Hello all,
I am a VBA PPT newbee and try to create a command box which opens the find function when clicked.
I wrote the code and everything works fine in the slide show/ presentation mode but unfortunately not in the normal/ non-presentation mode. Any idea how to solve this?

Thanks!

[John Wilson]

Command buttons etc ONLY work in show mode. If you want to click something (other than VIEW > Macro > Run) you will need to create a ribbon button in XML. There's a fairly simple example here.
http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/custom_UI.html

[RaSHA]

Thanks for your reply - looks fairly easy to use. But I won't be able to asign the add-in ribbon to a shape or text which would run once it is clicked, right?

[John Wilson]

No but you could make the code in the ribbon only affect the selected shape.