Setting the focus to a text box on a slide

[jejones0231]

Hi,

I am making a PowerPoint interactive presentation in which the user will enter text into a textbox. I would like to have the insertion point active in the textbox when the slide loads. I see VBA for PowerPoint doesn't provide any way to set focus on a particular VBA control. I have tried a number of things in which none have worked. The slide is number 7 and the text box name is TxtMessage. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

[John Wilson]

I don't believe this is possible. There are several "examples" on line mainly based on old code by Chirag Dahl but none work for me.

[John Wilson]

Actually it IS possible.

See Here

The code is virtually all from Shyam Pillai's site and the copyright is his.

[jejones0231]

Thank you, John, for the time you have taken to find a solution to my problem. I'm afraid Shyam Pillai's code does not work in the version of PowerPoint I am currently running (MS Office Pro 2019). :(

Julie

[John Wilson]

You're right. I just checked in 2016 where it works perfectly but it doesn't in 2019

John

[John Wilson]

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Hopefully this fixes the problem in 2019