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    How to add Activex control (checkbox) to every slide in presentation?

    My team creates presentations that get sent out to your client service team who, in turn, need to select some (or all) of the slides for inclusion in their "final" presentation. Because there are over 90 slides to choose from, I'd like to make it easier on them by adding a checkbox (of some sort) to each slide, so they can just check off what they want and send it back to me for further manipulation.

    Is this possible? I've been searching and searching, but only find references to Activex controls that already exist on the slide...nothing about how to add them.

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    Maybe something like

    Sub chex()
    Dim osld As Slide
    For Each osld In ActivePresentation.Slides
    With osld.Shapes.AddOLEObject(Left:=10, Top:=10, Height:=20, Width:=100, ClassName:="Forms.checkbox.1")
    .OLEFormat.Object.Caption = "Whatever"
    End With
    Next osld
    End Sub
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    You'll probably want a macro to remove the check boxes and delete the unwanted slides
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    This would togglke visibility. Easy to modify to delete

    Sub chex()
    Dim osld As Slide
    For Each osld In ActivePresentation.Slides
    With osld.Shapes.AddOLEObject(Left:=10, Top:=10, Height:=20, Width:=100, ClassName:="Forms.CheckBox.1")
    .OLEFormat.Object.Caption = "Whatever"
    End With
    Next osld
    End Sub
    
    
    Sub toggler()
    Dim osld As Slide
    Dim oshp As Shape
    Dim L As Long
    For Each osld In ActivePresentation.Slides
    For L = osld.Shapes.Count To 1 Step -1
    Set oshp = osld.shapse(L)
    If oshp.Type = msoOLEControlObject Then
    Debug.Print oshp.OLEFormat.ProgID
    If oshp.OLEFormat.ProgID = "Forms.CheckBox.1" Then
    oshp.Visible = Not oshp.Visible
    End If
    End If
    Next L
    Next osld
    End Sub
    NOTE I have corrected the case in the original ProgID Forms.checkbox.1

    Class is not case sensitive but ProgID inFind is case sensitive and should be correct or it will not work
    Last edited by John Wilson; 05-27-2019 at 02:06 AM.
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    This sounds dumb, but how do you actually put a check mark in the boxes? Each time I hover over it, it just goes into control edit mode.

    This is exactly what I was hoping, btw Toggling is perfect.

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    You can only directly check in show mode. You could right click > properties > value = true but it would be clunky.
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    Ahhh, I see. Ok, thank you!! And thanks for your solution. I really appreciate your efforts.

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    Another approach that doesn't require any VBA would be to just make a custom slide show by checking the slides to include

    You can rearrange them and save the custom slide show


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    Or even use add Comment
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    Unfortunately, the existing process allows the intended users to simply check a box. The powers-that-be are positive that said users won't be able to handle anything that differs from that. Silly, i know.

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    What do you mean by the "Existing Process" and how does this work in PowerPoint.

    The only way to do this as far as I know is to write an AddIn that installs a "Tick/Untick the Box" button on the ribbon.

    This obviously involves some serious coding but if you can install the addin for all users is definitely possible.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ajjava View Post
    Unfortunately, the existing process allows the intended users to simply check a box. The powers-that-be are positive that said users won't be able to handle anything that differs from that. Silly, i know.
    Show them the Custom Slide Show box and let them use their checkbox-ing skills there

    If they're as habit-bound as you imply, I doubt you'd ever get them to successfully use an add-in
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