I need some automation help and should have posted here long ago:

What I'm looking for is a macro that will find all the abbreviations (abbreviation, acronym, initialism) used in a PPT file, and create a list of those abbreviations and the slide numbers where they occur.

For smaller PPT files, it's simple enough to do that with my own eyeballs. But with larger files (largest contain 300 slides or more), hunting down abbreviations is a nightmare.

In Word, of course, finding abbreviations is painless using the 'wildcards' feature of Find/Replace. But, of course, that feature isn't available in PowerPoint.

So I've Googled... and I can't seem to find anything. I've been all over the PPTFAQ site: nothing. Does anyone have any advice or insight?