AutoEvents.ppa in a POT

[owp^3]

I am using Shyam Pillai's AutoEvents Add-in in Powerpoint 2003.

I want all my presentations to be uniform so I want to save a template with
the AutoEvent functionality.

So I save it as a default.pot in the appropriate location.

When I open Powerpoint or press the New button I get the correct template
but the events don't fire until after I have saved it once as a *.ppt.

Why is that?

Thanks,
owp^3

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Templates in PowerPoint are not handled the same as templates in other
Office apps. The PPA (add-in) works with PPT files, not POT files which is
why I think you are seeing this behavior.

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[owp^3]

If the presentation is instantiated as a PPT and then Saved As a POT the
add-in works until the presentation is closed.

The add-in doesn't work when creating new presentation since the initial
instantiation is from a POT, but saving it as a PPT re-instantiates it
allowing add-ins to work.

Hmmm, I'll have to think about that.

It's not a big deal I just have to remember to save new presentations
immediately in order to have the functionality available to me as I draft.

Thanks,
owp^3

 

[John Wilson]

When you apply a pot file to a new or existing presenation it doesn't apply
the macro module therefore I'm surprized it works at all. Are you using New >
from existing presentation? This will work but you could just use the
existing ppt file there's no need to use a pot file.


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