protect position of text-fields?

[prepressmonkey]

hello,

we make at the moment a new powerpoint draft and a wish from colleague would
be to protect the position of the headline text-field and of the normal
text-field, because other colleagues sometimes accidentally move the
textfields.

is this possible? I can't find it in powerpoint.

thanks!

regards,


ferdinand

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

You can use the master slide to determine the positioning of the text boxes
for new slides as they are added. Once a text box exists in normal view it
can be moved at will. There's no method to lock them into place.

You could write a little macro that moves a selected object to a specified
position on the screen. If you think that would be handy please post back.

Thanks.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVp

hello,

we make at the moment a new powerpoint draft and a wish from colleague would
be to protect the position of the headline text-field and of the normal
text-field, because other colleagues sometimes accidentally move the
textfields.

is this possible? I can't find it in powerpoint.

thanks!

regards,


ferdinand

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
MVP info

 

[prepressmonkey]

hi jim,

if you have such script, it would be cool if you can share it - thanks!

regards,


ferdinand

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

hi jim,

if you have such script, it would be cool if you can share it - thanks!

You're right. It WOULD be useful. So I've just written a fairly useful version:

Resetting positions of shapes
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00860.htm

This only works on slides, not on masters, notes pages or other stuff, but it
should get you going.

regards,

ferdinand

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[Jim Gordon MVP]

Steve is just great! Thanks for the sample.

Ferdinand, at the bottom of Steve's article with code samples is a link
How do I use VBA code in PowerPoint?

To get to the visual basic editor on the Mac use View > Toolbars Visual
basic then click the Visual Basic Editor button on that (very small)
toolbar. Then I think everything Steve says is the same.

To switch back to the presentation click the View Microsoft PowerPoint
button on the VB Editor's toolbar (it's the leftmost button).

To run the Macros click the Run button on the Visual Basic toolbar.

-Jim

Prepressmonkey
wrote:

hi jim,

if you have such script, it would be cool if you can share it - thanks!

You're right. It WOULD be useful. So I've just written a fairly useful
version:

Resetting positions of shapes
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00860.htm

This only works on slides, not on masters, notes pages or other stuff, but it
should get you going.

regards,

ferdinand

Hi,

You can use the master slide to determine the positioning of the text boxes
for new slides as they are added. Once a text box exists in normal view it
can be moved at will. There's no method to lock them into place.

You could write a little macro that moves a selected object to a specified
position on the screen. If you think that would be handy please post back.

Thanks.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVp


Quoting from "prepressmonkey" <[email protected]>, in
article (e-mail address removed), on [DATE:

hello,

we make at the moment a new powerpoint draft and a wish from colleague
would
be to protect the position of the headline text-field and of the normal
text-field, because other colleagues sometimes accidentally move the
textfields.

is this possible? I can't find it in powerpoint.

thanks!

regards,


ferdinand

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
MVP info

================================================
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
MVP info

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Steve is just great!

Ferdinand, at the bottom of Steve's article with code samples is a link
How do I use VBA code in PowerPoint?

To get to the visual basic editor on the Mac use View > Toolbars Visual
basic then click the Visual Basic Editor button on that (very small)
toolbar. Then I think everything Steve says is the same.

Thanks for the MacInstrux, sir. Have added them to that FAQ page.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Thanks for the MacInstrux, sir. Have added them to that FAQ page.

U R most welcome. However, today I am awake and can amplify on those
FAQ00033 instructions a lot more.

Step 2 can be skipped entirely on a Mac.

It is possible to use PowerPoint > Preferences > General and uncheck "enable
macro virus protection" to turn off the "Enable" macros button when a file
containing macros is opened. I would never do that, personally.

Under housekeeping, on the Mac the Application you would most likely use is
called TextEdit instead of NotePad.

When you paste code into a module and it turns red then the most likely
cause is extra characters (invisible) from the web browser or newsgroup
reading program. Delete everything between line breaks and get rid of spaces
before indented items to correct this problem.

-Jim

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Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
MVP info

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

He's even better awake than when he's snoozin'.
Updates applied accordingly:

How do I use VBA code in PowerPoint?
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00033.htm


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