VBA Extracting Files Using SaveCopyAS

[mcambrose]

I have a large presentation that I want to break up into lots of small
presentations. I have code which determines where to divide the presentation.
I tried the suggestion to make a copy of the presentation using (savecopyas)
and then deleting all but the slides wanted. This works well except the
presentation is 268 slides and when saved to PPTx it takes about 3 minutes.
It only takes about 5 seconds to load the file. I wondered if I just wanted
to open the file, then delete all the unneeded slides and do a saveas. The
only problem I have is that when I reopen the original file, it will want to
start parsing at the beginning unless I have a counter variable that keeps
us with how many new files have been created. Could I do this with public
variable? any other good suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.

 

[mcambrose]

Yes I should have given the version. I was using 2007 and I guess I must have
been saving to ppt files, but I did not specify the file type. I found it was
very quick to open the original file, (much quicker than saving) so i just
deleted all the slides i didn't need from the original file and then saved
with a different name and closed it. Since it was a much smaller file than
original, it saved quickly. I thenjust opend the original file again and
deleted all but the files I needed.