Display the slide number and the total slides in PowerPoint 2007

 

Display the slide number and the total slides in PowerPoint 2007

One of my customers asked me a question about PowerPoint 2007. He wanted to have the slide number and the total number of the slides in his presentations (ie: 3/45). I quickly developped a VSTO 3.0 Addin and here is the code. I created a Ribbon Button to call this method. I simply put this method in the ThisAddin.cs file:

/// <summary>

/// Format the slide numbers with: number/total number

/// </summary>

public void FormatSlideNumbers()

{

int iSlides = 0;

string SlideCounterName = "Slide Number Placeholder";

try

{

// For every Slide in the Active Presentation

for ( iSlides = 1; iSlides <= this.Application.ActivePresentation.Slides.Count; iSlides++)

{

// For every Shape in the Slide

foreach (PowerPoint.Shape myShape in Application.ActivePresentation.Slides[iSlides].Shapes)

{

// Check the shape containing "Slide Number Placeholder"

if (myShape.Name.Contains(SlideCounterName))

{

string CurrentslideNumber = iSlides.ToString();

// Change the Slide's placeholder's name

myShape.TextFrame.TextRange.Text = CurrentslideNumber + @"/" + this.Application.ActivePresentation.Slides.Count.ToString();

myShape.Width = PowerPointAddInTools.Properties.Settings.Default.SlideWidth;

}

}

}

}

catch (Exception ex)

{

System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("An error has occured: " + ex.Message, "PowerPoint Tools", System.Windows.Forms.MessageBoxButtons.OK, System.Windows.Forms.MessageBoxIcon.Error);

}

Enjoy !

Published Sunday, December 07, 2008 9:32 PM by joyantas

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