Working with the Presentation Object

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When you are working with Microsoft® PowerPoint® objects through Microsoft® Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA), you typically work with a Presentation object and the slides it contains. You use a PowerPoint template — a presentation saved with a .pot extension that contains master slides and might contain regular slides — to apply a consistent look to an entire presentation.

In This Section

  • Working with Open Presentations
    Create a reference to an open presentation by using the Application object's ActivePresentation property or by accessing a Presentation object as a member of the Presentations collection.
  • Working with Existing Presentations
    Use the Presentations collection's Open method to open a presentation saved to disk and create a reference to that presentation at the same time.
  • Creating a New Presentation
    Create a PowerPoint presentation by using the Open method of the Application object or by using the Presentations collection's Add method.
  • Formatting a Presentation
    Use a PowerPoint template to apply a consistent look to an entire presentation.
  • Running a Slide Show from a Presentation
    Use properties to specify how you want a slide show to appear and which slides to include in the show.