Re: Loading Add-ins

From: Roderick O'Regan (roregan_at_businesstraining.co.uk.NOSPAM)
Date: 03/11/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:14:52 -0000

S-u-s-h-i? Is there an emoticon for "yukkk!"? Sorry, I know it's dear to
your heart (and stomach...) but I'm not entirely partial to it myself. Hope
you enjoyed it. But to business and a requested explanation...

A client of mine wants me to create a PP template which will be distributed
to about 300 users scattered about the country. They will also download a
whole bunch of designer backgrounds that they will place on different slides
and controlled by macros to change them. Client says that users are not very
PP-literate and wants them "spoonfed".

I therefore want to create a menu of macros which will change these plus a
few other macros for changing bullet shapes and their colours as well as
other selected object fills. Looking at the sites found I think I can create
these using the example code.

The add-in will also be downloaded with all of the above backgrounds as well
as the template. The cunning plan was then something along the lines that
when the user called the template or any presentations based upon it (as in
Word) the add-in would load for macro work and then unload when said
documents were closed.

I believe from what you say, and what I have read, that I will have to
convince my client not to underestimate his users' intelligence and let them
manually add the add-in by using some guide *** instructions. After all, I
suppose it will only be needed to be done once as it writes to the registry
to load every time PP is run.

Thanks also to Brian and Shyam for their help.

Kind regards

Rory O'Regan

"Steve Rindsberg" <abuse@localhost.com> wrote in message
news:VA.00000316.0689344b@localhost.com...
> > Is there a way of programatically loading and Add-in when I open a
> > particular PP file or new template, please? I cannot seem to find an
answer
> > in any of the PP sites I have visited.
>
> I'm not sure what Brian had in mind, but maybe I'm just grumpy 'cause
nobody
> fed me sushi tonight.
>
> PowerPoint won't automatically load or run code as the result of opening a
PPT
> file or template on its own.
>
> In 2000 and up if you have an addin loaded to handle events, it can call
other
> code or load an addin programatically.
>
> > I don't want users going to Tools|Add-ins etc and loading it manually.
>
> An installer program can create the necessary registry entries to get an
addin
> to load w/o the user having to mess with it.
>
> Let us know what you're actually trying to accomplish here. Maybe there
are
> other possibilities.
>
>
>
> --
> Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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>