Re: programmatically insert lots of text into a power point presentation.

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From: Bill Dilworth (vestprog2_at_yahoo.org)
Date: 06/25/04 

Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:19:50 -0400

Well ....

Do you really need to have the program calculate the actual size of the
output, or could you instead tell it to span to the next slide after x
number of pre-formatted lines? If you are importing the text into a known
slide format, then you only need to know that beyond a certain point, you
will need to continue on the next slide.

Are you using this in a presentation? or are you using this to publish
hardcopies? If you are doing this for a presentation, I would strongly urge
you to reconsider placing large amounts of text on the screen. Either you
will end up reading it to the audience (a major pain point for anyone who
has to endure this) or run the risk of them not reading it on their own or
worse, having people ignore your speaking in favor of reading the slide.
Large amounts of text usually do best when added to a handout instead of
displayed on the screen. Can you summarize the major key points instead?

If you are using this for publishing to a paper printout, then MS Word does
this much better then PowerPoint. If this is for a web page, perhaps a
program designed for that purpose, like FrontPage, may be better.

Post back if you still need the macro to break the over-sized textboxes onto
multiple slides based on the number of lines in the textbox. 

-- 
Bill Dilworth, Microsoft PPT MVP
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"Scott Jacobsen" <scott.jacobsen@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:c33ed1fb.0406241416.3aa46d19@posting.google.com...
> I have a situation where I would like to write VB code to insert an
> arbitrary amount of text into a power point presentation. The amount
> of text will change, so I don't know how many pages it will need to
> span. Is there a way to tell PowerPoint to break it up over multiple
> pages? If not, does anyone have any suggestions on how to
> programmatically calculate how many lines per page I'll need given a
> specific font?
> -- 
> TIA
> Scott

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