Microsoft Powerpoint: time of day

• anonymous / 205 / Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:49:00 GMT / Comments (3)
• I have 3 Word art sentenes. I want one to come up on powerpoint at a certain
  time (or like from 5:00pm to 9:00pm)
  
  say its 5pm - 9pm, I want the one wordart sentence (good evening) to show,
  and in 2 morning hours (like 2am to 10am), I want it to say GoodMorning.
  (I want this during the presentation)
  
  Thanks for your time!
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• 1. This can probably be done using VBA programming code within PowerPoint.
     Keep in mind that this will NOT work using the free PowerPoint Viewer, the
     user must have PowerPoint AND have their Security level set to MEDIUM and
     "Enable macros" when asked.
     
     Interested? If so, I will try and work something up as a sample.
     --
     Bill Foley
     www.pttinc.com
     Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
     Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor
     "eric" <eric...discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
     news:5883AC7B-DFAD-4B81-9E05-5D22FE3BB814...microsoft.com...
     > I have 3 Word art sentenes. I want one to come up on powerpoint at a
     certain
     > time (or like from 5:00pm to 9:00pm)
     > say its 5pm - 9pm, I want the one wordart sentence (good evening) to show,
     > and in 2 morning hours (like 2am to 10am), I want it to say GoodMorning.
     > (I want this during the presentation)
     > Thanks for your time!

     bill | Tues, 27 May 2008 03:23:00 GMT |

  2. If you want a simple message box to appear when a button is clicked, put
     some sort of object on your slide and assign this macro to it:
     
     Sub TimeTester()
     If Hour(Time) < 12 Then
     MsgBox ("Good morning, the current time is " & Time)
     ElseIf Hour(Time) < 18 Then
     MsgBox ("Good afternoon, the current time is " & Time)
     Else
     MsgBox ("Good evening, the current time is " & Time)
     End If
     End Sub
     
     If you want different text boxes to appear or different messages to show up
     in a text box based on the above code, you will need to do much more. For
     example you could create three textboxes with the desired text on your
     slide. You will need to use VBA to assign a name to each textbox (code
     sample provided below). Then what you do is to modify the above code to
     make the desired textbox visible based on the IF statement.
     
     You could also create one textbox and assign the desired text within the IF
     portion of the code itself. That way you only have one textbox and the text
     that is displayed in it is based on the code.
     
     The name assigned to a textbox is done using the following code (provided by
     our resident PowerPoint VBA expert, Shyam - http://skp.mvps.org/):
     
     Sub NameShape()
     Dim Name$
     On Error GoTo AbortNameShape
     
     If ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.Count = 0 Then
     MsgBox "No Shapes Selected"
     Exit Sub
     End If
     Name$ = ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange(1).Name
     
     Name$ = InputBox$("Give this shape a name", "Shape Name", Name$)
     
     If Name$ <> "" Then
     ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange(1).Name = Name$
     End If
     Exit Sub
     
     AbortNameShape:
     MsgBox Err.Description
     
     End Sub
     
     A sample line of code to assign text to a textbox named "TimeOfDay" on Slide
     1 is:
     
     ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Shapes("TimeOfDay").TextFrame.TextRange.Text ="Good Morning"
     
     So, instead of using the MsgBox line of code you could replace the first one
     with the line above. Keep in mind that you would need to draw a textbox on
     your slide, run the Nameshape code above to name it, then assign the code to
     some sort of button that you click in Slide Show mode.
     
     I realize that this is quite a mouthful so if you need me to send a sample
     file, holler back.
     Bill Foley
     Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
     Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor
     www.pttinc.com
     "Bill Foley" <wfoley1eatspamanddie...txu.com> wrote in message
     news:%23jEZu%23t2FHA.3600...TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
     > This can probably be done using VBA programming code within PowerPoint.
     > Keep in mind that this will NOT work using the free PowerPoint Viewer, the
     > user must have PowerPoint AND have their Security level set to MEDIUM and
     > "Enable macros" when asked.
     > Interested? If so, I will try and work something up as a sample.
     > --
     > Bill Foley
     > www.pttinc.com
     > Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
     > Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor
     > "eric" <eric...discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
     > news:5883AC7B-DFAD-4B81-9E05-5D22FE3BB814...microsoft.com...
     >> I have 3 Word art sentenes. I want one to come up on powerpoint at a
     > certain
     >> time (or like from 5:00pm to 9:00pm)
     >> say its 5pm - 9pm, I want the one wordart sentence (good evening) to
     >> show,
     >> and in 2 morning hours (like 2am to 10am), I want it to say GoodMorning.
     >> (I want this during the presentation)
     >> Thanks for your time!
     >

     bill | Tues, 27 May 2008 03:24:00 GMT |

  3. Eric,
     You can also use the free PlanPoint addon from
     www.PresentationPoint.com to schedule your slides in time. You will
     have to duplicate your slides because planpoint works on slides only,
     not on shapes.
     
     Kurt.

     kurt | Tues, 27 May 2008 03:25:00 GMT |