Need help with macro

[redwolfe]

I'm working in PowerPoint and I want a macro to select the Insert option from the menu. The macro then opens the "Insert Symbol" dialog box and allows me to select the symbol that I want at run-time. I'm having trouble getting this to work so far. Can someone offer a coding example for accomplishing this?

 

[nochoice]

Redwolfe,

To insert a symbol into a powerpoint textbox:

MyTxtBox.InsertSymbol FontName:="Symbol", CharNumber:=226

this inserts Character 226 from the Symbol font set to a textbox called MyTxtbox.

To run this when opening the file put the code in a sub called AutoOpen. To do this insert a new Module by right clicking on the project explorer, here is some more code:

Sub AutoOpen()
MyTxtBox.InsertSymbol FontName:="Symbol", CharNumber:=226
End Sub

What this does is every time you open your powerpoint document it will insert Character 226. Unfortunately, I don't know how to open the symbol dialog. You could create one yourself - this may be a little time consuming.

You could open a form where you enter the font name and the character number when you open the document.

I don't know if this helped at all. This is the limit of my knowledge with symbols and I'm not very familiar with powerpoint macros.

Cheers,
NoChoice