After installing PowerPoint 2007 I noticed that the Macro Recorder tool was missing. Recently, while researching another annoyance of the PPT07 release I discovered that the Macro Recorder is still there, just hidden!
To start recording, just use the keyboard shotcuts: Alt+T -> M -> R
To stop recording: Do the same.
(Note: This shortcut is for an English version of Powerpoint 2007)
Tags: macro, office, powerpoint, ppt07, Tips, VBA
Doesn’t work!
Well, yes it does. Otherwise I wouldn’t have posted it. However, it’s entirely possible that it doesn’t work in your particular version of PowerPoint.
So, check your version – first, is your version in English? This is essential. If your version is in English and it still doesn’t work, then something else is stopping it. And unfortunately I don’t know what that is – it could be anything from some kind of “policy” disabling macros altogether to a corrupted version of PowerPoint.
Hey clsc.net, Awesome! It works on my Power Point 2007. Just wondering why MS did not enable any toolbars, just like the previous versions. Thanks
dexter,
That question is one I’ve asked myself countless times the past few years. MS software is rightfully known to be able to make a grown man cry… In the case of PowerPoint 2007, believe it or not, they simply shipped a product that was not yet finished. That’s right. Of course it does work in most cases, but as soon as you start looking at automating it with VBA headaches are sure to arise. Lots of it isn’t even documented – for one thing, the extremely important slide property by the name of “Chart” is totally left out of the object model documentation (at least it was last time I looked, yesterday).
My guess is that somewhere along the line a decision was made that PowerPoint shouldn’t support VBA. And then later on they reversed that decision – a bit too close to the shipping date. And, as the shipping date came, the product just wasn’t finished yet. So, they shipped it anyway.
Yet another reason to avoid updating MS software to new versions for at least a year or two after launch, IMHO.
PowerPoint 2007 macro recording –
Yes, omitting the macro recorder was a major blow to me.
I have a system of generating powerpoint presentations from a list of images, movies, sounds, et al and a simple text description.
I used the recorder from Office 2000 to reverse engineer enough VB code to make all this work.
Those macros also work in PP 2007, but — there are still various mysteries, and each one takes much time and experimentation to decipher.
I use Perl scripts to open a PP session, load VBA macro text, then run it.
Also — can’t figure out which version I have — they left out the “Help – about” button.
Regarding ALT-T-M-R — yes, that opens a macro record box, and the thing generates a macro function — but there’s nothing in the function! So the recorder really is absent.