Working with PowerPoint Slides

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Every Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation (with the exception of some templates) is a collection of slides. Each slide can contain text or graphics and might include animation effects. The Presentation object has a Slides property that returns the Slides collection. The Slides collection is used to add new slides to or access an existing slide in a presentation. Each slide is represented in the collection by a Slide object.

In This Section

• Working with the Slides Collection
  Use the Slides collection to add new slides to a presentation or to access a specific slide within a presentation.
• Working with Slide Objects
  Understand the four ways to access a Slide object in the Slides collection.

Related Sections

• Working with Microsoft PowerPoint Objects
  Automate PowerPoint by using the Application object, from which you can open an existing Presentation object or create a new presentation.
• Understanding the PowerPoint Application Object
  Use the Application object to get started writing Microsoft® Visual Basic® for Applciations (VBA) code to work with PowerPoint.
• Working with the Presentation Object
  Use a PowerPoint template, a presentation saved with a .pot extension that contains master slides and might contain regular slides, to apply a consistent look to an entire presentation.
• Working with Shapes on Slides
  Understand how to refer to a Shape object on a slide.