adding sound with vba for blind friend

Hi all:

A friend of mine is developing his career as a public speaker (read: he has
no money). I'm developing code that will read the slide number every time he
moves to a new slide.

I'm a VBA wiz with Access, yet completely lost with PPT. I found some code
that will display a message box with each slide change (Sub Auto_NextSlide).
I need to play a .wav, .mp3, etc., instead. Can anyone tell me the command?

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Jay

Jay,
Two methods to play sound files (*.WAV) files synchronously/asynchronously

http://skp.mvps.org/ppt00040.htm#3

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Regards,
Shyam Pillai

Toolbox: http://skp.mvps.org/toolbox


"Jay Edgar" wrote in message
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Hi all:

A friend of mine is developing his career as a public speaker (read: he
has no money). I'm developing code that will read the slide number every
time he moves to a new slide.

I'm a VBA wiz with Access, yet completely lost with PPT. I found some code
that will display a message box with each slide change (Sub
Auto_NextSlide). I need to play a .wav, .mp3, etc., instead. Can anyone
tell me the command?

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Jay

Thank you, Shyam. I looked through your site last night, and appreciate your
help. I will give this a shot tonight or tomorrow.

Regards,

Jay

"Shyam Pillai" wrote in message
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Jay,
Two methods to play sound files (*.WAV) files synchronously/asynchronously

http://skp.mvps.org/ppt00040.htm#3

--
Regards,
Shyam Pillai

Toolbox: http://skp.mvps.org/toolbox

In article , Jay Edgar wrote:
Hi all:

A friend of mine is developing his career as a public speaker (read: he has
no money). I'm developing code that will read the slide number every time he
moves to a new slide.

I'm a VBA wiz with Access, yet completely lost with PPT. I found some code
that will display a message box with each slide change (Sub Auto_NextSlide).
I need to play a .wav, .mp3, etc., instead. Can anyone tell me the command?

In addition to Shyam's suggestion, you can go the non-vba route and apply a
sound to each slide's Transition (Slide Show, Transition from the main menu)

These are always embedded, so there are no linking issues; the only hitch is
that they must be WAVs - can't use MP3s.

You could create a series of wavs like:

1.wav that contains the recorded word "one" and so on.
Then in one sweep through the program, you could set the transition sound for
each slide to cstr(SlideIndex) & ".WAV"



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Shyam:

I'm a bit flummoxed, so will ask your help once again.

I used the code on the page to which you referred me. I discovered it didn't
work with mp3s (just thought I'd try), and got it to work for a wav file. I
placed the code to play the wav in the next slide event. It worked great.

Next I added a for loop like:

for i = 1 to Index
[code to play the sound]
next i

thinking it would play the tone as many times as the number of the slide. It
didn't work. When I set to code back to what worked, it no longer worked. I
then deleted both the PPT and PPA, and brought out the original versions
from the zip file. No go. I removed and readded the add-in. No go. I
restarted my computer. No go. The security is low security and both 'trust'
checkboxes are turned on. Any clue how I fix it?

Thank you for your help.

Regards,

Jay

P.S. Computers drive me nuts sometimes. Good thing I always win in the
end...

I did some more experimentation. I put debug.print statements in each of the
events (starting, closing, opening, etc.).

None of the events is kicked off when I open or run a presentation.

In the code window, if I have the cursor in any event and hit F5, it runs
the event (displays the message box and does the debug.print) EXCEPT the
next slide event. when I have the cursor in this event and hit F5, it brings
up a dialog box with all events and asks which one I want to run. The next
slide event is not listed, as though the code can't see it. huh? The modules
debug just fine.

I have never seen anything like this in all my years of Access VBA work. The
only thing I can think is to dump Office and reload, which I'd REALLY rather
not do. I will also try this on my computer at work.

Again, any help is appreciated.

Regards,

Jay

Jay,
Events work differently in PPT than they do in Access or Excel. See
this article for a much more detailed explanation of how to get events
working.

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00004.htm

Brian Reilly, PowerPoint MVP

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 00:12:29 -0600, "Jay Edgar"
wrote:

I did some more experimentation. I put debug.print statements in each of the
events (starting, closing, opening, etc.).

None of the events is kicked off when I open or run a presentation.

In the code window, if I have the cursor in any event and hit F5, it runs
the event (displays the message box and does the debug.print) EXCEPT the
next slide event. when I have the cursor in this event and hit F5, it brings
up a dialog box with all events and asks which one I want to run. The next
slide event is not listed, as though the code can't see it. huh? The modules
debug just fine.

I have never seen anything like this in all my years of Access VBA work. The
only thing I can think is to dump Office and reload, which I'd REALLY rather
not do. I will also try this on my computer at work.

Again, any help is appreciated.

Regards,

Jay