Question

I have a custom plugin that was made for powerpoint and has a functionality to export the current slide as HTML5. It doesn’t support exporting the entire PPT so basically I would have to go slide by slide and export.

My question is, can I write something in VB that can execute a menu command, finish, next slide, execute menu command etc?

I don’t even know if VB would be the correct language to use. I’ve never written anything in it.

Answer 1

VBA might be simpler since it’s built into PowerPoint.

If you know the name of the command bar and the control on the command bar that you want to launch:

Sub LaunchTheCommand()
    Dim oCmdbar As CommandBar
    Set oCmdbar = Application.CommandBars("CommandBarName")
    oCmdbar.Controls("ControlName").Execute
End Sub

View | Toolbars will show you the names of your toolbars.

This could help you work out the right name for the individual controls:

Sub ShowTheControlNames()
    Dim oCmdbar As CommandBar
    Dim oCtl As CommandBarControl
    ' for example, let's look at the Standard toolbar:
    Set oCmdbar = Application.CommandBars("Standard")
    For Each oCtl In oCmdbar.Controls
        Debug.Print oCtl.Caption
    Next
End Sub

Note that your code won’t work on non-English versions of PowerPoint … the menu names are different.