PPT97: Macro Recorder Doesn't Record Find or Replace Commands
Article ID: 161663
Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q161663
SYMPTOMS
If you click either Find or Replace on the Edit menu while recording a
macro, your finished macro does not include any code to find or replace
text. For example, if you start Macro Recorder, click on the title of a
slide, and then use the Replace command to replace the word Cat with the
word Dog, the resulting macro selects only the title of your slide.
CAUSE
The PowerPoint Macro Recorder does not record mouse clicks or keyboard commands. Instead, it translates your actions into the nearest Visual
Basic for Applications equivalent. While the PowerPoint object model does
include Find and Replace methods, they do not work the same way as the Find and Replace commands on the Edit menu.
RESOLUTION
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.
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