Application object (PowerPoint)

Represents the entire Microsoft PowerPoint application.

Remarks

The Application object contains:

• Application-wide settings and options (the name of the active printer, for example).

• Properties that return top-level objects, such as ActivePresentation, and Windows.

When you are writing code that will run from PowerPoint, you can use the following properties of the Application object without the object qualifier: ActivePresentation, ActiveWindow, AddIns, Presentations, SlideShowWindows, Windows.

For example, instead of writing Application.ActiveWindow.Height = 200, you can write ActiveWindow.Height = 200.

Example

Use the Application property to return the Application object. The following example returns the path to the program file.

Dim MyPath As String

MyPath = Application.Path

The following example creates a PowerPoint Application object in another application, starts PowerPoint (if it is not already running), and opens an existing presentation named "Ex_a2a.ppt".

Set ppt = New PowerPoint.Application

ppt.Visible = True

ppt.Presentations.Open "c:\My Documents\ex_a2a.ppt"

Events

Methods

Properties

See also

PowerPoint Object Model Reference

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