Manipulating the Text selection in Powerpoint

Question

Hi, I was just trying to do some coding on highlighting a portion of text in PowerPoint so that I could insert a hyperlink to it. I could achieve it without any difficulty in Powerpoint 2003 and to my surprise, it did not work in PowerPoint 2007... The code that I used is as follows :

((PowerPoint.Application)applicationObject).ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.Text = "PPT";
((PowerPoint.Application)applicationObject).ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.Select();
((PowerPoint.Application)applicationObject).ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.ActionSettings[Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint.PpMouseActivation.ppMouseClick].Hyperlink.Address = "http://www.google.com";
((PowerPoint.Application)applicationObject).ActiveWindow.Selection.Unselect();

Can anyone tell me what could have gone wrong in the above code?

Answer 1

You should save your ppt app like an app with macro's, if it ends on 'x' (like pptx) you cannot run macros.

So save as sth with macro support like ppsm, pptm,
(use save as)

see : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa433259.aspx