Branching Slides in PowerPoint (VBA)

Question

I am trying to create a back button but using hyperlinks it simply just takes me to the previous page and ends up in a loop... e.g. if I have slide 1 which has links to slide 3, 4 & 5 then slide 3 links to 6 & 7. If I'm currently on slide 7 and click back it successfully takes me back to slide 3 but then I want to click back and end up at slide 1 rather than back to slide 7 (hopefully I'm making some sense!).

I presume the only way for me to do this is with VBA can anyone give me some advice on best way to create a back button? (I'm using PowerPoint 2007)

Answer 1

I was struggling with a similar problem today and made a little "breadcrumb"- generator for powerpoint. There is no link feature yet, but you can implement it if you like: Github Project

Essential parts of the code

 Public Sub breadcrumbs(ByVal count As Integer, ByRef titles() As String)
    Dim cntr As Integer
    Dim content() As String
    Dim margin As Integer
    Dim width As Integer
    '----------------------------

    ' Set Titles
    content = titles
    cntr = 0
    ' Set width
    width = ((Application.ActivePresentation.PageSetup.SlideWidth - (margin * count * 2) - 20) / count) - 50

    ' Loop through all slides
    For Each sld In Application.ActivePresentation.Slides
        ' generate breadcrumb for each title
        For Each con In content
            sld.Shapes.AddShape(1, (50 + (width * cntr)), 15, width, 50).TextFrame.TextRange.Text = con
            cntr = cntr + 1
        Next con
        cntr = 0

    Next sld

End Sub