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Create a macro for an ActiveX control

Applies to: Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003

On the View menu, point to Toolbars, and then click Control Toolbox.
Select the ActiveX control (ActiveX control: A control, such as a check box or button that offers options to users or runs macros or scripts that automate a task. You can write macros for the control in Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications or scripts in Microsoft Script Editor.) you want to create a macro (macro: An action or a set of actions you can use to automate tasks. Macros are recorded in the Visual Basic for Applications programming language.) for, and then in the Control Toolbox, click View Code .
In Microsoft Visual Basic Editor (Microsoft Visual Basic Editor: An environment in which you can edit macros that you've recorded and write new macros and Visual Basic for Applications programs.), write a new macro or change the existing macro.
When you finish writing the macro, on the File menu, click Close and Return to Microsoft PowerPoint.

Note For more information about writing macros, see Microsoft Visual Basic Help.

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If you're designing a form for use on a Web page rather than in Microsoft PowerPoint or a Microsoft Visual Basic (Microsoft Visual Basic: A high-level, visual-programming version of Basic. Visual Basic was developed by Microsoft for building Windows-based applications.) program, use a Web script (script: A type of computer code used to perform tasks on Web pages, such as incrementing a "number of visitors" counter each time there is a new visitor. Web scripts can be written in several script languages. Scripts do not need to be compiled to be run.) instead of a macro to automate the control.