Application Interface
Represents the entire Microsoft Office PowerPoint application.
Namespace: Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint
Assembly: Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint (in Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint.dll)
Syntax
'Declaration
<GuidAttribute("91493442-5A91-11CF-8700-00AA0060263B")> _
Public Interface Application _
Inherits _Application, EApplication_Event
'Usage
Dim instance As Application
[GuidAttribute("91493442-5A91-11CF-8700-00AA0060263B")]
public interface Application : _Application,
EApplication_Event
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.
Examples
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"