View.Slide property (PowerPoint)

Returns or sets a Slide object that represents the slide that's currently displayed in the specified document window view. Read/write.

Syntax

expression. Slide

expression A variable that represents a View object.

Remarks

If the currently displayed slide is from an embedded presentation, you can use the Parent property of the Slide object returned by the Slide property to return the embedded presentation that contains the slide. (The Presentation property of the SlideShowWindow object or DocumentWindow object returns the presentation from which the window was created, not the embedded presentation.)

Example

This example places on the Clipboard a copy of the slide that's currently displayed in slide show window one.

SlideShowWindows(1).View.Slide.Copy

This example displays the name of the presentation currently running in slide show window one.

MsgBox SlideShowWindows(1).View.Slide.Parent.Name

See also

View Object

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