Powerpoint opening default tab

Question

Hi,

  When I opened power point 2010 it made the "home" tab the default tab in the new power point window. I want the "file" tab to be default tab. Please advise. Thanks.

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Richard

Answer 1

Pretty sure the Auto_Open runs BEFORE the ribbon is created. It can be done with an AddIn but you would need to trap the WindowActivate event in a class module. You would also need to make sure it did NOT run when later windows activate.

You can download the barebones code HERE

CAUTION THIS IS NOT A FULLY DEBUGGED PROJECT JUST A POINTER

Answer 2

The problem is that Auto_Open does NOT run when you open a new session.

Answer 3

It may be impossible to do, or merely very difficult. I was trying things out in Word, because it would have an identical syntax, but the programming environment is better. I found a couple of other indicators that the File tab is different:

• While you can customize the position of all the other tabs, the File tab is fixed.
• If you assign a normal builtin keyboard shortcut, like Ctrl+F, Word will tell you that shortcut is already assigned to NavPaneSearch. But if you try to assign Alt+F, it will report it [unassigned]. Since that is the shortcut that opens the backstage, it's clearly a different class of shortcut then a normal one.

Answer 4

Much thanks John for the instruction. It is very helpful.  I appreciate it.

I did the following test:

Open PowerPoint, hit "Alt+f" and PowerPoint directed me to File tab so I created a macro in PowerPoint with the following code:

Sub Auto_open()

  SendKeys "%(f)", True

End Sub

I compiled the code,  no error message but when I run the macro it doesn't work.

Answer 5

This isn't so easy because the File tab isn't actually a tab, it's the Backstage view. The simplest way is to write a macro that uses SendKeys: Office 2010 BackStage Tab Activate custom tab onShow() event?

Let us know if you need help implementing this.