Powerpoint repeated text

Question

I was given a document in which I can type a word into a box and the word is automatically written into another box on a different page. How can I create a document with that feature?

Answer 1

Those are ActiveX text boxes, which you can insert from the Developer tab. If that tab is not already visible, make it so by choosing File>Options>Customize Ribbon and checking the box beside Developer in the right-hand list of Main Tabs.

After inserting text boxes on both slides, go to the one where you want to be entering the text. Right-click on it and choose View Code. The Visual Basic Editor window will open with a macro stub called Private Sub TextBox1_Change(). Add to that macro to make it look like this:

Private Sub TextBox1_Change()    
    ActivePresentation.Slides(2).Shapes("TextBox1").OLEFormat.Object.Text = ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Shapes("TextBox1").OLEFormat.Object.Text
End Sub

Revise the slide numbers to suit your presentation.