How to delete all the animations in a PowerPoint presentation using VBA

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answerspleasee asked on October 19, 2010
 Q:
 How to delete all the animations in a presentation
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how do I delete all animations i have put on for the past 200 slides.

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Shyam Pillai replied on October 19, 2010
 MVP
 A:
 Hi,

You can turn off the animations by going to Setup Slide Show and under Show Options tick the Show without animation option and click OK. Now run the show and it will display without the animations.

If you really want to delete all the animations in a single sweep then you will need to run this macro.

Sub StripAllBuilds()
 Dim I As Integer: Dim J As Integer
 Dim oActivePres As Object
 Set oActivePres = ActivePresentation
 With oActivePres
 For I = 1 To .Slides.Count
 If val(Application.Version) < 10 Then
 ' Older versions of PowerPoint 97/2000
 ' In each slide set the animation property
 ' of the Shape object to FALSE
 For J = 1 To .Slides(I).Shapes.Count
 .Slides(I).Shapes(J).AnimationSettings.Animate = msoFalse
 Next J
 Else
 ' New versions support the Timeline object
 For J = .Slides(I).TimeLine.MainSequence.Count To 1 Step -1
 .Slides(I).TimeLine.MainSequence(J).Delete
 Next J
 End If
 Next I
 End With
 Set oActivePres = Nothing
End Sub

Regards, Shyam Pillai. http://skp.mvps.org
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