Checking Multiple Shapes in Powerpoint VBA

Question

thanks in advance.

I have 44 shapes on a slide (B01 - B44) that I want to check to see if they DO NOT contain the letter "A". There are other shapes that I want to exclude from the search. I would like to do this without a bunch of "and"s but I'm somewhat new to VBA.

Something like:

If ActivePresentation.Slides(2).Shapes("B##").TextFrame.TextRange.Text <> "A" Then MsgBox "No A's"

Answer 1

You can do this in a loop:

Dim i as Long, a As Long
Dim shp as Shape
Dim pres as Pres: Set  pres = ActivePresentation

For i = 1 to 44
    Set shp = pres.Slides(2).Shapes("B" & i)
    If shp.TextFrame.TextRange.Text <> "A" Then
        aCount = aCount+1
    End If
Next

If aCount = 0 Then 
    MsgBox "No A's were found"
Else:
    MsgBox aCount & " A's were found"
End If

Note: This checks to see if the text is "A", not whether it contains the letter "A".