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I am trying to record macro in 2013 but after i turn off powerpoint and start it again macro disappears.

I am trying to make some kind of powerpoint template and add it to every new presentation automatically.

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    As far as I am concern, Powerpoint allows to run Macro but, does not allow to record a Macro. But try once as our friend @Siddharth Sawjiani is suggesting. Commented Feb 11, 2014 at 9:57
  • As I know you can not write macro directly on slides because PPT does not allow to write macro directly on slides. Commented Feb 11, 2014 at 10:04
  • Somehow the question title does not fit to the description text: you want to record a macro or make a macro available for all files? In case 2 you can deploy a macro by creating a PowerPoint Add-In. Commented Sep 21, 2016 at 6:03

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Not available any more since 2010 version. Write your own vba script instead.

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I'm just putting it here: you can't record macros any more :(

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Create-a-macro-in-PowerPoint-5b07aff6-4dc9-462f-8fc9-66b4c5344e7e?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US&fromAR=1

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Are you saving in a macro-enabled format? If not, macros/modules will disappear when you close the presentation.

To save in a macro-enabled format ...

  1. Click on the "Files" tab
  2. Select "Save As"
  3. Choose a location
  4. In the dialog box that opens, click on the "Save as type" drop-down menu
  5. Select "PowerPoint Macro-Enabled Presentation (.pptm)" or "PowerPoint Macro-Enabled Template (.potm)"

There's no way (that I know of) to automatically add the macros/modules directly INTO new presentations, what you need to do is create a new PowerPoint template and save the macros in it (using the *.potm file format above).

I don't think there's a "personal presentation" in PowerPoint like there is in excel, so you'll have to make sure the template is open/loaded for the macros to be available to other presentations. You can set a template as the default one for PowerPoint (https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Load-and-apply-a-personal-template-71262c90-1447-4109-90f3-eb84f9d06c98), but this won't work if you work with multiple different templates. The other option is to have the user manually open the template every time they open PowerPoint.

Cheers

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1) Open the file where the macro is saved.

2) Go to File -> Options -> Customize Toolbar

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3) Under Choose commands from, select Macros

4) Add the Macro under a new group

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It should appear on the Home ribbon every time you open PowerPoint

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The file in which the macro is originally saved, should be open in the background
The question was 'How to record macro in powerpoint 2013' and the answer does not solve this issue.
The question was 'How to record macro in powerpoint 2013' and the answer does not solve this issue.
I'm not convinced this is off-track... the second part of the OP's question is answered by this, and the OP accepted this
hmmmm .... but it doesn't seem to work... there is indeed an item in the ribbon, but the macro is missing if I open a new file....

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