PowerBar

PowerBar is a Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Powerpoint-Macro for including a progress bar into a Powerpoint presentation. The macro creates a progress bar at the bottom of each slide. Additionally the progress of the presentation is printed as percentage on the progress bar.

Preparation of Powerpoint

1. Save your presentation as .pptm (Powerpointpresentation with Macros) (Otherwise the macro will not be saved).
2. Activate Developer Options

Create the Macro

1. Go into the Developer Options
2. Click on Visual Basic to open the Visual Basic Editor
3. Import the PowerBar.bas file or create a new Module Insert -> Module and paste the code of the PowerBar.bas file into into the Editor. If you copy and paste the code you have to remove the first line Attribute VB_Name = "PowerBar"
4. Save the module and exit the editor

Options

Some changes can be made in the code of the add-on:

• change the color
• skip the first pages
• change position and size of the progress bar

Run Macro

1. Go into the Developer Options
2. Click on Macros
3. Run RefreshPowerbar to remove the Powerbar (if already created) and recreate it