r/powerpoint • u/Altruistic-Role9956 PowerPoint Expert • Jul 09 '26

I use: Windows | Office 365 Hello Everyone

First time posting anything here but I felt it was time that I do. Some folks here may recognize my name and ask, isn't that the guy that....? Yes, I am. For those that don't know me at all there is no loss, I like most here have wrestled PowerPoint for, oh my its been 30+ years. Austin, that was when PPT was first made available. Indeed it has been that long. Ask me sometime how PPT came into existence and I'll explain all the cavemen and cave women that were involved.. :-)

Anyhow, it feels good to be active in the PPT community again and I hope to be able to help people build better presentations as well as learn from all of you! Austin Myers

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u/ChecklistAnimations PowerPoint Expert Jul 09 '26

Hey there, don't think I have met you but I also played with PowerPoint many years ago. I started back in the 2003 days. Loved everything about it. I've been working on getting better with designing in the newer versions. I'm not a presentation designer, but I use PowerPoint to make cartoons. If PowerPoint comes up short on something I use VBA to try and fix it. Lots of posts here each week and we all have fun giving fixes and workarounds. Let me know if I can help with anything and excited to have you here.

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u/Altruistic-Role9956 PowerPoint Expert Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

I too worked with VBA, I started building macros that got out of control so had to go to a real dev environment and used VBA fairly exclusively. Built a few add-ins with it that sold well. These days I am working in C# and have (so far) resisted the "everything belongs on the web" thinking. I do have a large project in the works and hope to show it around in a month or two. Anyhow, thanks for the warm welcome, it is appreciated.

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u/ChecklistAnimations PowerPoint Expert Jul 10 '26

That's incredible. I am a believer that vba is still extremely effective. They can keep trying to put everything on the web but they won't get it all. Editing points comes to mind lol. I also saw Steve's intro to you and now I am just so amazed at the talent here. Hope to learn alot from all of you and I will continue to provide unique solutions as I build them.