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Problem

You want to add a button to a slide or slides that will let anyone viewing the presentation print the current slide to the default printer.

Solution

Say "Thanks, Dennis, for asking the question that led to this" and read on:

• Add the macro below to your presentation
• Create a button on one of your slides
• Rightclick and give it an Action Setting of Run Macro: PrintMe
• Start the slide show and click the button

You can copy the button to any other slide in your presentation or to the Slide and/or Title master if you want it to appear on every slide in the presentation. The one macro is all you need.

Sub PrintMe()

    Dim lCurrentSlide as Long

    ' Get the SlideID of the slide currently in view
    lCurrentSlide = SlideShowWindows(1).View.Slide.SlideIndex

    ' Set up print options
    With ActivePresentation.PrintOptions

        ' Print a range that includes only the current slide
        .RangeType = ppPrintSlideRange
        With .Ranges
            .ClearAll
            .Add Start:=lCurrentSlide, End:=lCurrentSlide
        End With

        .NumberOfCopies = 1

         ' This prints notes pages;  change it to e.g. ppPrintOutputSlides to print slides
         ' To see the other types delete everything from the = sign to the end of the line below
         ' Then type = at the end of the line;  VBA's Intellisense feature will show you the available options
        .OutputType = ppPrintOutputNotesPages

        .PrintHiddenSlides = msoTrue

         ' Likewise, change this if you want color or pure b/w
        .PrintColorType = ppPrintBlackAndWhite

        .FitToPage = msoFalse
        .FrameSlides = msoFalse

    End With

    ' and PRINT
    ActivePresentation.PrintOut

End Sub

See How do I use VBA code in PowerPoint? to learn how to use this example code.

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