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While there are commercial tools available to control presentations remotely, this

program has two unique features that are not readily available:

• It allows more than one person to control the presentation, making it a collab­

orative tool—​thanks to the versatile nature of googledocs.

• It allows a remote person to show text on a slide that is being presented—​while

this may sound scary, it is very useful at times when a coauthor of a slide deck

wants to emphasize a point or bring in a humorous or impactful comment to

the audience. Imagine during a sales presentation you realize that you forgot to

provide the contact number of the salesperson in the deck—​you can enter it in

your googledocs and it will be shown in the current slide without interrupting

the flow of the deck!

4.6  CONCLUSION

This chapter is an experiment in automation. It is an introduction for you to explore

the possibilities of connecting one system with another and creating magic! The hope

is that this program will give you the inspiration to explore integration opportunities

according to your needs.

In this chapter you also learned:

• Working with powerpoint and VBA

• Presentation objects

• Simulating key strokes

• https (web) objects

Here are two extensions of this problem that you might find interesting to work on

your own—​how can you make little red dots appear on the current slide remotely?

And how can you completely close the presentation?