vba powerpoint select a slide by name

Question

I am trying to select a slide by name. I have added a title via the outline. below is the code that is not working. \"item Idaho not found in the slide collection\"

Answer 1

Reviving an old question, but I wanted to throw this in.

While it's possible that ActivePresentation.Slides("MySlideName").Select doesn't work, this does work for me in PPT 2010:

Dim PPTObj As PowerPoint.Application
Set PPTObj = New PowerPoint.Application
Dim PPTClinic As PowerPoint.Presentation
Set PPTClinic = PPTObj.Presentations.Open(FileName:="Your File Name Here")
PPTClinic.Slides("MySlideName").Select

This, of course, assumes that there is a slide named "MySlideName". Your code will have to deal with gracefully handling the Item MySlideName not found in the Slides collection. error (err.number = -2147188160).