Is it possible to use VBA to hide/show a text box on a Custom Layout in a PowerPoint 2010?

Question

Is it possible to use VBA to hide/show a text box on a Custom Layout in a PowerPoint 2010? I would like to hide/show a specific text box that is on the custom layout of each slide at the click of a button and am not sure of the best way to go about doing that.

Any help, much appreciated.

Answer 1

Suppose you have a shape named Rectangle 6 on the third layout of the first slide master.

Sub Example()
Dim oSh As Shape

' Get a reference to the shape
Set oSh = ActivePresentation.Designs(1).SlideMaster.CustomLayouts(3).Shapes("Rectangle 6")

' Set its visible property to false
oSh.Visible = False

End Sub