HandoutOrder Property

Microsoft PowerPoint Visual Basic

HandoutOrder Property

       

Returns or sets the page layout order in which slides appear on printed handouts that show multiple slides on one page. Read/write PpPrintHandoutOrder.

PpPrintHandoutOrder can be one of these PpPrintHandoutOrder constants.
ppPrintHandoutHorizontalFirst Slides are ordered horizontally, with the first slide in the upper-left corner and the second slide to the right of it. If your language setting specifies a right-to-left language, the first slide is in the upper-right corner with the second slide to the left of it.
ppPrintHandoutVerticalFirst Slides are ordered vertically, with the first slide in the upper-left corner and the second slide below it. If your language setting specifies a right-to-left language, the first slide is in the upper-right corner with the second slide below it.

expression.HandoutOrder

expression   Required. An expression that returns one of the objects in the Applies To list.

Example

This example sets handouts of the active presentation to contain six slides per page, orders the slides horizontally on the handouts, and prints them.

With ActivePresentation
    .PrintOptions.OutputType = ppPrintOutputSixSlideHandouts
    .PrintOptions.HandoutOrder = ppPrintHandoutHorizontalFirst
    .PrintOut
End With