vba powerpoint select a slide by name

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"

ActivePresentation.Slides("Idaho").Select

The slide's name and the text in the title placeholder nave nothing to do with one another.

Unless you've renamed it, the first slide in the presentation will be named "Slide1", the second "Slide2" and so on.

If you specifically need a way to locate the slide whose title text = "Idaho", you'd need to write a function to search all the slides in the presentation and return the first one it finds that meets your criteria. For example:

Sub TestMe()
    Dim oSl As Slide
    Set oSl = FindSlideByTitle("idaho")
    
    If Not oSl Is Nothing Then
        MsgBox "Found your title on slide " & CStr(oSl.SlideIndex)
    End If
    
End Sub
Function FindSlideByTitle(sTextToFind As String) As Slide
    Dim oSl As Slide
    
    For Each oSl In ActivePresentation.Slides
        If oSl.Shapes.HasTitle Then
            With oSl.Shapes.Title.TextFrame
                If .HasText Then
                    If UCase(.TextRange.Text) = UCase(sTextToFind) Then
                        Set FindSlideByTitle = oSl
                    End If
                End If
            End With
        End If
    Next
    
End Function