I don’t know if it’s a bug or a “feature”, but if you’re creating a macro-enabled presentation in PowerPoint the designer button is grayed-out.
As usual the Microsoft website is very “useful”. This is what they have to say about this issue:
If you can see the Designer button in PowerPoint but it’s grayed out, it means:
You aren’t connected to the internet, or
A single slide isn’t selected. This can be the case when multiple slides are selected in the slide thumbnail pane in Normal view, or when the focus in the thumbnail pane is between two slides. It also can happen when the focus is in the Notes pane or you are in Slide Show view rather than Normal view.
As this answer says, we can only embed video in specific StackExchange sites, so, I posted a video of the occurrence on my YouTube channel, here.