Copyright© 2012 Glenna R. Shaw All Rights Reserved

Dynamic PowerPoint!Dynamic PowerPoint!Using PowerPoint’s Interactivity Features to Create Games, Quizzes, Menus, Tutorials and More.

Presented by

Glenna ShawMicrosoft PowerPoint MVP

AgendaAgenda

Overview

Methods

Techniques

Demonstrations

Methods

Jumping

Branching

Nesting

Looping

Programming

Jumping ConceptJumping Concept

IF

Touched

THEN JUMP TO

Preset Destination

DestinationPowerPoint Slide

Jumping MetaphorJumping Metaphor

TechniquesTechniques

■ Hyperlinks

■ Action Settings

■ Triggers

DemonstrationDemonstration

Hyperlinks

Action Settings

Triggers

Methods

Jumping

Branching

Nesting

Looping

Programming

Branching ConceptBranching Concept

BRANCHING

One section leads to another

Each section can be run independently

Branching MetaphorBranching Metaphor

TechniquesTechniques

■ Interactive Menus

■ External Files

■ Custom Shows

■ Navigation Buttons

DemonstrationDemonstration

Interactive Menus

−External Files

−Custom Shows

Navigation

Menu

• With Action Settings and Action Buttons, you can create a menu driven slide show that can be viewed non-sequentially. This is especially helpful when creating computer based training modules.

• These menu items set action settings to jump to different slides.

Slide 1

Slide 2

Slide 3

Menu

• You can link to external presentations from a menu slide and even start at a specific slide in an external presentation. This is useful if you have multiple presentations created by different persons.

Presentation 1

Presentation 2

Presentation 3

Menu

• Create Custom Shows within a slide show when you want all your menu items to be contained within one file.

• To create a custom show, click on Slide Show, Custom Shows, New, Select the Slides you want to be in the custom show and give it a unique name. You can now link to the Custom Show from your menu slide.

• If you check the Show & Return box, you will return to the original menu after the custom show is complete.

Custom Show 1

Custom Show 2

Menu

• PowerPoint is designed to automatically advance to the next slide, but this may cause viewers to accidentally jump to the wrong slide when you're using a slide with hyperlinks (such as a menu slide).

– You can prevent this, but you must provide the navigation for the slide.– This means you need to add navigation buttons to the slide, such as NEXT, BACK, HOME,

etc.• From your menu slide, click on Slide Show, Slide Transition and uncheck the

Advance on mouse click box.• To remove the advance on mouse click for all slides in your presentation, click on

Slide Show, Set Up Show and select Browsed at Kiosk

Custom Show 1

Custom Show 2

X

Methods

Jumping

Branching

Nesting

Looping

Programming

Nesting ConceptNesting Concept

NESTING

A cluster of similar items

A set of objects of that can be stacked together

Nesting MetaphorNesting Metaphor

TechniquesTechniques

■ Diagramming

■ Nested Menus (Custom Shows)

■ A Show in a Show

DemonstrationDemonstration

Diagramming

Nested Menus

A Show in a Show

Main MenuVisual Basic

If/Then

Concepts

Branching Nesting Looping

Hyperlinks

Action Settings

Triggers

Interactive Menus

External Files

Custom Shows

Navigation

Diagramming

Menus &Custom Shows

A Show in a Show

External Shows

Custom Shows

Nested Shows

Fun Menu Animations

Menu Example 1

Menu Example 2

Menu Example 3

Menu Example 4

Menu Example 5

Menu Example 6

Quick Link to Taj’s tutorial on Interactive Menus

A Show in a Show

• Action Settings for Embedded Presentations:– Show runs the embedded slide show– Edit allows editing the embedded slide show– Open allows both of the above

A Show in a Show in a Show

Methods

Jumping

Branching

Nesting

Looping

Programming

Looping ConceptLooping Concept

DO

Repeat cycle through slides

UNTIL

The ESC key is pressed

Or a command to end show

Looping MetaphorLooping Metaphor

TechniquesTechniques

■ External Shows

■ Custom Shows

■ Nested Shows

DemonstrationDemonstration

External Shows

Custom Shows

Nested Shows

Presentation Title

Presentation Subtitle

Do NOT modify

this slide!

Change only the

titles.

Press Esc Key

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FireWorks

Presentation TitlePresentation Title

Presentation Subtitle

Change Presentation

Title and Subtitle to

your own titles on slides

where indicated. Use the exact same

titles on all fireworks

slides.

Click on the button at any time to show the fireworks.

Hit the ESC key to exit the

fireworks show.

Change Presentation

Title and Subtitle to

your own titles on slides

where indicated. Use the exact same

titles on all fireworks

slides.

Click on the button at any time to show the fireworks.

Hit the ESC key to exit the

fireworks show.

Presentation Title

Presentation Subtitle

Do NOT modify

this slide!

Change only the

titles.

Press Esc Key

Methods

Jumping

Branching

Nesting

Looping

Programming

Visual BasicVisual Basic

Programming Language

More powerful

More versatile

Create Add-ins and more

Also more risk of problems

DemonstrationDemonstration

Visual Basic EditorMenu

• PowerPoint also provides the option of programming in Visual Basic Programming Language (VB). To enter the Visual Basic Editor, click on View, Toolbars, and make sure the Visual Basic toolbar is selected (so it shows). On the Visual Basic Toolbar, click on the icon for the Visual Basic Editor.

• This presentation shows a simple macro that mimics pressing the ESC key. This macro is used to close the custom shows and return to the menu.

Custom Show 1

Custom Show 2

Copyright© 2012 Glenna R. Shaw All Rights Reserved

Dynamic PowerPoint!Dynamic PowerPoint!

Using PowerPoint’s Interactivity Features to Create Games, Quizzes, Menus, Tutorials and More.