Powerful PowerPoint for Educators: Using Visual Basic for Applications to Make PowerPoint Interactive

Saving As a PowerPoint Show
Once you have created a presentation for others to use, you do not necessar-
ily want them to edit the presentation or even look at it in Edit or Normal View.
You might want to save your presentation as a PowerPoint Show. If you dou -
ble-click on a nor mal PowerPoint file, it will open in Edit or Nor mal View, where
you can scroll through all the slides and edit them. If you dou ble-click on a
PowerPoint Show, it will open in Slide Show View. In ad dition, when you exit the
show (by get ting to the end of the show, hitting the Es cape key on the key board, or
clicking on a but ton tied to the “End Show” ac tion), a PowerPoint Show will quit
out of PowerPoint al together and not return to Edit or Normal View.
To save a presentation as a PowerPoint Show, choose “Save As . . . ” from
the File menu and pay at tention to the “Save as type.” If you choose “PowerPoint
Show,” it will create a .pps file (see Fig 
ure 2.14). If you want to edit a
PowerPoint Show, open the show from within PowerPoint, that is, start
PowerPoint and choose “Open” from the File menu to open it.
30 Tra di tional Mul ti me dia Fea tures of PowerPoint

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Figure 2.14. Sav ing a File As a PowerPoint Show
Con clu sion
Now you have a basic un derstanding of the tra ditional in teractive and mul -
timedia features of PowerPoint. You are no lon ger confined to creating lin ear
presentations that simply go from one slide to the next to the next. You have the
full power of buttons and hyperlinks to allow for any of the de signs de scribed in
Chapter 1 and, with Kiosk mode, you have com plete con trol over where the user
goes within your presentation. Now that you have con quered the traditional in -
teractive multimedia features of PowerPoint, you are ready for the next chapter,
which will in troduce you to the advanced scripting features available to you in
PowerPoint.
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