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

Ex er cises to Try
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If you completed the “Exercise to Try” in Chapter 4, edit your
pre sen ta tion to change the
RightAnswer
and
WrongAnswer
scripts to in clude the student’s name. Be sure to add a but ton on
the first slide, to ask for the stu dent’s name (us ing the 
YourName
procedure in this chapter).
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Add an other slide to your quiz with a short-answer question. Put
a single but ton on the slide that pops up the question. Use a dif-
ferent question than the one in this chap ter. Don’t worry if you
can’t fig ure this out. Chapter 7 includes de tailed in structions on
how to do this.
Ex er cises to Try 61

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6
A Scripting Bag of Tricks
In tro duc tion
In Chapter 5 you began to expand your single trick (the
MsgBox
) into a
small bag of tricks. On the way you learned some important lessons about vari-
ables, loops, and 
If
statements. With this, you have the power to do some in ter-
esting things to your PowerPoint pro 
jects. You can create an in 
teractive
multimedia ex travaganza as long as you only want it to be a lit tle in teractive. In
this chapter, you’ll expand your bag of tricks to in clude sev eral in teractive fea-
tures in cluding nav igation (i.e., moving around from slide to slide); hid ing and
showing PowerPoint ob jects; and chang ing text, font, size, and style in ob jects.
You’ll fin ish off the chapter with an example that ties some of the tricks to -
gether: You’ll cre ate a sim ple mystery with a clue sheet on which us ers can keep
track of clues.
Vo cab u lary
• Com ment
• Place holder
• Con stant
• Prop erty
• Ini tial ize
• RGB
• Nav i ga tion
• TextRange
•