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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / May 2007Random slides with Q&As
Been working on making a pre-movie slideshow for an outdoor movie event. I've used the random plugin from here last year with very good success. http://www.tushar-mehta.com/ However, this year, I'd like to take the pre-show entertainment a bit more appealing to our customers by having quiz questions & answers show at random. I'm not a VB programmer so I'm not sure how to do this. I'll have static slides I want to show at random, but when a quiz question screen shows, I'd like the answer slide to show immediately after question, but still have things randomly show. IE: Random choose and show these: Slide1 (advertisement) Slide3 (advertisement) Slide5-6 (Q&A) Slide2 (advertisement) Slide8-9 (Q&A) Slide4 (advertisement) etc.etc. Any help on doing this would be greatly appreciated. Well, this going to take some work with VBA. I have an example on my site that randomly selects question slides, but it doesn't seem to be exactly what you want so you would probably have to modify the VBA. Check out examples 8-16 and 8-17 on my site: http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ --David  SignatureDavid M. Marcovitz Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology Loyola College in Maryland Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ > Been working on making a pre-movie slideshow for an outdoor movie > event. I've used the random plugin from here last year with very good [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Thanks for the info. One more question that might make this easier for me? Is there a way to have an excel file simply to order the slides? I could then easily create a random list (manually listing the order) to play from? > Well, this going to take some work with VBA. I have an example on my site > that randomly selects question slides, but it doesn't seem to be exactly [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > > > I don't think you can do that without VBA. Once your doing VBA, you might as well keep it all contained to PowerPoint. In fact, I think you might need VBA to do it in Excel because you aren't looking to randomize the order of every slide, you have to pick and choose. If you were randomizing everything, then Tushar's add-in would be what you want. --David SignatureDavid M. Marcovitz Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology Loyola College in Maryland Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ > Thanks for the info. One more question that might make this easier > for me? [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] >> > >> > I'm not a VBA programmer at all. Is there any examples for linking slide order from excel into powerpoint......? > I don't think you can do that without VBA. Once your doing VBA, you might > as well keep it all contained to PowerPoint. In fact, I think you might [quoted text clipped - 43 lines] > >> > > >> > As I said, I think that either way you slice it, you are going to need VBA. Here is some information on VBA interacting between PPT and Excel: Exel-lent Excel Sites http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00562.htm --David SignatureDavid M. Marcovitz Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology Loyola College in Maryland Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ > I'm not a VBA programmer at all. Is there any examples for linking > slide order from excel into powerpoint......? [quoted text clipped - 46 lines] >> >> > >> >> > Hi Brady, I'm not at all a PowerPoint specialist nor a VBA programmer. But what if you made you Qestion and Answer on the same slide ? You could draw a rectangle to cover the entire Question slide and add the information relative to the Answer on this rectangle, group all of the objects retalitive to the Answer and then animate it so that it appears after five seconds or so. This way, you could continue to use the same method you used to for the randomization. Christine./ > Been working on making a pre-movie slideshow for an outdoor movie event. > I've used the random plugin from here last year with very good success. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Any help on doing this would be greatly appreciated. |
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