Random slides with Q&As

[Guest]

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.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

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

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David 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/

 

[Guest]

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?

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

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

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David 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/

 

[Guest]

I'm not a VBA programmer at all. Is there any examples for linking slide
order from excel into powerpoint......?

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

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

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David 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/

 

[Guest]

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./