Picture Quiz

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Roger Spencelayh

I need to set up a Picture quiz, and have one problem I can't see how
to handle, and one question on the best way to handle it.

I have a slide in a presentation which contains 8 pictures (lets say
that it's slide 10). When the presenter clicks a picture it jumps to
another slide which has a question on it, so picture 1 will jump to
slide 11, picture 2 will jump to slide 13 and so on.

1st question. Is it better to do this with a hyperlink or an action
button?

Now the problem part. Lets say Picture 2 is selected. The presentation
jumps to the question on slide 13. When answered the correct answer is
shown on slide 14, and we then go back to slide 10. At this point I
need Picture 2 to be 'greyed out' or have a line or something similar
over it to show that it's already been used. If the first option is
possible (greyed out) how would I do that, or if not what is the best
way to add another picture on top of the existing one to mark it as
crossed out?

Advice will be most welcome.
 
Hi Roger,

In short, it depends on your PowerPoint version. In PowerPoint XP or 2003,
it is best done with triggers. Do you have these version? Now there are all
sorts of permutations of this but that is the place to start.

--
Regards,

Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
www.powerpointworkbench.com

Australia
 
PowerPoint 2002 (XP) introduced Triggers that allow you to show a shape when
other shap is clicked. More information on how to set it up is available at
http://officeone.mvps.org/ppttips/show_shape_by_clicking_another_object.html.

You can use triggers in conjunction with hyperlink to:
1. Cross out the clicked shape (show a crossed out shape over it)
2. Navigate to the hyperlinked slide.

Both these actions would happen together. Also, make sure that the crossed
shape is not hyperlinked. This will ensure that a selected option cannot be
selected again.

- Chirag

PowerShow - View multiple shows simultaneously
http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html
 
In short, it depends on your PowerPoint version. In PowerPoint XP or 2003,
it is best done with triggers. Do you have these version? Now there are all
sorts of permutations of this but that is the place to start.
Click to expand...

I believe they're using 2000. Will triggers work in the Viewer, as I have both
XP and 2003, so perhaps could assemble it for them.

Thanks for your feedback
 
PowerPoint 2002 (XP) introduced Triggers that allow you to show a shape when
other shap is clicked. More information on how to set it up is available at
http://officeone.mvps.org/ppttips/show_shape_by_clicking_another_object.html.

You can use triggers in conjunction with hyperlink to:
1. Cross out the clicked shape (show a crossed out shape over it)
2. Navigate to the hyperlinked slide.

Both these actions would happen together. Also, make sure that the crossed
shape is not hyperlinked. This will ensure that a selected option cannot be
selected again.
Click to expand...

Thanks Chirag. I think they're using 2000, but as I have XP and 2003, maybe I
can assemble it for them and they can use the viewer to show it.
 
As Glen and Chirag said, triggers are clearly the best option for this,
but if you are not using XP or 2003, and your audience is not using any
version of the Viewer (but are using a full version of PowerPoint), you
can do what you want by hiding and showing the objects in VBA. My site
has some hide and show examples:

http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

Example 6.6 shows an example of this.

--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
 
David M. said:
As Glen and Chirag said, triggers are clearly the best option for this,
but if you are not using XP or 2003, and your audience is not using any
version of the Viewer (but are using a full version of PowerPoint), you
can do what you want by hiding and showing the objects in VBA. My site
has some hide and show examples:

http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

Example 6.6 shows an example of this.
Click to expand...

Thanks for that David. As it happens they're using XP. Got XP installed
and had it all set up in about 2-3 hours for 16 questions.

Thanks also to Glen and Chirag for your help.
 
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