Trivia Screen

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Mist Wall

Hmmm, can PowerPoint take data from a database or txt file and dynamically
link to create a screen with a question followed by 4 bulleted answers, and
then after a set time of a few seconds, all the answers disappear except for
the correct one? And then move on to the next screen and do the same . . .
 
There is no easy way to do this with PowerPoint unless you know VBA. This
would not be a difficult thing to do with VBA. Reading from a text file is
not difficult. Changing the text on a slide is not difficult. Either
setting the animation effects for that slide or using hiding objects after a
certain amount of time is not difficult. But it all requires VBA.
--David

David Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
 
I know very little about VBA, but I am willing to learn whatever I have to
learn to do this. This will be very useful for me. Any suggestions?
 
I would start with the Programming PowerPoint section of the PPT FAQ:

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/#PROGRAMMING_POWERPOINT

It has some basic information to get you started, including pointers to
resources. My book might be helpful, but I don't think you are going to find
an easy answer (i.e., a premade solution) anywhere. I know that none of the
examples in my book do exactly what you want (reading from a text file isn't
incredibly difficult, but I don't have any examples in my book that do that).

Good luck. As you explore VBA, post any questions you have here. There are
lots of helpful people here who are experts at VBA in PowerPoint.

--David

David Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
 
To add to David's suggestions, I'd think in terms of creating two slides for
each question rather than messing with animation.

First slide has the question and all answers, next slide has the question and
just the correct answer.

Slide one transitions to slide two automatically after NN seconds.
 
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