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

Ex er cises to Try
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Create a simple tu torial with a ti tle slide, a menu slide, and four
content sections. Put a button on your ti tle slide to go to the
menu slide. Link the menu to each of the content slides. In clude
a but ton on each of the con tent slides to re turn to the menu. Put
your tu torial in Ki osk mode and save it as a PowerPoint Show.
See Fig ure 2.15.
Figure 2.15. Slides for Tu torial with Menu
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Create a simple mul tiple-choice quiz with three ques tions. Cre -
ate a slide for each ques tion with but tons for right and wrong an-
swers. Wrong-answer but tons should link to a slide that says
“Wrong” and has a but 
ton that re 
turns to the “Last Slide
Viewed.” Right-answer but tons should link to the next ques tion
and play a pos itive sound (such as applause or your recorded
voice say ing “good job”) . Put your quiz in Kiosk mode and save
it as a PowerPoint Show.

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In tro duc ing Vi sual Ba sic
for Ap pli ca tions
In tro duc tion
In Chapter 2 you learned some of the tra ditional mul timedia features of
PowerPoint, such as pic tures, sounds, hyperlinks, and ac tion but tons. These are
important features of PowerPoint, and even if you be come a VBA ex pert, you
will use these features over and over again. But you might be won dering what
VBA is and what it can do for you. This chapter explains what VBA is, describes
how VBA fits into the world of ob ject-oriented com puter languages, and re-
lieves your concerns about VBA and computer viruses.
Vo cab u lary
• Class
• OOP
• In her i tance
• Pa ram e ter
• Macro vi rus pro tec tion
• Prop erty
• Method
• VBA
• Ob ject
• Vi rus
• Ob ject-ori ented 
• Vi sual Ba sic for Ap pli ca tions
pro gram ming lan guage

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