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Powerful PowerPoint for Educators: Using Visual Basic for by David M. Marcovitz

By David M. Marcovitz

Learn to exploit PowerPoint in methods you by no means proposal attainable. Marcovitz exhibits how, offering useful guide for utilizing visible simple for functions (VBA) to create studying environments and academic fabrics that aid and improve scholar luck. With the common availability of PowerPoint (every replica starting with model 1997 comes with VBA integrated) colleges have the entire instruments they should create robust and interactive multimedia assets. the genuine strength of multimedia lies in its skill to interact scholars' minds. expert multimedia instruments are too tricky to profit, too pricey, or either, and even supposing many academics and scholars use HyperStudio or PowerPoint to strengthen multimedia tasks, those tasks usually lack precise interactivity. utilizing VBA with PowerPoint provides academics and scholars an obtainable strategy to simply create interactive multimedia assets and projects.

After introducing the fundamentals of academic making plans, the layout procedure, and the advantages of designing and utilizing multimedia, this ebook bargains the sensible wisdom you must create strong academic assets. discover ways to create tasks that come with photos, video clips, recorded voices, and hyperlinks to web pages, interactive menus, and quizzes and short-answer questions with automated user-feedback. the chances are unending. somebody with easy PowerPoint talents can use this booklet to create robust academic fabric for themselves, their colleagues, their scholars, or their very own children.

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If the slide show was written by you or someone you trust, choose Enable Macros. If not, it is generally a good idea to choose Disable Macros because some unscrupulous person might have included a virus in your file. Your students, when running your presentation, will have to choose Enable Macros. 3. Macro Security Dialog Box Conclusion You now have a basic understanding of what VBA is and how it fits into the world of object-oriented programming languages. You also know the relationship between VBA scripts and macro viruses (although you would never use VBA for nefarious purposes).

While the path to the file might help you locate the file (so you can copy it to your project folder), the dialog box is generally too small to show the entire path. Hypertext Links Before version 97, PowerPoint was simply a tool to present material. Presenters would stand up in front of an audience and go through slide after slide. ) could be incorporated into the presentation to add bells and whistles and to present information in a variety of formats. PowerPoint 97 changed all that. OK, PowerPoint 97 changed very little of that because most people still use PowerPoint for linear presentations.

The key is to make sure that the links work when you move your presentation to another disk or another computer. , move the whole folder). Linked files become a particular problem with sounds or movies taken from the Clip Organizer. On different computers with different operating systems (even different versions of Windows), even the standard clip sounds can be located in different locations. In addition, different computers have different clip sounds loaded on them. If you insert a sound from the Clip Organizer and the Hypertext Links 21 sound is linked, there is a good chance that the sound will not play on other computers.

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