Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA

Pam Miller

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Security

The security must be set to Medium for the macros to work.

Check Tools, Macro, Security.

You should set it to Medium, then Save, Close, Open, Enable macros and then View.

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Opening a PowerPoint quiz made with VBA

You must enable the macro for the quiz to work.

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Now …

• Look at a PowerPoint quiz made with VBA• Save the ‘perfect quiz’ in read-only safe place• Consider and change the testing file• Play and adapt

Protecting the coding

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Save as PPS

If you save your work as a PowerPoint Show or PPS no one can get into the VBA coding and change it.

File, Save as

Attaching a macro …

To an object

To part of an object

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Attaching a macro to an object

Right click on the object. Select Action Settings, Mouse Click, Run macro, select macro.

It must be an object and not text, i.e. it must be a text box/object.

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Attaching a macro to part of an object

To attach a macro to part of an object, add a small object to the small area. Do it in colour, position it, add the macro and then adjust the settings removing the fill and the border.

You could first attach a macro to the large ‘wrong’ area and then another macro for the small ‘correct’ area.

VB Editor

Getting VB Editor

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Getting VB editorClick on View, Toolbars, Visual Basic. You need the Visual Basic Editor.Click on the Visual Basic EditorNow click on VBAProject, and then on Modules and then on Module 1 and the editing box appears.

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Getting VB editor another way

Changing …

Macro name

Message

Input box prompt

Title for input box

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Changing macro nameYou can change the macro name.

It must be one word with no spaces.

The name will change in the Run macro box.

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Changing the message

You can change the message.

Type it inside the quotation marks.

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Changing input box prompt

You can change the prompt. Type it inside the quotation marks.

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Changing title for input box

You can change the title of the input box.

Type it inside the quotation marks.

Calculations

Done for you

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Doing calculations – they have been done for you

Look at how the calculations are added and subtracted. They are based on the number of positive and negative responses.

If you do not want the quiz results do not attach the macro ‘Feedback’.

Moving forward …

Selecting the correct answer

On click

Not moving forward

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Moving forward on instruction from macro

Look at the coding where you indicate viewing the Next slide.

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Moving forward using action buttons

Using an action button allows you to specify which slide you wish to link to.

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No moving forward at allTo prevent any meaningless moving forward using a mouse or clicking, select Slide Show, Set Up Show, Browsed at kiosk.But if you do this no animation which needs a click will work, so if you have animations make them automatic.

Displaying message

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Displaying a message

An easy effective macro is to show a message. Copy the coding.

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Displaying a message

Be creative

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Be creative

Be creative