- The Secrets of the MsgBox. - 3.4 Ex ample Chart of the Parts of a PowerPoint Presentation. - Chapter 8 describes some more tricks that you can use, par - ticularly if you are ready to modify some of the ideas in the book for your own purposes. - Understand the scope of the pro ject/assignment.. - This is part of the power of plan ning. - By playing with ideas in the early stages of the design pro cess, you can narrow down what you want to do without throwing away large amounts of work.. - You can give your students help with all of the fol lowing:. - That is, they will be part of the PowerPoint file. - If you in sert a movie into a PowerPoint presentation, the movie is not part of the PowerPoint file. - “Op tions” (the place you made many of the changes to settings in the “Be fore You Begin” section of this chapter). - At the bot tom of the di alog box, you will see “File:”. - but ton in the “An chor” section of the di alog box. - that’s the Web address) in the box labeled. - you can al ways click on the but ton and drag it from the handles to change the size.. - If the text is too big to fit in the but ton, you can change the font size, or you can change the size of the but ton by drag ging from the handles.. - When a but ton has text, it is easy to change the ac tion set- tings for the text in stead of the en tire but ton. - If you see a flashing cur sor in the text, click on the but ton again, but be sure to click somewhere out side of the text. - Watch the shape of the cursor for the mouse. - Oth erwise you are clicking out side of the text. - at the bot tom of the Action Settings dialog box. - from the bot tom of the list.. - Once you have recorded a sound, it is part of the presentation. - It re mains part of the pre sentation even if you delete the icon that plays the sound.. - 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. - You can. - You might access the phone book by accessing a part of the book. - See Fig ure 3.4 if you are hav ing trou ble getting started. - Ex ample Chart of the Parts of a PowerPoint Pre sentation. - “AutoShape” if the ob ject is a drawn shape, etc. - left (the Project win dow and the Prop erties win dow) and a large blank area on the right of the screen. - You can use any of the drawing tools to change the size, shape, color, etc., of the button.. - If you do, left click anywhere on the but ton that is out side of the text. - First, pay at- tention to the space and un derscore at the end of the line. - In the meantime, you can still work with the InputBox procedure. - Alternatively, if you put the Dim statement at the be ginning of the pro ce- dure, only that procedure can use the variable. - that is, the scope of the vari able is the pro cedure. - Therefore, we want to add a Dim statement at the be ginning of the mod ule:. - The main structure of the VBA looks like this:. - We changed the name of the pro cedure. - We changed the name of the variable. - Most of the time, we will use method 2, associate the pro cedure with a but- ton. - Don’t worry if you can’t fig ure this out. - To move around within your presentation, you can use any of the fol lowing:. - With the first statement, you can go to any slide in the presentation. - The Se crets of the MsgBox 67. - 'Ask if you are sure you want to quit. - One of the best ways to do this is with a but ton on the ti tle slide. - If you have lots of ob jects of the same type, you can click on the type and num ber of an ob ject and the ob ject will be highlighted on the right.. - If the ob ject is n’t one of the other types, it is prob ably AutoShape. - where NUM is replaced by the num ber of the slide. - Let’s add a sim ple square in the middle of the screen:. - Finally, we set some properties of the shape. - refers to the text on the third shape of the current slide.. - Now that you have access to that part of a shape, you can do whatever you want to the text in that shape. - However, this is awkward if you are us - ing PowerPoint as part of the dis cussion. - For ex ample, if you wanted to change to blue the color of the text in the en - tire third shape of the current slide, you could use the fol lowing code:. - as part of the paragraph. - This is one of many things that you can change about the font of the text. - You can also set the Size of the text to a par ticular point size. - You can change the Name of the font, but you should be ware. - This will pop up a MsgBox with the num ber of characters in the third shape of the cur rent slide.. - the new paragraph symbol, to the end of the first paragraph. - change the picture of the apple pie to something else. - Fi nally, you might have to ad - just some of the shape numbers. - Finally, if you want that per centage score rounded off, you can use this:. - This is just the tip of the iceberg with what you can do with tests. - But if you don’t un derstand the script, you can still add questions. - If you want to un derstand the code, read on.. - 9 is the size of the font, so you can choose a dif ferent number for a smaller or larger font. - Because we stored the but ton in the vari able homeButton , we can use that variable to change the at tributes of the button. - PrintablePage , in stead of the Feed back procedure from ear lier exam- ples, will be tied to the “How Did I Do” but ton. - For ex ample, you can change the color of the fourth shape on the second slide to magenta with:. - Notice in the figure that some of the but tons do not use VBA. - They are set to False in the Ini tial ize pro ce dure be cause no part of the tu torial has been completed. - Add more pro cedures (such as ReturnToMenuFromPart4 and ReturnToMenuFromPart5 ) to re turn to the menu from the added parts of the tutorial. - It is one of the things that al lows for in - teraction. - Next i says to go back to the beginning of the loop and in crease i . - If you want something to happen after a short delay, you can use the following procedure:. - For ex ample, if you wanted to hide an ob - ject named “Pic ture 6,” you can use:. - If you want to ac- cess the slide, such as to hide and show ob jects on it, you can use the name in place of the slide num ber. - You can do ev erything you want with numbers. - You can ei ther:. - If you have put the an swer in the text of the but ton, you can use that to get the answer that was chosen.. - If you have a lot of questions, change the font size of the text box in the PrintablePage pro cedure to 9 or smaller.. - in DoingWell and DoingPoorly if you want. - The heart of the pro cedure is RandomQuestion . - You might want to add another array to keep track of the questions so you can add the questions and an swers to your slide.. - Remember that they don’t have to change any of the VBA to do this.. - That is be cause you will create an other shape on top of the first shape. - If you go back into Edit View in PowerPoint, you can see that you have two shapes by dragging one of the shapes out of the way.. - For ex ample, you might put a MsgBox at the beginning of the procedure:. - See if you can find the er ror. - This will work most of the time. - If you have a block of lines that you want to indent, you can high light them and hit Tab (or shift-Tab if you want to un-indent them).. - You can prob ably fig ure out that it is the slide num ber of the slide to go to. - Most of the time, this is a good thing. - You can’t fix a bug that you don’t find. - If you plan to use PowerPoint for later pro jects, you can use a pro ject like this one to in troduce your stu dents to some of the features of PowerPoint.. - Most of the pro ject uses traditional PowerPoint features