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Create a quiz in PowerPoint:demo of Technique #7 from my e-book

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Using hyperlinks

Hyperlinks are a great way to connect your presentation to other slides, presentations, documents, and the Web. You can use hyperlinks for the following:

To enable you to jump to other slides quickly To switch to another presentation To open another file, such as a Word document or Excel spreadsheet To display a [...]

Link to other presentations and return to the original presentation

For greater flexibility when you present, you can create a main presentation that contains a menu and link the items in the menu to other presentations. When you decide to cover a topic, you click on its menu item to go to the presentation on that topic.

When you’re done covering that topic, [...]

Hyperlink to a specific slide in another presentation, or specific location in another file

If you would like to hyperlink to another presentation, you might not want to link to the first slide. Suppose you want to start with slide 3?

Caution: If you’ll be traveling, put the second presentation in the same folder as the current presentation. Then be sure to take the second presentation with [...]

Create invisible buttons

In a discussion with Dr. Pavel Samsonov, a professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the topic of invisible buttons came up. I had encountered them before, so I thought I would explain.

Invisible buttons are AutoShapes with no fill and no line that have a hyperlink attached to them. You use [...]

Use timing, animation, or sound in a presentation with hyperlinks

The problem: If you create a timed presentation that automatically advanced after a certain number of seconds — usually done in a kiosk situation where viewers view the presentation on their own — and include hyperlinks to allow viewers to review the presentation, after they click a hyperlink to go backwards, the presentation [...]

Create a WebQuest in PowerPoint

A WebQuest is an activity usually created by teachers for their students that leads students to answer inquiries using Web-based resources. There’s an emphasis on using the information rather than just gathering it. Therefore, students should have to use analytical and critical-thinking skills to solve a problem or question.

WebQuests were developed at San [...]

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